Asus BIOS and Intel 4th Gen Haswell, did i update BIOS wrong?

[very_452001]

I have a Asus H81M-PLUS Motherboard and a Intel G3220 cpu which I believe is 4th Gen Haswell.

According to ASUS, to get the best out of this CPU I must update the bios in a special way:

http://

However I did not update the BIOS this way instead I updated the Bios via EZ Flash 2 in the Bios successfully.

Did I updated the Bios the wrong way?

 

[GhislainG]

EZ Flash 2 is the safest method to flash the BIOS. If your system works, then the flash was successful; otherwise the system wouldn't work at all.

 

[very_452001]

EZ Flash 2 is the safest method to flash the BIOS. If your system works, then the flash was successful; otherwise the system wouldn't work at all.

Ok the flash is successful and I didn't brick my motherboard however will I get the best out of my 4th Gen Intel Haswell CPU?

 

[GhislainG]

What do you mean? You can only get the performance that processor can provide and flashing the BIOS neither improved nor decreased it. You normally flash the BIOS to improve stability or memory compatibility, but it rarely improves performance, particularly with an entry level CPU.

 

[very_452001]

What do you mean? You can only get the performance that processor can provide and flashing the BIOS neither improved nor decreased it. You normally flash the BIOS to improve stability or memory compatibility, but it rarely improves performance, particularly with an entry level CPU.

I don't understand myself but ASUS are saying it in the following link:

ASUS BIOS updater for New 4th Gen Intel Core Processors

what do you make of the link above?

 

[GhislainG]

The link provides instructions to flash the BIOS using a supported CPU. Since you flashed the BIOS using the G3220, then it was already supported (it has been supported since version 0211). If the motherboard came with BIOS version 0211 and you wanted to install a Xeon E3-1220 V3, then you'd have to install a supported CPU to flash the BIOS to version 0603 or newer and then you could install the Xeon E3-1220 V3.

 

[very_452001]

The link provides instructions to flash the BIOS using a supported CPU. Since you flashed the BIOS using the G3220, then it was already supported (it has been supported since version 0211). If the motherboard came with BIOS version 0211 and you wanted to install a Xeon E3-1220 V3, then you'd have to install a supported CPU to flash the BIOS to version 0603 or newer and then you could install the Xeon E3-1220 V3.

That's strange cause according to ASUS Bios version 0211 didn't exist at all and instead Bios version 0215 was the first release?:

Click on Drivers & Tools

 

[GhislainG]

Typo as it may have been 0211, but that doesn't matter since you didn't have to flash it for your CPU.

 

[very_452001]

Typo as it may have been 0211, but that doesn't matter since you didn't have to flash it for your CPU.

With typos like that by ASUS it just confuses the customer more. When it comes to Bios they should take it seriously and not let some 15 year old work experience school boy run their website lol.

 

[Tsqrt]

For the new CPU Intel gen4, you must update the "bios" with the special way proposed by ASUS, ie: downloading their update pack, about 12Mb and launch the "update.exe" in an OS environnement with the MEI installed (from the DVD of the mobo). Because not only the bios will be update but the firmware of the Intel chipset also, with the EZ Flash 2 way the firmware will be not updated and the new CPU doesn't work on the mobo.
The version number of the Intel ME firmware can be seen on the screen of the UEFI BIOS utility in avanced mode a line below the date version of the bios.