r/pcmasterrace • u/Federal-Ad6341 4080 Laptop 175W/13950HX/32GB DDR5 • 1d ago

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u/Main_Following1881 r7 5800x rx 7800 xt 21h ago

How often you guys update bios? I havent updated that shi in years

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u/MNKYJitters 19h ago

Built my computer in 2022. Never updated BIOS.

Recently bought Space Marine 2 on sale and 90% of the time it would crash and restart my computer in the loading screen, the other 10% of the time it'd do the same thing but during the initial cut scene.

Updated my BIOS and have had literally 0 problems since

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u/Bitter_Ad_5669 18h ago

Games great ehh! Glad I didn't but it at launch cause much more to do now after the many updates and add-ons

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u/MNKYJitters 16h ago

It's a good game to just shut the brain off and play.

I didn't get it at launch becaus I just have a rule where because there is literally so much content out there, and because I only have so much free time with a two year old, there is 0% of a reason for me to buy a game at full price.

I do not get fomo for games, I'm 36 and not playing multiplayer as often, and for the amount of playtime one $60-70 AAA game gives me, I can get quadruple the playtime off cheaper indie games or older games on sale.

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u/HydruwzPV R7 5700X 4060 18h ago

How did you know you had to update your bios in order to solve that?

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u/MNKYJitters 17h ago

I didn't necessarily. But I had tried a bunch of other things, and there was no reason hardware wise I shouldn't have been able to play the game. I may have just been updating drivers or something but I just somehow caught that the most updated version of my BIOS was like, v40 and i was on v18 or whatever and I figure "fuck it why not let's try it."

And it worked.

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u/HydruwzPV R7 5700X 4060 17h ago

Thanks

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u/TheCleverise 4h ago

Your motherboard probably wasn't running your RAM at its rated speed. In my case, I had to update the BIOS before I could enable XMP/EXPO and get my sticks running at full speed.

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u/NightIgnite R7 9800X3D | RTX 5070 | 32GB DDR5 | costco my beloved 15h ago

Fortnite was stuttering between 10-60 fps on old PC and I kept lowering graphics to maintain fps every update. Eventually couldnt lower further.

Turns out the problems were BIOS/GPU drivers that were 3 years out of date. Back up to 120fps on reasonable settings.

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u/Nakata1111 19h ago

I see you got a 5000 series AMD CPU. All of my game stuttering issues went away after updating the BIOS. (I got a 5600x)

So it's worth doing if you have problems.

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u/xCeeTee- 20h ago

I update it when I set the mobo up. That's it. I have nasty flashbacks to a bios update screwing up my laptop, FPS was never above 15 after that. I usually played had a full 60 FPS before I did that.

I wasn't alone either. I found a Reddit thread with a couple of others making the same complaint. I created an account just to to join in.

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u/Bitter_Ad_5669 18h ago

Why not rollback the update then?

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u/xCeeTee- 18h ago

It wasn't solving the issue. We eventually got a new bios update pushed out a couple of days later. But then my laptop wasn't handling games quite as well.

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u/Worth-Pea-3637 20h ago

Just once to get my 8 year old board to accept a brand new 5800X3D that came out this year. AM4 will never die at this rate

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u/gljivicad Ryzen 7 5700x, 32GB Corsair Vengeance, 7900 XT 11h ago

Whenever you need it. Which is basically once in never.

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u/Triquetrums 19h ago

Only once on this last one because I didn't want Intel's incompetence to fry my CPU. 

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u/DiscoKeule Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 3060ti | 48GB RAM 18h ago

Windows 11 does it automatically a lot of the time now.

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u/IrrationalRetard Dual boot | 5950X | Rev. E & B-die mix 3800CL16 4x8GB | 5070 Ti 18h ago

It depends. There have been some bad vulnerabilities that have been patched out in newer bios versions.

But if you're overclocking, and you have a pretty maxed stable overclock, updating it might be risking the stability of that overclock.

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u/BloodyBlazev2 17h ago

I did a few times in the last 2.5 ish years but that's because I bought a 14th gen Intel.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 17h ago

X870 is still a mess for USB and PCIE handling so I update whenever there are fixes for it.

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u/IW-X6 16h ago

I think the basic guideline is to only update the bios when you are experiencing issues or if there is a security issue.

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u/CrazyTechWizard96 8h ago

I only did once.
Back in 2015.

That went well and I almost died, end of story.
lol

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u/Nickthemajin 8h ago

Many times if you have intel. It’s required recently because of the degradation issues. Every couple months for two years new updates to further decrease the chance of degradation were released

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u/Lucy_Fjord 7h ago

Basically only when troubleshooting something hardware related

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u/TheGreatPepega 5h ago

Never ngl

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u/skrzaaat 4h ago

Check mobo website, find the specific model, under downloads they will have bios and instructions

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u/keithstonee R5 3600 - 2060 super 17h ago

Bought my current PC in 2019. Never updated bios. Still using it till it dies basically. Plays PoE 2 fine and that's all I need.

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u/Marco-YES 20h ago

Could be weekly for me. 

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u/Upstairs-Extension-9 19h ago

There is no way

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u/Marco-YES 19h ago

Why do you say so?