Asus has simply seemingly revealed an important element within the advertising supplies for a brand new motherboard, which is that the BIOS for one in all its new AM5 boards will help next-gen AMD Ryzen CPUs primarily based on the brand new Zen 6 structure. The brand new space-age Asus B850M AYW Gaming OC board is designed for overclockers trying to squeeze as a lot efficiency as potential out of their system, and a advertising picture suggests it’ll help new AMD CPUs properly into the longer term.
AMD is rumored to be making massive modifications to each core counts and clock speeds with Zen 6, with leaks circulating a few 24-core AMD CPU within the vary, in addition to 7GHz clock speeds. Importantly, it now appears as if you’ll merely flash the BIOS in your current AM5 motherboard and pop in one in all these new CPUs whenever you wish to improve, with out having to overtake your entire system.
The advertising supplies have been noticed on Chinese language retailer JD.com by tech website IT Dwelling, and there is a part that clearly states “Zen6 64MB BIOS” in one of many photographs. That is a big capability for a BIOS, suggesting that there will likely be broad CPU help throughout a number of generations, but it surely’s the “Zen6” bit that actually stands out – it means this motherboard not solely helps at the moment’s AM5 CPUs, however may even help new ones primarily based on the brand new Zen 6 structure.
The lengthy lifespans of AMD’s CPU sockets have given the corporate a marked benefit over Intel in terms of launching a brand new vary of CPUs. The AM4 socket lasted by way of 4 generations, from first-gen Ryzen CPUs by way of to the 5000-series X3D CPUs nonetheless round at the moment, and you might even flash the BIOS on an outdated first-gen Ryzen motherboard and put one of many new CPUs in it.
Comparatively, the LGA1851 socket utilized by present Intel Arrow Lake CPUs is predicted to be retired for the corporate’s new Nova Lake CPUs, not lengthy after Intel had already ditched its LGA1700 socket. Meaning you may in all probability want a complete new motherboard to improve to Nova Lake, whereas homeowners of current AMD Ryzen 7000-series CPUs and upward could properly be capable of improve to a Zen 6 chip after merely shopping for a brand new CPU.
Zen 6 remains to be a good distance off, although. If you happen to’re trying to improve your CPU now, check out our information to purchasing the perfect gaming CPU, in addition to our greatest gaming motherboard to discover a residence for it (and probably future CPUs too). If you happen to really need the perfect of the perfect, then take a look at our latest AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D evaluation, as this chip handles each gaming and productiveness extraordinarily properly.
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