Best long term Bios support?

Ice Tea

Ice Tea

Ice Tea

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Looking around the forums the last couple of months with all this spectre , meltdown and Intel management exploits i keep seeing people mention Asus and Asrock as having the best Bios support.

Would you guys agree or disagree?

Thanks
 
Disagree on the Asus front. Despite Intel releasing fixes for the vulnerabilities to the manufacturers there are no updates for the Haswell platform from Asus and Gigabyte and I doubt that they will ever release one. They both abandoned the platform years ago.
 
I have noticed a lot of negative comments towards Gigabyte even with the latest boards that they only ever seem to update anything when they are forced too and support have started making excuses that they no longer have the tools for boards older than a couple of years.
 
Msi are superb.
I've had 8 bios revisions for my x299 build.
They even gave me a bespoke bios early on when raid 0 was giving me boot issues with uefi.
Fantastic support.
Similarly my msi z270 build has had 7 bios revisions.
 
Ice Tea said:
I have noticed a lot of negative comments towards Gigabyte even with the latest boards that they only ever seem to update anything when they are forced too and support have started making excuses that they no longer have the tools for boards older than a couple of years.
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So far gigabyte have been one of the first to roll out ryzen updates and only vendor to have UK Mobo RMA and flash boards. Also like Asus publish Beta bios for people to try .
I know Asus ROG forum is highly active with the Beta Bios stuff which is good to see
Pretty sure Asrock and MSI also do the same .

Either view having lots of bios updates as good, pushing updates or poor as they didn't get it right the first time around .

I know 8 packs fav wording is, why do you update bios if nothing is wrong ....

Nice to hear the above getting custom Bios for Raid issue
 
Gigabyte are ok in my book, UK support and they rolled out some updates pretty quickly, as best can be expected after the Spectre /meltdown scare.

Their support has been good too, when I've contacted them directly.
 
mattyfez said:
Gigabyte are ok in my book, UK support and they rolled out some updates pretty quickly, as best can be expected after the Spectre /meltdown scare.

Their support has been good too, when I've contacted them directly.
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I wouldn't call your Gigabyte Z170 K3 as being at the point of long term support. :)

orbitalwalsh said:
https://www.kitguru.net/components/...alts-spectre-patch-plans-for-some-older-cpus/

Ouch
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Intel is only going as far back as Ivy Bridge for the management engine exploit patch so it's a complete mess.
 
I've never found any of them that great over the years for firmware support - they all have their instances of good and bad but in almost every case it has been less than ideal.
 
My MSI Z97m has been pretty great for updates, there’s been loads.

Their website is super easy to find your downloads. Their software has always been pretty janky for me, but you’re not forced to use any of it.

So chuffed with them it’s probably what I’ll get for my next big upgrade (Probably cannonlake).
 
pastymuncher said:
Disagree on the Asus front. Despite Intel releasing fixes for the vulnerabilities to the manufacturers there are no updates for the Haswell platform from Asus and Gigabyte and I doubt that they will ever release one. They both abandoned the platform years ago.
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Agree with this (for Asus), no BIOS update for my board, so i'll not be buying them again.
 
Just a couple of days ago, Asus finally released an updated BIOS for my H170 with the fixed microcode.

However, the BIOS for my Z170 is still the one from early January which is known to cause problems with Kaby Lake CPUs.

So they release one rather too soon and one rather late.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Agree with this (for Asus), no BIOS update for my board, so i'll not be buying them again.
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Isn't your board still under warranty? I've seen reports of other high-end in-warranty models for which Asus are refusing to issue a fix. I'd be inclined to invoke the warranty but the tricky thing is that it is actually the CPU which has the manufacturing fault.
 
I think with the AM4 platform companies are going to have no choice really as newer generation CPU's have to be supported on older boards. Which will require bios updates.
 
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