ASRock is the first motherboard manufacturer to add support for AMD's Ryzen 5000 processors to its boards equipped with the higher-end 300-series chipsets, as promised by AMD's David McAfee. ... ASRock is the first company to support AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs on the X370 platform.
This is good news. Other brands should do the same. It's "always" good to have options and possibilities.
I know that this is from a Toms Hardware article but ASRock is NOT the first. MSI done this in November LOL https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/msi-300-series-mainboards-get-amd-ryzen-5000-bios-support.html
thanks to intel's 12th gen x370 buyers can enjoy the platform longevity they were promised. too bad the cpus are still overpriced but at least they're getting support.they'll be cheaper in a year or two.three generations of cpus on a single socket is really good.maybe 3D cache versions too,that'd be awesome. I rememeber before getting the z490 I thought about x370 fatal1ty board,it was selling at an absolutely great price for a high end board.Was gonna use it with 1600AF and get a zen3.It looks like I wouldn't have made a bad choice eventually,but the wait would be really long.
Just looking at the official BIOS releases or the unofficial releases as well? Cuz the "rogue" BIOS were released by ASROCK at the end of 2020...
I feel like ASRock deserves some credit here, If I was someone still holding onto a perfectly good X370 board, this would definitely be great news. This reminds me of back in the day when we were transitioning from AGP to PCI-E, ASRock was one of the few, if not the only one who released a board providing both an AGP and PCI-E slot. I've never built a personal system using an ASRock board, however I've built some clients computers using ASRock boards, and I've never seen a failure. Cool to see companies collaborate & accommodate those who don't upgrade their motherboard all that frequently.
I would have kept using my X370 Taichi, since it supports Zen 2. However, a couple usb ports straight up failed so I just have the board stored away for backup purposes.
not in the market for that but awesome news guys, I went from 3000 to 5000 and the difference is huge for gaming, way better