Im planning on buying a ASUS ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi (‎90MB1E00-M0EAY0) along with a 14th gen cpu and while I know the mobo chipset is compatible with the CPU, Im unsure as to wether I would be able to use the CPU with the mobo out of the box or if it would require a BIOS update (which would require to have a compatible CPU at least for the first time to boot and update with) .

I sadly cant afford another CPU or have one borrowed solely to update BIOS for a single time.

Official ASUS site for this mobo seems to say its compatible with 14th gen CPUs, but I dont know if that means compatible as in out of the box compatible or wether it needs a BIOS update.

Thanks!

  • GumshoosMerchant@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It doesn’t matter either way, the board you’re looking at has BIOS flashback (don’t need a CPU to do BIOS flashback), so pop it in and see if it works. If it doesn’t, you can still flash your board to the newest BIOS that works.