ASRock is the first company to support AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs on the X370 platform.
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.
The company's boards are equipped with higher-end 300-series chipsets. Due to BIOS changes, it is possible that the X370 boards will now support Zen 3 processors.
And that means that older X370 motherboards may now tolerate Zen3 processors such as the Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X, Ryzen 7 5800X, and Ryzen 5 5600X. The ASRock X370 Pro motherboard is the first to reap the benefits of this update. The trade-off that upgraders must make is that ASRock will no longer support AMD Bristol Ridge APUs in their motherboards (launched mid-2017). In addition, while ASRock has not stated that it will eliminate support for previous-generation Ryzen processors, it does urge that you do not update if your computer is equipped with a Pinnacle, Raven, or Summit Ridge processor.
Even once these BIOS upgrades begin to roll out, X370 motherboards and the lower-tier 300 series boards are still not the ideal choices for AMD's current-generation processors, according to the company. The platform upgrades that users have experienced with new 400- and 500-series motherboards are not going to materialize with a new BIOS, and as AMD has warned, some of the top-end Vermeer processors "will not deliver the performance that the product is capable of," due to factors such as PCIe Gen 4.0, PBO, SAM, and improved power delivery features on newer designs, among other things. Despite this, users should be able to keep the majority of the performance gains achieved over prior-generation processors. Following the release of this upgrade, ASRock's footsteps are likely to be followed by those of other manufacturers such as Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI, among others. As we observed last year, several of these other vendors were willing and able to update their A320 motherboards to support Ryzen 5000 processors quickly and efficiently.
It will be interesting to see if other motherboard manufactures adopt the same strategy of fully removing Bristol Ridge support in order to pack the necessary code into the BIOS in order to support Vermeer processors. Maintaining an eye out for changes over the following few weeks might be worthwhile if you're still using an AMD 300-series motherboard and hankering after a Vermeer processor.
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Still no uppdate for asrock x370 killer sli ac.
last bios is 2020...
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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
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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.
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This is good news. Other brands should do the same.
It's "always" good to have options and possibilities.