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!

  • ancient_tiger@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Hi, I also bought this motherboard with 14700k. Do you need a 13th gen processor to update the bios? How do you do it in a proper way? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.