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Gigabyte B360 HD3 - apply latest BIOS update?

stockhausen

stockhausen

stockhausen

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I am building a system based on a Gigabyte B360 HD3 (LINK). The currently installed BIOS is F2, dated February 23rd 2018. The latest BIOS is F5, dated June 21st 2018.

Amongst other things F5 claims to improve the Windows boot time - which I would quite like.

Of more interest however, it claims to "Update [the] CPU microcode" which I take to mean that it addresses the Meltdown and Spectre flaws. I would like to be sure that the system is (relatively) immune from these.

I know that if a system is working properly, the advice is NOT to flash a later BIOS firmware. None the less, can anyone see any problem with updating the BIOS?
 
I have flashed the BIOS on various motherboards in the past. This system doesn't include a floppy disk drive and I am not sure how to flash the BIOS without a DOS Boot Disk.
 
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