der8auer shows X399 boards may support AMD EPYC CPUs after BIOS mod

Posted on Tuesday, January 30 2018 @ 13:03 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Famous overclocker der8auer from Germany illustrates it's possible to get an AMD EPYC processor running in a consumer motherboard. In the video clip below, he shows an EPYC CPU running on the ASUS X399 Zenith Extreme motherboard. However, the system stopped booting during the BIOS memory checks. This shows that with proper BIOS support, it should be possible to get EPYC working on the AMD HEDT platform.

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