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sgeisenh on June 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP wit...

ASUS has a tendency to have very important reasons to update the BIOS. The last few Intel chipsets, they've had serious BIOS issues at launch that can cause tremendous headaches (random freezes, blue screen, etc.).

qb45 on June 5, 2016 [–]

In fact, the last few Intel CPU generations had issues at launch which had to be resolved with BIOS workarounds.

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