AMD has formally communicated on the arrival within the subsequent few days of a bios (AGESA 1.0.0.7) that the reds will make obligatory to be able to put an finish to the issues and the controversy on a possible overheating of Ryzen 7000. For the document, the story started to “ignite” the web when a number of customers of Ryzen 7000 X3D had the disagreeable shock to see the demise of their new processor or to see the socket of their motherboard irreversibly broken. A state of affairs brought on by an extreme temperature rise. AMD has simply introduced that the AGESA 1.0.0.7 BIOS may have extra than simply voltage limitations and that it’s obligatory for customers to replace their motherboards to be able to keep away from all of the Burnout issues reported on-line since just a few days.
The overheating of some Ryzen 7000 revives dangerous reminiscences at AMD
AMD says that given the severity of the state of affairs, motherboard producers have launched BIOS patches in current hours, these if are nonetheless based mostly on the previous AGESA 1.0.0.6 firmware and limits the SOC voltage to 1.3 V … But that these updates are solely a short lived answer. The actual “repair” BIOS isn’t anticipated till May 6, when all of AMD’s main motherboard companions are anticipated to launch their first official AGESA 1.0.0.7 BIOS. In addition to a voltage motion, it’s going to appropriate the driving of the interior mechanism of Ryzen 7000 processors that’s supposed for use for thermal safety by decreasing the CPU energy when a temperature threshold is reached.
Two essential factors stay to be verified: firstly, whether or not the brand new Bios definitively erases this danger of {hardware} destruction and, secondly, whether or not the answer doesn’t have a unfavourable affect on efficiency, because it might act on voltage and frequency. This is clearly an commercial that AMD would have appreciated to keep away from…
AMD’s communication on the long run Bios
We have discovered the reason for the issue and have already distributed a brand new AGESA that implements measures on some AM5 motherboard energy rails to forestall the CPU from operating past its specification limits, together with a cap on SOC voltage at 1.3V. None of those modifications have an effect on the power of our Ryzen 7000 collection processors to overclock reminiscence utilizing EXPO or XMP kits or to extend efficiency utilizing PBO know-how.
We count on all of our ODM companions to launch new BIOSes for his or her AM5 boards within the coming days. We suggest that each one customers go to their motherboard producer’s web site and replace their BIOS to make sure that their system has the newest software program for his or her processor.
Anyone whose processor could have been affected by this challenge is inspired to contact AMD Customer Service. Our customer support workforce is conscious of the state of affairs and is treating these circumstances as a precedence.”
Official AMD communication through Anandtech
