I don’t think necessarily, no. I’ve had mine for nearly a year and despite a few unexpected shutdowns (might have been a power supply issue though, I don’t think it was thermal) it works perfectly. I haven’t overclocked at all really though, I did the automatic one and got something like a 0.2GHz boost. Left it at that, I don’t feel any pressing need to push this chip; it’s plenty fast for what I need at stock.
Realistically, everyone should probably be updating their BIOS when building a new computer. Often, early updates have the biggest fixes, right?
We all should probably be updating our mobo BIOS periodically, at least for the first years or two when there are still significant potential updates/fixes, but I don’t blame anyone who doesn’t; it’s not as straightforward as Windows Update doing everything for people.
You’re probably fine. AMD blamed motherboard makers because one maker in particular, ASRock, has some issues with an old BIOS. When it’s just one company, and that company already has a fix, then yeah, it’s the motherboard maker.
What AMD and Intel can do is set guidelines on how far motherboard makers can go to tweak some performance out of the chips. IIRC, Intel was historically better at this than AMD. They had specific documentation sent out and made sure it was followed. If a customer wants to unlock everything and void their warranty, fine, that’s on them. You just have to make it clear when that line has been crossed.
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I JUST bought one of these, am I fucked?
Edit: Why does there also seem to be so many issues with this generation of hardware?
I don’t think necessarily, no. I’ve had mine for nearly a year and despite a few unexpected shutdowns (might have been a power supply issue though, I don’t think it was thermal) it works perfectly. I haven’t overclocked at all really though, I did the automatic one and got something like a 0.2GHz boost. Left it at that, I don’t feel any pressing need to push this chip; it’s plenty fast for what I need at stock.
If you have an ASRock mobo, update the bios. Otherwise, you should be fine.
Realistically, everyone should probably be updating their BIOS when building a new computer. Often, early updates have the biggest fixes, right?
We all should probably be updating our mobo BIOS periodically, at least for the first years or two when there are still significant potential updates/fixes, but I don’t blame anyone who doesn’t; it’s not as straightforward as Windows Update doing everything for people.
You’re probably fine. AMD blamed motherboard makers because one maker in particular, ASRock, has some issues with an old BIOS. When it’s just one company, and that company already has a fix, then yeah, it’s the motherboard maker.
What AMD and Intel can do is set guidelines on how far motherboard makers can go to tweak some performance out of the chips. IIRC, Intel was historically better at this than AMD. They had specific documentation sent out and made sure it was followed. If a customer wants to unlock everything and void their warranty, fine, that’s on them. You just have to make it clear when that line has been crossed.
IIRC Asus had some issues with literally frying CPUs (scorch marks in the actual socket) with early AM5