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can a BIOS update increase FPS for AMD rising pcs this video will be short and sweet and as the title explains will seek to solve the mystery involving and for UEFI s you see with Intel this hasn't lately been a concern when sky and KB families hit the shelves motherboard manufacturers already loaded up their fine-tuned firmware Ergo performance jumps from subsequent BIOS updates were minimal and they're typically not suggested unless you have a serious problem with the motherboard at hand but with Verizon things are a bit backwards and you can thank AMD for that not the motherboard manufacturers in fact one anonymous motherboard rep went off about how AMD didn't alot enough time for these manufacturers to procure the firmware necessary to extract the full potential of rising CPUs what we ended up with was a messy launch plagued with RAM frequency issues but still persist by the way overclock limitations and as you'll see shortly framerate disparities so what I did was test two different motherboards with my AMD are seven 1700 X the first the ax 370 gaming K seven gigabytes finest am4 board the second was the asrock X 370 Taichi I ran the same GTA 5 benchmark with the same presets before and after the BIOS update the starting BIOS is used where the ones that shipped on launch day around February 11th or so the second batch of BIOS is flashed were these here the latest releases as of March 25th other specifications include a single gtx 1070 from EVGA running its stock 16 gigabytes of ddr4 24 hundred megahertz plugging any higher still rather sketchy on the gigabyte board even with 2 dims installed vs. 4 and a cpu frequency of 3.9 gigahertz which most should be able to obtain with a 1700 X and a decent cooler now it's off to the races the gigabyte board is up first on the f2 BIOS the minimum frame rate was 75 averaging to just under 102 FPS with the latest BIOS f3 be my framerate actually fell to 69 on the minimum side and only 98 on average now if you're wondering whether this falls into the margin of error don't worry you aren't alone so I retested after flashing back to the f2 BIOS only to find this the same minimum that's the previous f2 run and a 1 FPS difference on average so in gigabytes case it's safe to say that FPS and GT 5 decrease as a result of the latest BIOS update but let's test to be as rock board I should mention and they didn't tell me to say this by the way they've been doing an excellent job staying on top of their firmware updates so typically find a large list of you afi's to choose from development it's almost never a disappointment here now in the earliest BIOS I received these results 65 on the low side 95 on average these scores are lower than both of our gigabyte runs but there's more to the story after updating to the latest firmware version 1.6 for the Taichi FPS increased by nearly 20 percent across the board 76 for the minimum 110 on average here are the four scenarios on the same graph so what does this mean if you have a rise in CPU obviously a rising motherboard I recommend staying on top of those motherboard firmware updates you never know one could come along that can drastically change your gaming performance that's how it is going to be for these rise in CPUs especially our five CPUs you'll start to see things really turn around for Rison five once these bios's are refined so I recommend staying on top of those don't update to the latest firmware automatically I do recommend checking other sides before doing that making sure that the babies have confirmed that that BIOS is a good BIOS and one that you do want to download and flash but for now at least keep on top of what is being released for your motherboard because a lot of people will just install the board install the CPU and just move on from there but when you'll find that as these motherboard biases roll out as they're being refined time and time again you'll be able to overclock your RAM a bit more you'll be able to overclock CPU a bit more you might even just incur a few extra frames simply from the PI update itself which can have a huge impact on the operating system stability things like that which we're not used to seeing on the intel slide because well with intel releases lately motherboard manufacturers have had much more time to prepare those UEFI s before the initial launch of those CPUs so all that to say this reisen's still a bit shaky I still can't hit three thousand megahertz on my gigabyte board where workability is sketchy at best temperatures are almost always inaccurate and as we've verified here yet another variable can impact gaming performance we can play the blame game all you'd like but the fact of the matter is things aren't quite there yet for the red team I'm seeing it firsthand with red sky my new editing rig boasting a 1700 X I'm all-in when what's left of the hype and I'm impatiently waiting for further updates I'm not on the AMD witch hunt I don't care what's in my system I can't see the processor in my system I only care about two things performance and value AMD can win it especially with Rison 5 but the kings need to be worked out first shouldn't be too long now although if you're wondering I still do stand by my statement regarding rising 5 and the Intel i5 lineups that are made right here my bet that makes you cringe inside you like this video be sure to give it a thumbs up thumbs done for the opposite be sure click subscribe if you haven't already and we'll catch you in the next video where I review the LG G 6 is about the s8 well no but should you still consider it hell yes this is sell is our studio thanks for learning with us