MSI adds latest AMD BIOS Updates for MSI AM4 motherboards

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/21/2018 08:13 AM | source: | 6 comment(s)

MSI released updated BIOSed to support AMD 2nd Generation Ryzen Desktop Processors, which also includes security updates since recent public disclosures have brought to the forefront the importance of security.

To ensure any system powered by MSI AM4 motherboards is operating securely, AMD® and MSI have been working around the clock to prepare updated processor microcode and release new BIOS updates regarding mitigations for Google Project Zero (GPZ) Variant 2 (Spectre) for Microsoft Windows users, which will be available for download. This BIOS version is with AMD AGESA 1.0.0.2a to fully support AMD 2nd Generation Ryzen Desktop Processors. More information from AMD® on the updated microcode can be found here.

MSI strongly recommends its users to update their systems by downloading and applying the latest BIOS. It is recommended to review AMD’s Security Advisory, for more information, including appropriate identification and mitigation measures.

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#5548602 Posted on: 05/21/2018 09:49 AM

About time, will test X470 Gaming Pro Carbon AC this evening.

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#5548703 Posted on: 05/21/2018 04:08 PM

Got it several days ago for my x370...The 1.0.0.2a AGESA bios completely eliminates the performance slowdowns I saw with 1.0.0.1a (which included the microcode, too) relative to the Spectre2 variant microcode. I wrote it up in more detail in the AMD mobo & cpu forum here.

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#5548706 Posted on: 05/21/2018 04:13 PM

This may be another series of updates. X470 got 1.0.0.2a in middle of April. And now there is new set of BIOSes.

Edit: Notes to my MB reads:

Description
- Improved PCIe RAID card compatibility.
- Improved PCIe M.2 compatibility.
- Improved Intel Wifi compatibility when using Raven CPU.

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#5550102 Posted on: 05/25/2018 03:32 PM

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#5550114 Posted on: 05/25/2018 03:55 PM

I bought the MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon AC, is one of the very few boards with 8 SATA ports which I need.

Also one of the only MBs that lists my Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200 16GB sticks of memory as supported. Though is only lists as for 2x 16GB sticks.... will see how it likes 4 of them soon enough!

I'm feeling pretty confident ^^
I have same. BIOS sux. It is worst BIOS I have seen from MSI. Secondly, their other "Gaming Pro Carbons" used to have external clock gen for OC. Not this one.
Thir "Memoty Try It!" feature tries some dumb timings which are so high that memory will not boot. Tighter manual timings work just fine.

And even with that newest BIOS there is still that nasty bug which forced me to use XFR2. Bug does:
If you have manually set up clock + voltage for CPU cores, it sometimes decides that your multiplier is on auto and XFR2 is enabled. But because it does not reset your Core voltage, you are in for crash. And this setting lasts till you go to BIOS and change your multiplier to something else and then back to your desired one.

2700X still plays games in awesome way even without having all cores on 4.2GHz, but I really dislike that MSI puts CPU up to 1.5V for single threaded boost.

And they have some weird voodoo in memory timings. If you aim for 1T, you may have to enable geardown and powerdown.

And worst is that some "auto" values are not equal to manually setting same. So while auto does enable something, it will behave differently if you select manually "Enabled".

Well, maybe worst is that they do not gray out options which are disabled as consequence of you using something that overrides it. So you can spend hours trying to tweak value which has no effect on anything as it is not used.

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