[SOLVED] i7-920

[beardoftree]

no problems really, but, is it a good idea to upgrade the bios of my chip? 11 yrs old i believe.

 

[vistagamer6969]

What motherboard?
Why do you want to upgrade?

 

[punkncat]

At this point and in the absence of issues, absolutely not.

 

[beardoftree]

What motherboard?
Why do you want to upgrade?

gigabyte extreme 1366 x58 chipset
actually to prolong the life of my gaming capability, right now i cant even run fo76 or fo4 , ESO , runs fine, and also Gw2. But i ve never thought to up grade the bios.

 

[beardoftree]

At this point and in the absence of issues, absolutely not.

well, i just lost a good vid card is why i m kinda reaching out , not sure why it gave up the ghost. Lost connection, no signal, and checked all these with changes of cables and switching modes on monitor. But like i said it did not effect the pcu at all.

 

[FoxVoxDK]

I'd have the GFX card checked in another PC, your system is old and other factors might be in play.

 

[SamirD]

If your video card is the issue, let's focus on diagnosing that. Trying it in another system would be the first test because if it works fine, you've got something else going on.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Given that the last non-beta BIOS is dated over 10 years ago, if you haven't been having issues since then and unless your gaming card was also 10+ years old, updating the BIOS now won't change anything.

-Wolf sends

 

[GarrettL]

I have an x58 i7 960 still running but retired from gaming. It doesn’t compare to a new Ryzen pc.

I love my old x58 pc and it’s still running fine. I changed the psu in it a few months ago. I’m fond of it for whatever reason, was a great gaming pc for many years. If it dies tomorrow I’d sadly have to let it go. It’s old.

And if yours is running fine then continue to enjoy it. But it’s gaming days are nearly done.

 

[InvalidError]

For the most part with BIOS updates: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

If you aren't already running the latest production BIOS, look at change notes to see if there is anything worth bothering with in there.

 

[FoxVoxDK]

For the most part with BIOS updates: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

If you aren't already running the latest production BIOS, look at change notes to see if there is anything worth bothering with in there.

Just to add to this, in most BIOS updates there are 0% gains to general system speed. BIOS is your foundation when is comes to compatibility, not system performance(usually).

 

[Makaveli]

I would only update the bios if one was released with spectre patches

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/meltdown-and-spectre-patched-bios-for-x58-motherboards.246101/mitigations

I recently retired my on x58 sytem in dec 2019.