When can we expect another Bios that offers further compatibility with more ram modules, thx.

Just noticed Asrock have released a new bios for their x399 platform which includes the Agesa 1.0.0.4 update, any idea Gigabyre when we’ll see the update?

I STRONGLY disagree with you on your notion that AMD should stick to the low-mid grade components, as if they "could seriously make some big buck by doing so".  AMD has been struggling to stay alive and has had several unprofitable years, because they have much smaller market share (having less economies of scale means spreading overhead cost like R&D over less product) and because of the unfortunate stupidity of sticking primarily to the LOWER-MARGIN, low-end market.

[According to the financials, AMD has been unprofitable for each of the last 5 years AMD Income Statement from Morningstar for last 5yrs.  AMD's profit history going back to 2006 here.  But we should be grateful to AMD, as I will explain.]

One of the main reasons Intel won out is they abused their marketing power; you should read the AMD sabotage reddit for instance, (or just google Intel AMD sabotage).    AMD had a better top-end chip some years ago, but was unable to capitalize.  When you let go of the cutting edge, than you also become identified as a commodity product.  AMD was also dependent on a foundry that was lagging Intel, so was unable to utilize same power efficiency gains from process shrink.  Intel exploited their high-end market position to frequently charge higher prices across the board, (meaning higher price even at same performance point), pressuring motherboard makers to prioritize Intel, because after all Intel was more important.

[Long discussion of intentional compiler crippling, which is used to build some major software, including, notably many benchmarks.  
Some explanation of AMD's plight with dirty competition.   Another explanation from Linustechtips.  An explanation and collection of articles from reddit user.  And one more.]

Despite all this, AMD has made a very respectable push to stimulate the CPU market and to make the HEDT market more compelling.

The most distinct area where your assertion is clearly WRONG is in the higher core-count chips, high-end market.  Intel, being alone in the high-end, was able to (and still does) charge a HUGE premium for their higher end.  The prices for available x86 CPUs above quad-core (from either company) have DRASTICALLY changed this past year and will continue this coming year.  This is all primarily to AMD competing again in the high end market.  Albeit, because it is harder to code efficient parallel code, at the moment many programs don't benefit from high core counts, so at the moment it will benefit those with multiple major tasks running simultaneously or run things that parallelize well like Cinebench, multiple compute tasks, video encoding, multiple VMs, etc.  But BECAUSE high core counts will finally become more commonplace, that means better parallel program architectures will become the norm at last, which will mean software will finally change to be able to take advantage of high core counts, and we can continue our march past the wall we reached in Moore's Law.

I hope that Intel and AMD will make a fair-minded cooperation with their new joint venture utilizing AMD integrated graphics with an Intel CPU.

My main two points:
1) AMD sticking primarily to the low-end market was a BAD idea and almost destroyed the company; don't let yourself become a commodity - ...high-end designs should feed into future mass-market designs and protect and support brand image, if done right.  Brand image enables having comparable profit margins that enable developing the next generation of technology, working out bugs with motherboard manufacturers more quickly, etc.  Not having a single highly rated motherboard for X399 on Amazon is seriously tragic.

...AMD needs to be more aggressive when Intel marketing spin gives Intel a holier image than it deserves and needs to work more aggressively with motherboard manufacturers to ensure customer's expectations are met and bugs (including RAM configs) ironed out as quickly as possible; even though higher-clocked memory makes much less difference than the clock #'s suggest, it really roils customers when their high-spec'd RAM cannot meet the official printed capability.  Motherboard manufacturers shouldn't be touting such big numbers (marketing ppl??), if it's such a huge chore to find compatible RAM.  Maybe Motherboard makers can work with pcpartpicker so that compatible RAM shows limitation notes automatically when selected, is automatically matched against the QVL list for selected motherboard, and spits out the appropriate pricing availability, that we love pcpartpicker, so much for.  Where is the innovation in the product chain?  Seriously too much friction.

2) The Intel - AMD duopoly is important, even if lopsided.  As many of you know many of the instruction sets for the 64-bit updates came from team AMD, as did the pressure for higher core counts recently.  It has also kept Intel on its toes; it makes a better Intel.  I hope that AMD gets its fair share of the market and the support from the motherboard makers it deserves;  I hope Intel plays a cleaner fight, it already has vastly greater resources at its disposal.  None of us really want a Wintel monopoly, it would not be a good thing in the long run.

...Intel has an unfair holy image.  Basically, every enterprise and high-end Intel CPU that had Active Management Technology under the false hope of higher uniform enterprise-wide security were open for super-user exploit to any code running behind the firewall, as we know the list is very long for vulnerabilities in other systems (Windows or Wifi routers), that it would not take much for a sophisticated team to pilfer virtually every single corporation in the world.  Read this: Intel patches remote hijacking vulnerability that lurked in chips for 7 years 

So.  Please don't dump on AMD.  Support the Threadripper platform (and Ryzen/Epyc platform), and encourage the motherboard makers to do the right thing for the ecosystem, the world of technology, and the customer.  

I will receive my mobo soon. should I instant update to F3G , disable IMMOU  , enable XMP and everything will be good ? 


Also I have Software RAID 0 with 2x Samsung SJ1TB  ,   so they are not bind to the mobo, they will work as long the windows alive. 

I'm not going to reinstall windows, I'm going use SYSPREP so the windows will do the Drivers installation just like you install new windows but all your data will be safe.


It worked with windows 7, but I'm not sure how it will be with windows 10.   so I'll make image with Macrium Reflect and put it on other SSD then use Sysprep then put it on the AMD machine .


We cannot disable the WIFI adapter from BIOS ? WHY   I want to be able to disable WIFI and LAN Adapters on the mobo, I HAVE NO NEED for them at all !

Please add it ASAP on the new firmware.

This platform is still full of issues the updates have stopped and i see no info coming from Gigabyte.  I'm seriously regretting going with Gigabyte for this build.  Asus updates come regularly and the staff are heavily involved on the forums.  I guess you know where i'm going in future.

I also think this is a bad joke here. I definetly regret going the Gigabyte road... 

Someone please help.......