Some Intel X99 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Broadwell-E CPUs?

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I was looing at purchasing an
ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard and a
Intel Core i7-6950X 3.0GHz 10-Core Processor, and it came up with the message that i might need a BIOS update, i was just wondering if these 2 would be compatable without an update, but also if i would have to do an update, where/how would i go about doing it, and would i need a different CPU just to be able to do the BIOS update.

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It will depend how long the specific board you get has been sitting around. The t950X requires BIOS 3.00 according to the website -- http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20X99X%20Killer/?cat=CPU That BIOS was released in April of 16 -- http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20X99X%20Killer/?cat=Download&os=BIOS That board has BIOS versions that go all the way back to '14. So if you get a board that has been sitting on a shelf for a year, you may have to do an update. There is no way to predict.
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It will depend how long the specific board you get has been sitting around. The t950X requires BIOS 3.00 according to the website -- http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20X99X%20Killer/?cat=CPU That BIOS was released in April of 16 -- http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20X99X%20Killer/?cat=Download&os=BIOS That board has BIOS versions that go all the way back to '14. So if you get a board that has been sitting on a shelf for a year, you may have to do an update. There is no way to predict.
 
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