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Interesting on your x470 experience. I bought a X470 Taichi U from Scan UK in early February, and the 3600 chip worked. I was wary of the issue you raise, but
by cturner 6y ago
Interesting on your x470 experience. I bought a X470 Taichi U from Scan UK in early February, and the 3600 chip worked.
I was wary of the issue you raise, but lucked out, and figured the issues you talk of had washed through. Maybe the warehouse staff who boxed it looked at the order and gave me a recent unit.
What action could AMD take to improve the situation? I wanted to go to AMD because I expect to get strong upgrade options from it - certainly to a 3950x, and possibly further. But - a complication of that is that older motherboards need BIOS updates.
I am surprised at how slap-dash the motherboard is. It supports ECC ram - great. But BIOS configuration is a confused mess.
- user5994461 6y agoNot familiar with Scan UK but I would bet they don't resend RMA boards endlessly like Amazon sellers might do.
- m-p-3 6y agoSome motherboards supports flashing BIOS through a USB thumbdrive without a CPU, IMO this kinda of problem would be a non-issue if all of them did this.
- scurvy 6y agoTo some degree, yes. However, that assumes a functioning BIOS release is available and works...many incremental releases are no functioning despite release notes saying otherwise. Many times, you can't downgrade the BIOS either. So you're stuck with a bad board waiting for a beta BIOS...fun times! The workstation/server platforms ARE better. Having a BMC to flash/recover things is much more reliable.