AMD has officially communicated on the arrival in the next few days of a bios (AGESA 1.0.0.7) that the reds will make mandatory in order to put an end to the problems and the controversy on a potential overheating of Ryzen 7000. For the record, the story began to “ignite” the net when several users of Ryzen 7000 X3D had the unpleasant surprise to see the death of their new processor or to see the socket of their motherboard irreversibly damaged. A situation caused by an excessive temperature rise. AMD has just announced that the AGESA 1.0.0.7 BIOS will have more than just voltage limitations and that it is mandatory for users to update their motherboards in order to avoid all the Burnout problems reported online since a few days.

The overheating of some Ryzen 7000 revives bad memories at AMD

AMD says that given the severity of the situation, motherboard manufacturers have released BIOS patches in recent hours, those if are still based on the old AGESA 1.0.0.6 firmware and limits the SOC voltage to 1.3 V … But that these updates are only a temporary solution. The real “fix” BIOS isn’t expected until May 6, when all of AMD’s major motherboard partners are expected to release their first official AGESA 1.0.0.7 BIOS. In addition to a voltage action, it will correct the driving of the internal mechanism of Ryzen 7000 processors that is supposed to be used for thermal protection by reducing the CPU power when a temperature threshold is reached.

Two crucial points remain to be verified: firstly, whether the new Bios definitively erases this risk of hardware destruction and, secondly, whether the solution does not have a negative impact on performance, since it could act on voltage and frequency. This is obviously an advertisement that AMD would have liked to avoid…

AMD’s communication on the future Bios

We have found the cause of the problem and have already distributed a new AGESA that implements measures on some AM5 motherboard power rails to prevent the CPU from running beyond its specification limits, including a cap on SOC voltage at 1.3V. None of these changes affect the ability of our Ryzen 7000 series processors to overclock memory using EXPO or XMP kits or to increase performance using PBO technology.
We expect all of our ODM partners to release new BIOSes for their AM5 boards in the coming days. We recommend that all users visit their motherboard manufacturer’s website and update their BIOS to ensure that their system has the latest software for their processor.

Anyone whose processor may have been affected by this issue is encouraged to contact AMD Customer Service. Our customer service team is aware of the situation and is treating these cases as a priority.”

Official AMD communication via Anandtech