BIOS upgrading

[Troncoso]

how do you know when you need to upgrade your BIOS. and does an upgrade do anything significant for your system? oh, and how can i tell if i have flash BIOS?

 

[konzerte]

only upgrade if you face problems... or if the new bios gives a performance boost, or better cpu support... read the release notes for the bios file.

nowadays a flash chip is a standard. so i think your motherboard already has one.

 

[Troncoso]

is there just a latest bios. or are there specific ones for different mobos and cpus?

 

[Geoff]

Newer BIOS revisions usually just add support for newer CPU's, and occasionally may add a few options in the BIOS and/or fix some bugs. However don't expect a performance boost with a new BIOS.

 

[Cromewell]

However don't expect a performance boost with a new BIOS.

If you are upgrading from an initial release BIOS there might be improvements for overclocking stability and what not that will indirectly give you a performance boost but with everything stock I would agree that it's very unlikely that you will get a performance boost.

BIOS files are specific to a motherboard.