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Of course it's recommended to update your motherboard driver, but what about your bios? Is it that critical? If everything is working ok?
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How Important is it to update your bios?
- Thread starter Theocnoob
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The only reason I personally would see the need to update the BIOS is if you have a known issue the new BIOS fixes or for new CPU support. Sometimes you can get better OC's with a new BIOS, sometimes they are worse. I just don't like taking the risk of something screwing up for no reason. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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Unless you need to for some reason (cpu support, having issue that a new bios fixes), it's generally a good idea to leave it alone.
That said, I just updated my r3e bios for giggles, but it should help next time i slap the pot on there and cool it down to 78*c below zero. That's my justification
That said, I just updated my r3e bios for giggles, but it should help next time i slap the pot on there and cool it down to 78*c below zero. That's my justification
I'm lazy, I like to load up the windows utility and do it there. All those other ways take too much time
Jojo me too, Yaiiiii The last time i do it in windows with asus update
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+1 for windows
Useless to upgrade if those do not concern you... Duh
However, I found most ASUS (if not all) update great. They fixed a lot of issues I had with the mobo!
Useless to upgrade if those do not concern you... Duh
However, I found most ASUS (if not all) update great. They fixed a lot of issues I had with the mobo!
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Flashing the BIOS from within the GUI is definitely not recommended. You have the highest chance of corrupting the BIOS when flashing this way. The preferred method is to flash via a bootable thumb drive, floppy, CD/DVD, or Q-Flash (Gigabyte's BIOS flash utility embedded in FLASH ROM). If at some point you successfully flashed the BIOS from within Windows or other OS, consider yourself lucky.
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Last time I updated a bios was to support larger hard drives. This was quite a while ago, not much of a problem nowadays. Just read the documentation to see if you really need it.
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I usually only update the bios when there are issues or the newest bios has some added features. So I find myself updating a lot more earlier in a motherboards life in the market. Other than that I dont update.
