7th gen intel

I'm using i5 6400 with this mobo and was wondering if I could upgrade to i7 7700 with a bios update. I was looking at their support page https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B150M-NIGHT-ELF/support#bios and it said a bios update will support next gen new intel cpu. It seems like both 6th and 7th gen...

I've been using the i3 7100 + 1050 Ti setup for almost 3 years. The i3 7100 is bottlenecking most current AAA games, especially Battlefield 1/V and the new Assassin's Creed (origins,odyssey,valhalla). For now, I don't plan to buy a new PC or video card, I'm just looking for a used / secondhand...

Can I update my motherboard without a working CPU? So a bit of backstory first; A few months ago my old asus h110m-a motherboard got fried overnight during a power cut/surge, the result was that my motherboard got fried. I therefore bought another motherboard for my i3 6100 (old CPU yes i...