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

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GPU because...

 

GIGABYTE FOR THE WINNNNNNNNNNN

 

DUAL BIOS CHIPS!!!!

And thank goodness for that, somehow my PC nearly got bricked when the power went out! luckily I bought a 970A-D3P with dual BIOS chips, and the other kicked on! I still worry, because I don't know whether the BIOS chips reset, so I don't want to risk it...

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And thank goodness for that, somehow my PC nearly got bricked when the power went out! luckily I bought a 970A-D3P with dual BIOS chips, and the other kicked on! I still worry, because I don't know whether the BIOS chips reset, so I don't want to risk it...

so i'v got a question, so what happened? did it boot up and say "the first chips is screwed, were using the second!" or what?

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GPU... because I've never had a graphic card that required a bios update.

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Unless they both have dual bios, then the motherboard's worse, if that breaks I can't use the PC

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considering the mobo is a fraction of the price, id say the gpu BUT in my case it doesnt matter cuz #gt610ftw

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GPU... because I've never had a graphic card that required a bios update.

Yet. If you have a fully support UEFI motherboard, you actually want to upgrade the GPU BIOS for UEFI support, so that your system boot instantly, and not wait for several seconds for the image to show on screen, and then the system actually boots.

Assuming fast SSD, and Windows 8. You system should boot from shutdown, in 6sec or less, from the power button "click sound" to Windows fully loaded.

The only thing to note, is that if you ever do the upgrade, this will make the GPU no longer compatible with legacy BIOS system. It will only work on UEZFI. That is why manufactures don't do it for you. So, UEFI has a compatibility mode to support legacy GPUs (basically non UEFI ready ones), so when you do the firmware upgrade, you want to go in the UEFI setup screen, and disable compatibility, else the system won't boot. So it can be scary in thinking the GPU is dead, but it's not :)

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ive never flashed gpu bios O.o

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Yet. If you have a fully support UEFI motherboard, you actually want to upgrade the GPU BIOS for UEFI support, so that your system boot instantly, and not wait for several seconds for the image to show on screen, and then the system actually boots.

By the time I get around to finally upgrading, I'm hoping that won't be an issue.

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Whatever costs more cash, to be honest I have not flashed my own BIOS on my new board as every time I go to I run away and cry.  :o

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so i'v got a question, so what happened? did it boot up and say "the first chips is screwed, were using the second!" or what?

it said that the first BIOS was corrupted, and start up the second, but after that rock solid

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it said that the first BIOS was corrupted, and start up the second, but after that rock solid

how does one "start up the second"?

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Neither particularly scares me, but if I had to chose one it would be GPU because graphics cards are upwards of $250+ and mobos (for the average consumer, anyways) are less than $200.

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I never flash anything unless it's absolutely necessary, I've never flashed a GPU and only flashed a motherboard a few times. That being said, I'd be more nervous about flashing a motherboard. It may be cheaper than a GPU, but if the flashing fails it'd be much more of a hassle to replace a mobo than a GPU.

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motherboard for me. so far never had problems with the gpu and on the motherboard failed twice >.<. gpu are easy to get but for the motherboard it's not at least the socket I'm using.

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If both was a option I would choose it. Flashing a bios is my last resort when troubleshooting and I will never do it for performance gains(because most the time its not worth the risk). For the poll though, I have flashed the bios on some motherboards and have only flashed the bios on a GPU once, so GPU flashing gets my vote.

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how does one "start up the second"?

on the boot screen it primed and started the second BIOS

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I normally buy cheap Mobo's because I don't really need all the features the fancy ones have. I just need USB, PS2, and DDR3 support. GPU's tend to cost way more for me, and it is very rare to have offical firmware support for a GPU flash.

 

Although there are a few duel BIOS AMD cards, those would probably be safer than most motherboards because you can just flip a switch if something goes wrong.

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I actually managed to break my motherboard's bios at one point during a flash. Thankfully the chip was removable! However it took quite a while to fix it so ever since then I've been very paranoid whenever I have to flash my motherboard's bios. I've never even attempted to flash my GPU's bios so clearly I would be much more afraid to flash my GPU's bios.

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I actually managed to break my motherboard's bios at one point during a flash. Thankfully the chip was removable! However it took quite a while to fix it so ever since then I've been very paranoid whenever I have to flash my motherboard's bios. I've never even attempted to flash my GPU's bios so clearly I would be much more afraid to flash my GPU's bios.

i had to flash mine 5 times

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I've flashed two custom 1.325v bios's on my old 780's a few times, and an even more unlocked LN2 bios on my 290x lightning, even had to re-flash the stock bios after that because the old stock bios was corrupt from the factory.

 

It's actually really easy!

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GPUs have BIOS updates?!

 

Also, Gigabyte has a nice tool to do it while in Windows, so it's no sweat.

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GPUs have BIOS updates?!

 

Also, Gigabyte has a nice tool to do it while in Windows, so it's no sweat.

Mainly for cracking to different voltages which is what was doing

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Gpu. it just seems like a much riskier prospect to me.

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I have done both, but I would rather replace my motherboard than gpu.

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I'm one of the few people out there with a more expensive motherboard than GPU (all but the most expensive GPUs are cheaper than my X79-E WS), so I would have to say I'm more afraid to flash that. On top of it, if I flash my GPU and it fails, I have my old GPU I can put in and still use my computer, if I brick my motherboard, I would be without a desktop until I can get it replaced.

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