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Newest BIOS available to this mobo is F10b as in beta. Older is F9 which is still newer than my F7. Now I'm wondering whether I should update to beta BIOS or use stable one. The one thing beta has stated to have is more stable OC. But I'm not sure if its worth the risk.

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If you are experiencing no issues then never update the BIOS and especially don't upgrade to a BIOS that is in beta.

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Newest BIOS available to this mobo is F10b as in beta. Older is F9 which is still newer than my F7. Now I'm wondering whether I should update to beta BIOS or use stable one. The one thing beta has stated to have is more stable OC. But I'm not sure if its worth the risk.

I am running the EXPERIMENTAL F8c BIOS on my X99 UD5...all stable :) (order is: certified stable --> beta --> experimental). Experimental can only be found here (gigabyte mobos only).

 

If you have 2 BIOS chips i say go for it (you can just reflash BIOS1 with BIOS2 if BIOS1 get corrupted). If you only have one, stay with what you have.

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If you are overclocking, and the beta offers better overclocking potential, I can't see why not.

But this comes from someone who always run the latest version of everything, be it beta or not.

Personally, I never had a problem with a beta BIOS, and you can always flash back, if there is a problem.

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I am running the EXPERIMENTAL F8c BIOS on my X99 UD5...all stable :) (order is: certified stable --> beta --> experimental). Experimental can only be found here (gigabyte mobos only).

 

If you have 2 BIOS chips i say go for it (you can just reflash BIOS1 with BIOS2 if BIOS1 get corrupted). If you only have one, stay with what you have.

 

DualBIOS here so I'm not so worried over updating to stable. Maybe I go for stable first and go for beta later. I've been on F7 over year now.

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just flash the experimental bios ;)

 

If its as hard as getting even F9 flashed, no thx. Just flashed to F8 because Q-Flash gives old version error.

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