Will an AMD B550 chipset motherboard work with an r9 5900x ?

[ian]

I'm building an new PC on PC part picker, but it's saying that The motherboard may require an update and the update may mean that the CPU won't work with it anymore .
The exact motherboard I'm planning on using is a MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard

Can you advise ?

[Krull]

Don't worry. In short, you need to install the newest bios revision from MSI before you install the CPU in the socket.

Fortunately for you, that motherboard can be updated with an USB. MSI probably has a guide you can follow somewhere. You do not need another CPU for this motherboard, like you would many others.

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B550-A-PRO#down-bios

[Vault Hunter 101]

Ask it on hardware forum, people there will help you better.

From my (very limited) knowledge it means that you may need BIOS update, it's not hard but the problem is you would need another CPU as a placeholder to launch the PC and update it. It says it might require update because you nevere know what version of BIOS is shipped, you may recieve that motherboard with version 1.0 of BIOS that doesn't support your CPU and won't work or you may get one that is updated and will work smoothly.

But anyway you should head to hardware forum, if anybody reading this sees any mistakes please correct me for the sake of the OP, like I said I have very limited knowledge when it comes to PC builds

[ian]

引用自 Vault Hunter 101：

Ask it on hardware forum, people there will help you better.

From my (very limited) knowledge it means that you may need BIOS update, it's not hard but the problem is you would need another CPU as a placeholder to launch the PC and update it. It says it might require update because you nevere know what version of BIOS is shipped, you may recieve that motherboard with version 1.0 of BIOS that doesn't support your CPU and won't work or you may get one that is updated and will work smoothly.

But anyway you should head to hardware forum, if anybody reading this sees any mistakes please correct me for the sake of the OP, like I said I have very limited knowledge when it comes to PC builds

Can a mod move this post automatically ?

[DieegoPeri]

Yes, it will work and it's a very very good motherboard for the price, specially for the 5900X. It shouldn't need an update, because the B550 is new gen chipset.

[Vault Hunter 101]

引用自 ian：

引用自 Vault Hunter 101：

Ask it on hardware forum, people there will help you better.

From my (very limited) knowledge it means that you may need BIOS update, it's not hard but the problem is you would need another CPU as a placeholder to launch the PC and update it. It says it might require update because you nevere know what version of BIOS is shipped, you may recieve that motherboard with version 1.0 of BIOS that doesn't support your CPU and won't work or you may get one that is updated and will work smoothly.

But anyway you should head to hardware forum, if anybody reading this sees any mistakes please correct me for the sake of the OP, like I said I have very limited knowledge when it comes to PC builds

Can a mod move this post automatically ?

You mean the topic? Yes they can move them to other forums but I doubt they will do it as they don't come here often