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Which is more scary for you? Flashing your motherboard bios or GPU bios? POLL

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GPU. It's most likely more expensive

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GPU. It's most likely more expensive

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On one hand, the GPU is more expensive so...yeah.

 

On the other hand, if you fuck up flashing your motherboard BIOS your whole computer won't work...soooo...

 

Both.

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All my latest toys have multiple bios physical switches so no real worry...

 

I do remember being nervous when I flashed a 465 to a 470...

 

however, I will say mobo because sometimes you can recover bad flashed gpus by forcing the bus... no luck with a mobo.

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I would say a GPU as it often is the most expensive piece of hardware in a pc I have and to replace it could be costly.

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Chuck Norris updates his Bios during Thunderstorms. 

 

@JEman99 could you add a "I don't worry" option to the poll

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GPU because...

 

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DUAL BIOS CHIPS!!!!

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Why not both

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Used the ASUS software to update the VBIOS on one of my  290x's. Bricked it, Luckily I had another 290x to take an image from.

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For some reason the idea of flashing the motherboard bios seems more scary. Simply because....it's the motherboard....everything's connected to it.

Although most decent motherboards usually offer dual bios chips iirc...

Furthermore, I see less reason to flash a gpu bios than a motherboard bios

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Chuck Norris updates his Bios during Thunderstorms. 

 

@JEman99 could you add a "I don't worry" option to the poll

no, no he updates it by grabbing a bolt of lightening, forcing it to accept his usb stick with the updated bios and then throws the bolt into the computer case and scares it into booting up like nothing happened.

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I have to say GPU. I would do it the moment I get it. If it fails, I can return it.

Many motherboard these days, have the ability to recover itself. They have the ability to recover by inserting a USB flash drive with a BIOS file inside, or have a secondary BIOS chip to recover from. Graphic cards have none of that.

The reason to upgrade the GPU firmware is to make it GOP ready, in other words, make it UEFI full support, so that you can boot the computer just as fast as with the Intel integrated graphics, where it's instant. You don't need to wait several seconds for the image to show on the screen, and have the boot process starts from that point on.

I don't get why GPU manufacture don't put a switch or jumper somewhere to switch between the firmware. Where the first is for legacy system operating with a BIOS, and the second mode, uses a different firmware chip which is designed for modern computers that support UEFI.

I get that firmware chip are expensive, but I don't know about you guys, I would gladly pay 10$ more for this feature, even thought it would probably cost 3-5$ to implement (includes R&D).

Margins are low for hardware manufacture, I think it will be a nice selling point. "Here is our new GeForce 980/970, with full UEFI support for fast boot, and still work with legacy BIOS based systems." I think it would be pretty cool.

What do you guys think?

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Both, since I have no experience in either... I might end up needing to update the bios on an H81 mobo (if I can't afford Z97 or H97) should I manage to come up with the funds for the G3258 biuld I have planned...

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Yeh, I've got a Dual UEFI BIOS for my motherboard, and it's $100 less. 

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Please tell me I'm not the only one who doesn't know what a "GPU BIOS" is....

I know motherboards have a BIOS, but graphics cards do too.....

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GPU because of backup mobo bios.

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Please tell me I'm not the only one who doesn't know what a "GPU BIOS" is....

I know motherboards have a BIOS, but graphics cards do too.....

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You can refer it as firmware or vBIOS.

Every programmable processor in your computer has a firmware of some kind. Some are upgradable, others not.

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Am i the only one who hasn't flashed a new BIOS to their hardware at all? :D

 

I don't see why i should do this, except maybe a hacked GPU BIOS in order to unlock a 290X from a 290 or to allow higher voltages to go into your card. THAT is scary as shit but a regular BIOS flash... meh, why? :D

who cares...

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Dual bios ftw. I don't even give a shit these days. If it fails I just flip a switch. 

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GPU from the list. Even a difference in revision number for same model can leave you with a pretty expensive brick. I'm not even going to talk about the flashing tools from Windows for GPU .. RivaTuner is not exactly reliable and does conflict with many drivers.

Same thing applies for routers, RAID cards, storage controllers.. If you're not sure what you are doing, better ask someone with expertise before taking the plunge.

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mobo, many times you can still recover the gpu when you have a secondary one, and i don't have dual bios :P

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GPU definitely because of the price difference. If I brick my motherboard then I only lose the motherboard. If I brick my GPU I lose the GPU and the water block (unless I decide to buy a 670FTW/680 again which would be stupid in my mind).

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