AMD will lend you an older processor to update your BIOS to support a Ryzen APU

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An A6-9500 costs around $60. AMD isn't just giving these things away—it's only intended to be used long enough to flash your BIOS, and once you swap it out for one of the new Ryzen APUs, AMD wants the older chip back. Interestingly, AMD only wants the actual processor back, and not the heatsink ...

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