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Hi,

 

New user and wanted to ask about something that has been on my mind. Sorry if posted in a wrong way.

 

is there anyway for me to keep my asus tuf gryphon z97 armor edition up to date with some of the new features that are on the market?

Would be nice to not have to buy a whole new system, especially when i don't really need anything better at the moment.

 

I don't game that much anymore and my computer is running just fine for how i'm using it.

It would be nice to be able to keep it in as good of a state as i can.

 

Might sound dumb and i know a lot of you might scream "pci-e cards!" ,

But I still want to ask and see what you fine people would recommend.

 

If you feel there is something i should add or do to keep it as update as possible please tell me.

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2 minutes ago, beat_the_echo said:

Might sound dumb and i know a lot of you might scream "pci-e cards!" ,

Yup, this, or sometimes you can use USB. It depends what features you think you're missing/you need.

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10 minutes ago, beat_the_echo said:

Hi,

 

New user and wanted to ask about something that has been on my mind. Sorry if posted in a wrong way.

 

is there anyway for me to keep my asus tuf gryphon z97 armor edition up to date with some of the new features that are on the market?

Would be nice to not have to buy a whole new system, especially when i don't really need anything better at the moment.

 

I don't game that much anymore and my computer is running just fine for how i'm using it.

It would be nice to be able to keep it in as good of a state as i can.

 

Might sound dumb and i know a lot of you might scream "pci-e cards!" ,

But I still want to ask and see what you fine people would recommend.

 

If you feel there is something i should add or do to keep it as update as possible please tell me.

What do you want to add?

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10 minutes ago, beat_the_echo said:

If you feel there is something i should add or do to keep it as update as possible please tell me.

you tell us......

name the thing you want updated.

10 minutes ago, beat_the_echo said:

my computer is running just fine for how i'm using it.

one the harder things on the forum isn't fixing or upgrading computers...... it's trying to explain to the owner that all that matters is the machine does the tasks that it needs to do.

getting into the mentality that you HAVE to upgrade or stay current regardless of how well your current machine works is mostly just consumerist propaganda that companies have been pushing since the 1950s. The fear of being "not current" in tech.

Just use your computer. Update an aspect of it when theres a problem or a need.

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Well, PCI/PCIe cards are a good start.

 

What are the "new features on the market"? Pointless, convoluted graphical BIOSes? Nothing has really changed in the motherboard features space since 2006, just some new ports. 

No need to upgrade for the sake of upgrading. If your computer does what you need it to, then great! If it doesn't, buy a card to make it do that.

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Only thing that is "missing" is nvme storage, but if its running fine now, there is no need to upgrade

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1 hour ago, Latvian Video said:

Only thing that is "missing" is nvme storage, but if its running fine now, there is no need to upgrade

That board doesn't have a M.2 slot but it does support NVMe boot so that is something that could be easily added with a PCIe card. Though like you said if it's running fine there is no need to upgrade. The difference between NVMe and SATA SSDs isn't that big in normal use.

 

Another thing mentioned in this BIOS update is support for a USB 3.1 (10Gbps?) add-on card, but for upgrading to that to make sense you'd need to have some USB devices that benefit from speeds faster than USB 3.0 5Gbps. Same thing for network cards, you'd need a network faster than 1Gbps for any 2.5Gbps or faster NIC to make sense.

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5 hours ago, Latvian Video said:

Only thing that is "missing" is nvme storage, but if its running fine now, there is no need to upgrade

Doesnt even matter/barely matter to tbis day for games either as a good sata drive vs a top spec nvme drive is barely slower (one or 2 exceptions)

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