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I am updating my acer computer. It has done me well, but it is time to bring it up to these times. I am buying a new motherboard, a BIOSTAR Hi-Fi A88W 3D FM2+ / FM2 AMD A88X (Bolton D4) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard, a new processor, the AMD A8-7600 Kaveri Quad-Core 3.1GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket FM2+ 65W Desktop Processor Radeon R7 series AD7600YBJABOX.Now I have an Acer Aspire AM3410-UR22P (PT.SGDP2.004) Desktop PC Phenom II X4 840T (2.9GHz) 4GB DDR3 1TB HDD Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit which has given me good service, but it will not handle a PCI Express 3.0 x16. I have one in there now, but it only works on 2.0. (I knew this when I bought and added it.) Now, I should be able to get this together; I have built several computers from scratch before, but I need help adding the bios to the new computer. Could someone please explain this to me, and start from scratch and please don't leave anything out, assuming I already know this. Simply said, I am adding, or replacing the motherboard, adding a new processor, and that's it, but I need to know how and when to find and add the bios. Thank you very much. I may have done this some time ago, but I have cancer now, and may have forgotten it. I still doubt it though.
 
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The BIOS is included on a chipset already installed on the motherboard. There is no need to install it. There likely is no reason to update it. Only if a specific BIOS update resolves an issue that you are currently experiencing, should you attempt a BIOS update.

That being said, I do not believe that your proposed update would provide you with your desired performance increases. It's likely that your current graphics card cannot saturate the throughput of your current motherboard's PCI-E 2.0 lanes, let alone a new motherboard's PCI-E 3.0 lanes. Additionally, I believe that if you already have a discrete graphics card, you should not be considering an AMD APU (designed for their integrated graphics) as a replacement.

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The BIOS is included on a chipset already installed on the motherboard. There is no need to install it. There likely is no reason to update it. Only if a specific BIOS update resolves an issue that you are currently experiencing, should you attempt a BIOS update.

That being said, I do not believe that your proposed update would provide you with your desired performance increases. It's likely that your current graphics card cannot saturate the throughput of your current motherboard's PCI-E 2.0 lanes, let alone a new motherboard's PCI-E 3.0 lanes. Additionally, I believe that if you already have a discrete graphics card, you should not be considering an AMD APU (designed for their integrated graphics) as a replacement.

-Wolf sends
 
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I am very glad that you told me this. I thought that these days that this would be the case, but had to be sure. Now, letting me know about the AMD is very, very helpful. This is something that I did not know. I do have another that I almost picked, that is now going to be the one, thanks to you; and no, it is not like the one you spoke about. Thank you very much; you have probably saved me a real nightmare. I owe you, but you will have to accept a prayer. Your thankful friend, Mistralok
 
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One thing that I forgot to mention; my current motherboard is a 2 on the video. I got it as far as I could with a 2.0 card, but have to update to a 3.0 board, if I want it to get better. Now, I have already installed a 3.0 card on the 2.0 board, knowing that the change would come soon and it would work at the 2.0 speeds. However, when I put it in, things sped up quite a bit- now things like games are moving at ~4 times the previous speeds. Surprised me. If you are interested, the video card is an MSI R7770. I am looking forward to when I get it into a motherboard with the 3.0 video. Thank you again. Mistralok
 
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You're over-estimating the noticeable differences between PCI-E 2.0 and PCI-E 3.0. With the MSI R7770 (and just about any card on the market today), it's highly unlikely you'd note ANY performance increase between the two PCI-E versions. You do not need to upgrade your motherboard just for PCI-E 3.0.

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Sorry, I forgot to thank you. It did not make sense to me, and to be honest, I checked around the web, and lo and behold, you are right. It is like saying that a motorcycle is no faster than a bicycle, but evidently, it isn't. I was a Chef for ~40 years; I studied and lived in France, (Provence), and in northern Italy, where they make real food - not that slop you find in the south. What you told me to do, was like another Chef telling me to add some chopped dill to a well-known French sauce. What? This sauce is over 100 years old, a classic, and no one has ever messed with the recipe before! In the French food world that is like messing with the bible, but I tried it, and what do you know, it was amazing. Brightened it up, gave it another level of flavor, and a new name that I used on a fairly regular basis afterwords.
Basically, what I am saying is that you made sense out of something that made no sense to me before; and , you saved me a couple of hundred bucks. What you have done is very valuable to me, and once again, I must truly thank you. I have already began to tell my family and friends about your site, and soon more; I feel that I need to get the money back to you that you have saved me. -Mistralok-
 
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