AMD’s rocky ride continues as Ryzen 7600X CPU firmware goes seriously wrong

AMD has run into another sticky patch on the PC hardware front, this time regarding a problem with the Ryzen 7600X processor and firmware which really threw a spanner into the works of the CPU in some cases. As Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab) reports, the issue is with the AGESA 1. 0.

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4 firmware, and to be fair to AMD, that firmware was pushed out in beta – the twist being that when rolling out this update via their own channels, some motherboard manufacturers failed to label it as a beta.

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