I contacted them inquiring about a BIOS update to support Milan on this board. The tech handling my inquiry (William Lee) indicated that they will not support Milan on this board, but instead will support on the [much more expensive] ROMED8-2T. It seems this is probably a "business" decision to force users into more expensive products. I have 3 of these boards that are used for Distributed Computing (BOINC) on CPU with multiple GPUs (6-8 GPUs on each one). I have no need for PCIe4.0 (but do need at least PCIe 3.0 x8) so these boards are affordable and suit my needs. I wanted to swap some of them to Milan chips when they became more widely available, but it seems Asrock doesn't care to offer support. There should be nothing but a BIOS update that would prevent this board from working with Milan.
If you have one of these boards and want Milan support, I'd recommend contacting them and indicating as such.
If you have one of these boards and want Milan support, I'd recommend contacting them and indicating as such.
Hi Ian,
Thank you for your patience! It is confirmed by the BIOS engineering team that this board model will not support Milan CPU, thus there won’t be any BIOS update to give support to Milan. The closest candidate you may consider is ROMED8-2T, there will be BIOS update to support Milan for this board. Thank you for your understanding!
Best Regards,
William Lee