I was playing with part pucker last night and it gave that warning for rysen CPUs and mobos needing flashing.
The worrying part is that it said that in order to do the flashing, you'll need to have a different, recognised CPU installed to be able to do it :/
Placed the order after giving MrsD. a heads up. By waiting a day I saved another 5-bucks on the GPU! Now I've got to figure out a case (there are a couple of candidates home), and a Windows. Looks like I'm going to have a busy Easter.
Something to do with spectre/meltdown?
I've wondered that too. It's totally useless. If you've got a suitable CPU you're probably not looking to upgrade.
Thought that might be an Onion article for a second.
Yep, that was part of the article too, get some parts off a friend and flash it that way - I didn't read it properly though, and hadn't realised you needed a different CPU to get it done. That's a bit of an arse then. :C
Also, where can I get that part pucker game? It sounds most appealing.
The AMD page says you can also RMA the motherboard.
Apparently they send the 'flashing' cpu without needing a credit card. Wonder how many of those they'll be seeing back...
Speaking of which wait for the impending collapse of the bitmining economy...