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>> The biggest part of this announcement is the bios updates for 300 series motherboards...

A great upgrade for the old Mellori-ITX running a 2400G. https://github.com/phkahler/mellori_ITX

BTW my system is limited to 4K30hz on the HDMI for reasons I never figured out. Haven't found a good Displayport->HDMI adapter to fix it, and not sure why the CPU/mobo combination won't do it on HDMI. I don't do gaming on it so not much of a problem, but I'd prefer 60hz.

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Is it because the mainboard is not HDMI 2.0 or does not support DSC (Display Stream Compression?) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Refresh_frequency_limits_...). Raven Ridge supports 2.0, but it's down to the mainboard to also support that.

That linked table indicates even 4k30fps (at 4:4:4) requires 6.18Gbps, while the motherboard page here: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AB350N-Gaming-WIFI-r...

Under the HDMI section indicates up to 5Gbps video bandwidth (in addition to 8 channel audio). So on the surface it sounds like I shouldn't even get 30fps, but I do. Thank you for the info, it looks like the board isn't up to the task via HDMI so I will make the effort to find a Displayport adapter. That PC has a LOT of life left in it and I'd like to get the most out of it ;-)

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