The manual for this board says that if it says "AMD Ryzen 3000 desktop ready" on the front of the box, then you should be able to drop a 3rd gen Ryzen CPU in and be good to go. But my board came with a older generation BIOS installed. I had to return the board to PBTech to get the BIOS updated (under warrantee) - thanks to PBTech for that. Also the board came with onboard graphics disabled by default. I don't know if that was related to the BIOS issue or not, but be aware of that if you are tryinng to set up a new machine without a graphics card. Once up and running, the board has (so far) been running well. But due to frustration c...view more