Question Upgrading the BIOS from P2.40 to P7.10 to Support Ryzen 9 CPU

[ringmany]

Hi everyone,

My motherboard is an ASRock X370 Taichi ATX AM4

I built my PC around 5 years ago. I currently have a Ryzen 7 1700 CPU and I'm looking to upgrade to a Ryzen 9 5900X. I'm also upgrading my GPU from a GTX 1070 to a RTX 4070. Looking to do a big overall upgrade to my PC.

I'm looking on forums and it's saying I need to update my BIOS to version P7.10
I'm currently on version P2.40

Since I've never done an upgrade to my BIOS, do I simply need to download that version, then upgrade straight from 2.40 to 7.10 or should I do it slowly? Should I only upgrade to 7.10 or is it better to upgrade even further to the latest version?

Also I know barely anything about motherboards, if I do upgrade my CPU to a Ryzen 9 5900X and an RTX 4070, do you think my PC is going to be bottlenecked when gaming due to the motherboard? Cheers

 

[rgd1101]

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370 Taichi/#BIOS
read the note

 

[ringmany]

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370 Taichi/#BIOS
read the note

Which note in particular?
The one at the top saying just update to latest version available? So I don't need to slowly increment, just go straight to latest?

What about my question regarding performance being bottlenecked by my motherboard if I upgrade the CPU and GPU?
Cheers!

 

[USAFRet]

Which note in particular?

All of them.

Some require updating to the previous one before proceeding.
Like this, for v4.60: "* If the current BIOS version is older than P3.30, please update BIOS to P3.30(Bridge BIOS) before updating this version."