Without a doubt, one of the most important issues that the Ryzen 7000 series suffered from was long boot times on any computer, even those who use high-performance SSDs. There is an explanation for this and it is the whole checking and loading process that the BIOS has to do when we turn on the device.

Fortunately, AMD has finally decided to take action on this matter and released a new update that introduces the AGESA 1006 microcode and is able to almost half the startup time from a PC based on the AM5 platform and equipped with a Ryzen 7000 processor. The first performance tests confirm this enormous improvement and leave us with very interesting values.

Computers with ASUS ROG X670E HERO motherboard and BIOS 0805 (AGESA 1003) may take almost a minute to complete the boot process and the same device updated to BIOS 1004 (AGESA 1006) will complete the boot process in just 30 seconds. That means, as I told you earlier, it started twice as fast.

This new BIOS is also important because it introduces full support for the new AMD Ryzen 7000X3D, which is why we need to have it installed if we want our motherboard to recognize these processors correctly. Major motherboard manufacturers They already offer the corresponding update on their websiteand this one brings other important improvements that make it important and recommended.

For example, in the case of the GIGABYTE X670E AORUS Master motherboard, a model that we had the opportunity to test just with the launch of the Ryzen 7000, The F10a BIOS is the one that loads the AGESA 1006 microcode, and comes with other important improvements, such as support for DDR5 memory modules with capacities of 24 and 48 GB and fixes vulnerabilities at the TPM 2.0 level.

Updating the BIOS is something that still causes some fear in users, but the truth is this It’s a much easier and safer process than a few years ago. Motherboards have evolved a lot in this regard, and some BIOSes bring such interesting changes that it is definitely worth taking a few minutes to update them. The case of the AGESA 1006 update would be a good example.

It is not necessary to update the BIOS all the time, this also needs to be clarified, in fact the computer can work without problems for the whole life even if the BIOS is never updated, but if we keep this attitude we will end up missing important improvements which can improve the performance, support and security of our PC.