and the first question I have is Would it hurt to have up to date BIOS .
The answer is No, it won't hurt anything BUT it will eliminate one issue.....Just Do It !
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Alrighty, so a while back I was playing csgo when suddenly my pc froze, about 2-3 secs later it unfroze but the game was terribly laggy in terms of framerates. I tested other games and I'm still getting around 40fps MAX on any game, NO MATTER what settings I use.
Specs: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/4tn7BP
Now. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling my GPU drivers. I've uninstalled my GPU drivers and put in my 970 and installed those drivers, still choppy fps. I've factory reset my pc, done virus scans on multiple anti viruses, Bought a new Harddrive, New RAM, and a new power supply. My cpu, memory and disk is under 10% in the task manager while idle.
Heaven results: Min: 6.9 Max: 71.3 Temp 62c (These results are poor compared to other 1070 results) Cpu temps reach 35c while in Heaven and gaming. I've done cpu stress tests and found nothing wrong. However when I have my 970 in my pc I get blue screens every now and then, so it could be possible that both graphics cards are faulty?
I posted this issue on another forum but had people responding to me who clearly had not thoroughly read what I wrote. One person recommended I update my bios, I read around online and not one person has stated that an up to date bios will have a significant performance increase over one that hasn't. And a bios that hasn't been updated just doesn't make sense to make my frames suddenly drop to 30s in any game.

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