November 13, 20241 yr Recently installed a 9800x3d on a msi mag x670e tomahawk mb. Runs well, but I have not updated the bios. Using the bios that came installed on the mb dated from July. Looking at the msi bios downloads , the latest bios that mentions the 9800x3d is labeled beta. Should beta versions of bios updates be avoided? thanks
November 14, 20241 yr 15 hours ago, SetSpeed said: Recently installed a 9800x3d on a msi mag x670e tomahawk mb. Runs well, but I have not updated the bios. Using the bios that came installed on the mb dated from July. Looking at the msi bios downloads , the latest bios that mentions the 9800x3d is labeled beta. Should beta versions of bios updates be avoided? thanks Updating the BIOS as any tech will tell you, can be fraught. The only reason I would update the BIOS on my board would be if there was some new technology advantage i.e. I updated last year to enable the rBAR feature. So unless that applies to you I would leave well alone. AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 4.2 32 gig ram, Nvidia RTX3060 12 gig, Intel 760 SSD M2 NVMe 512 gig, M2NVMe 1Tbt (OS) M2NVMe 2Tbt (MSFS) Crucial MX500 SSD (Backup OS). VR Oculus Quest 2 Windows 11 25H2 YouTube:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC96wsF3D_h5GzNNJnuDH3WQ 2k+ Videos & Streams BATC and FSFO FB Group:- https://www.facebook.com/groups/1571953959750565 Flight Sim First Officer (FSFOv6) and SoFly Beta Tester Reality Is For People Who Can't Handle Simulation!
November 16, 20241 yr Commercial Member I think "fraught" is pushing things. Most reasonable UEFI setup programs have a built-in utility to let you update the firmware from a flash drive and it's quite reliable. If you have a brand-new CPU, you almost certainly will need to upgrade once or twice to get all of the kinks out. My B650E board was pretty unusable out of the box until I got a newer AGESA on it. Cheers Luke Kolin I make simFDR, the most advanced flight data recorder for FSX, Prepar3D and X-Plane.
November 16, 20241 yr Yeah, that mentality is counter-productive, especially when it comes to using new products on older boards. You literally can't even use Ryzen 9000 CPUs in the 600-series boards unless they are BIOS updated. I've run plenty of beta updates in the past months due to the recent release of the 9000-series, meaning my previous X670E board saw a lot of updates. I personally wouldn't have a problem with them, never un into a bad BIOS updates, ever but if your system is working and you don't currently need any of the functionality offered in the BIOS updates, you can wait until a stable release hits. As Luke says, given that you're on a CPU that just hit the market on the previous iteration of boards, I would absolutely BIOS update when possible. A lot of AGESA updates to focus on stability and functionality. [MSI MPG X870E Carbon | 9800X3D (PBO +200Mhz / -20 Offset) | Corsair 64GB DDR5 (Custom Timings) | RTX 4090 Founders Edition (Undervolted) | WD SNX 850X 4TB + 4TB | Antec Flux Pro]
November 17, 20241 yr Author Thanks guys. Rolled the dice and updated to the beta version. So far all is good. Coming from a 8700k and 2080. Fantastic msfs 2020 results with the 9800x3d and a 4080s.
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