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August 11, 2008 at 09:38 AM
thepubear

should I flash the bios?

by thepubear . Updated 17 years, 11 months ago

I have an Asus M2NPV-VM mobo with an amd 3800+ dual core processor. When I go to the asus website, I find that for my chip, it says i have to have M2NPV-VM Beta BIOS 1301 bios.

Needless to say, the word Beta sends up warning flags. I flashed the bios with the next previous bios for this mobo, 1201. But since I habitually will run two instances of everquest 2 on my computer as I play that game, I do look for ever edge.

My question therefore is simple. Do I need and should I flash my bios with the 1301 or beta bios? What exactly do I gain in the way of speed/performance?

hmmm, anybody also know where I can find info on bios settings for this? As in when I go into the bios what options should I set? Predominantly I went with the default, except for things like boot order.

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