PC upgrade to R5 3600

bbrano123

New Member
Hi, I would like to know what do you say on upgrade of my budget pc

From:
PC case - Lenovo ThinkCentre M29p
Mobo - Lenovo MAHOBAY
Intel i5 3570
GPU - AMD RX 570 4GB
8GB RAM DDR3
SilentiumPC 450W
1TB HDD od WD

To :
Mobo - ASRock B450M Pro4
CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3600
GPU - I will keep my 570 for now cause i think its still not a bad card
RAM - Patriot Viper Steel Series 16 GB KIT DDR4 3200 MHz
PSU - Gigabyte P650b
1TB HDD from WD
Crucial MX500 500gb SSD

PC case I haven´t choosen one yet, but if you know some good cheap case under 50€ you can let me know.
Thanks for you opinions and advices. :)
 

bbrano123

New Member
Seems decent bro should be significantly faster than that i5.
Thank you and yeah it should be. The case I´m probably gonna buy is Zalman Z1 Neo. But I´m still not sure what motherboard to choose. Is it worth to spend a little more and buy an ASRock B450 Pro4 (the ATX one) ? Or do you have other ideas?
 

DavidG

Active Member
Be careful of using any AMD series 400 motherboard chipset and Ryzen 3rd gen CPUs.
Some AMD B450 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Matisse CPUs. Upgrading the BIOS may require a different CPU that is supported by older BIOS revision - this link explains.
Unable to Boot New Desktop System Configured with AMD 3rd Generation Ryzen™ Desktop Processor, and AMD Socket AM4 400-Series Motherboard

Another user on this forum has run into exactly this problem

Consider either of the following which do not require CPU to update BIOS:

MSI B450 Tomahawk
MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon or any of the gigabyte b450 mobos that have Q-flash plus technology.
 
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bbrano123

New Member
Be careful of using any AMD series 400 motherboard chipset and Ryzen 3rd gen CPUs.
Some AMD B450 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Matisse CPUs. Upgrading the BIOS may require a different CPU that is supported by older BIOS revision - this link explains.
Unable to Boot New Desktop System Configured with AMD 3rd Generation Ryzen™ Desktop Processor, and AMD Socket AM4 400-Series Motherboard

Another user on this forum has run into exactly this problem

Consider either of the following which do not require CPU to update BIOS:

MSI B450 Tomahawk
MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon or any of the gigabyte b450 mobos that have Q-flash plus technology.
Yeah I read about that some older mb's do need a BIOS update but I found that this asrock mb is now manufactured with BIOS version that's "AMD 3000 ready" so no need to update but even if I had to I would manage to update that bios. But thanks for your warning and advice.
 
Be careful of using any AMD series 400 motherboard chipset and Ryzen 3rd gen CPUs.
Some AMD B450 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Matisse CPUs. Upgrading the BIOS may require a different CPU that is supported by older BIOS revision - this link explains.
Unable to Boot New Desktop System Configured with AMD 3rd Generation Ryzen™ Desktop Processor, and AMD Socket AM4 400-Series Motherboard

Another user on this forum has run into exactly this problem

Consider either of the following which do not require CPU to update BIOS:

MSI B450 Tomahawk
MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon or any of the gigabyte b450 mobos that have Q-flash plus technology.
Yeah, I had that problem with my Tomahawk going to a 3600
Thankfully you can flash the bios using a usb stick on a port on the back but still a bit of a pain
 
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