@johnny cruise
Honestly if it's intimidating dont stress it, just Download CPU-Z
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html and it will tell you in one of it's windows what version bios you have. Just know that eventually you'll need to learn how to bios update yourself. Not only is there a plethora of setting s you can tune but if you ever get BSOD or make windows unstable you'll have to navigate through bios to revert whatever made the system un bootable (just an example) now, If it is outdated and you really dont think you can do it without messing it up or just don't want to risk it I recommend scheduling an appointment with someone at a store like Micro center
https://www.microcenter.com/ or any specialty computers store full of nerds who love doing this shit... like me. (guilty as charged
) and just run them over the whole situation, they might even stumble across a few setting that can optimize your computers performance. hope you're able to narrow it down quickly! I know how frustrating that can be, Built my set up from the ground up and let me say i've gone through more BSOD and fresh windows installs, restores backups, you name it i've probably experienced it 😆 but half the fun is fine tuning your overclock to find that optimal loop hole in your system. every system has a loop hole in that you can push it WAY beyond what it's advertised as and still run it healthy when the loophole is achieved, which I think I have recently accomplished, I successfully overclocked my ram to the HIGHEST stable frequency on a AMD tr4 mobo Zen+ architecture that I know of to date... that isn't bottle necked by the mobo's memory controller frequency cap that is, mine is 3600 hense stopping at 3568 cl14 with a bus increase to x 101.00
this is my cpu (AMD TR 2950x 16c / 32t) up against Intel's HEDT processor the i9-7980XE with 18c / 36t and still came out on top, and that was just before I over clocked my ram to a stable 3568 cl 14 on a quad channel 3200 cl16 Corsair Dominator Plat. ROG special edition Samsung B-dies kit, ill post back with benchmarks with new ram, it's quite the improvment since AMD cpu's in Zen+ benefit off the Infinity fabric which is controled by... you guessed it, ram speed.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Au0VBbJ7M3a3sAjyRMC938ri9KCB