MSI posted a video showing how to install Ryzen 7000 series processors on a Socket AM5 motherboard. The video featured an engineering sample of a new generation 16-core flagship chip. Such a chip, according to VideoCardz, has already been seen in the database of the MilkyWay@Home distributed computing network back in January of this year.

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The Ryzen 7000 engineering sample shown in the MSI video is marked 100-000000665. The existence of the same sample became known at the beginning of this year. Then, the following engineering samples of new generation AMD desktop processors were found in the database of the MilkyWay@Home distributed computing network:

• AMD Eng Sample: 100-000000665-21_N [Family 25 Model 96 Stepping 0] – 16 cores / 32 threads;
• AMD Eng Sample: 100-000000666-21_N [Family 25 Model 96 Stepping 0] – 8 cores / 16 threads.

Both were entered into the database between 21 and 24 December 2021. In other words, these are very early engineering samples.

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In the MSI video, it can be noted that the sample 665 was actually produced back in 2021.

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As for the MSI instructions for installing the Ryzen 7000 processor in the Socket AM5 socket, this process is nowhere simpler and not much different from installing Intel processors. Although for fans of AMD chips who have never encountered processors in an LGA design, the instruction may be useful.

For ease of installation, AMD has added special cutouts to the textolite of the chip, which indicate which side the processor should be placed in the socket. The AM5 processor socket itself has special protrusions that correspond to the cutouts on the chip. The Ryzen 7000 installation video can be found below.

It is worth noting that you need to install chips in LGA-type connectors with great care. Still, straightening accidentally bent legs on the processor, as it was with the previous Ryzen and not only, is much easier than in an LGA-type processor socket.