Is a bios update worth it?

Does the update give you anything new?
Or improve something?
If so probably yes
Your board looks to have q flash
Should be able to roll it back in worst case
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Does the update give you anything new?
Or improve something?
If so probably yes
Your board looks to have q flash
Should be able to roll it back in worst case
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I've no idea. I'll read the release notes. The question is more out of the principle of keeping things fully updated.
 
mickyflinn said:
Absolutely in this case as there have been overheating issiues with AMD and bios updates have fixed this.

Bonus is your motherboard has Q Flash Pluss so if that's ngs faul you can reflash using that button.
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Ok thanks. I'll lookup the process for flashing it.
 
Personally I always keep my bios up to date and would say it's even more important on AMD builds. The AM5 platform is still maturing and fixes, performance boosts and compatibility tweaks are always being released with new bios versions. For example the latest for that board features that new Agesa that gives the memory boost plus there are optimization tweaks for the 7800x3d so I would say it's well worth doing. With USB flashback it's very unlikely to have a unfixable board should a bios flash go wrong.
 
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I'd recommend you have at least F6, for the reason mickyflinn stated:

  1. Checksum : CB94
  2. Update AMD AGESA 1.0.0.6
  3. Support DDR5 48GB/24GB high capacity DIMMs
  4. Fix TPM 2.0 potential vulnerabilities
  5. Follow AMD guidance to limit max. SOC voltage to 1.3V for Ryzen 7000 series X3D and non-X3D CPUs. Certain EXPO/XMP memory performance may be impacted due to this change.
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With the latest bios, they also say:

Performance optimized for Ryzen 7000X3D series processors
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Whatever that means.
 
I only update if i absolutely need to, usually if im testing RAM and want better overclocking results or stability or support for a new cpu. I hate doing it otherwise as it wipes all my overclock settings and there's too many settings to remember :cry:.
 
Jay85 said:
I only update if i absolutely need to, usually if im testing RAM and want better overclocking results or stability or support for a new cpu. I hate doing it otherwise as it wipes all my overclock settings and there's too many settings to remember :cry:.
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I've not changed any settings. As the CPU support for X3D chips I'll do it.
 
gjbf1 said:
I've not changed any settings. As the CPU support for X3D chips I'll do it.
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If you've not messed with the bios too much then yes do it if you need to. Otherwise i usually just avoid updating the bios unless it goes **** up.
 
Yeah it's a PITA that saved profiles
Won't work
If you update the bios
Especially if you've really tinkered with
Ram settings
And cpu overclocking/curve optimiser etc
Usually I photograph all my settings
Then re apply them after update
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Yeah it's a PITA that saved profiles
Won't work
If you update the bios
Especially if you've really tinkered with
Ram settings
And cpu overclocking/curve optimiser etc
Usually I photograph all my settings
Then re apply them after update
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It straight up resets the board to factory so there's nothing, not even saved profiles lol. Only thing i can do is screenshot everything and hope i've not forgotten any settings. Also have to retest the settings as well incase there's new stability issues, its a really big pita!
 
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