BIOS Firmware | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Sat, 11 Jul 2020 07:16:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png BIOS Firmware | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Gigabyte releases new BIOS for AMD motherboards to fix security issues and improve performance https://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/christopher-nohall/gigabyte-releases-new-bios-for-amd-motherboards-to-fix-security-issues-and-improve-performance/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/christopher-nohall/gigabyte-releases-new-bios-for-amd-motherboards-to-fix-security-issues-and-improve-performance/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:13:47 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=476396 Gigabyte announced the release of new BIOS firmware for AMD motherboards. The company said that the new firmware will fix security issues, improve performance, and optimise stability. AMD's APU processors that were released from 2016 to 2019 have suffered from the possibility of SMM Callout related security issues. The SMM Callout issues enable attackers to take …

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Gigabyte announced the release of new BIOS firmware for AMD motherboards. The company said that the new firmware will fix security issues, improve performance, and optimise stability.

AMD's APU processors that were released from 2016 to 2019 have suffered from the possibility of SMM Callout related security issues. The SMM Callout issues enable attackers to take control of the whole system through the system manage mode of AMD AGESA microcode. Gigabyte's new BIOS firmware adopts the latest AGESA microcode which is said to offer “effective solutions for some of the hidden SMM Callout related security issues on the AMD APU”.

Gigabyte said that it had worked closely with AMD “to provide the best performance, enhanced user experience, and the recovery of security issues”. The new BIOS firmware can be updated even without installing a processor, memory, graphics cards. The formal BIOS release date is slightly different for each chipset, but the new BIOS is expected to be released to all chipsets before the end of the July.

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ASRock release new firmware for RX 5600 XT graphics cards https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/james-dawson/asrock-release-new-firmware-for-rx-5600-xt-graphics-cards/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/james-dawson/asrock-release-new-firmware-for-rx-5600-xt-graphics-cards/#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:17:19 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=458176 When board partners launched the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT back in January this year, there was huge confusion when AMD just days before the release decided to roll out a VBIOS update to boost performance and upgrade the VRAM of RX 5600 XT cards from 12 Gbps to 14 Gbps. When this VBIOS update …

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When board partners launched the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT back in January this year, there was huge confusion when AMD just days before the release decided to roll out a VBIOS update to boost performance and upgrade the VRAM of RX 5600 XT cards from 12 Gbps to 14 Gbps.

When this VBIOS update happened, some graphics card manufacturers chose not to offer the update for RX 5600 XT cards that were available on the initial launch date. MSI was unable to guarantee that the VRAM of its first batch of RX 5600 XT would be able to support the 14 Gbps speed that the update brought, and later released a revised card with 14 Gbps VRAM out of the box.

While other companies were advising that the new VBIOS update should be used with caution, many RX 5600 XT manufacturers agreed that the VBIOS update would be fine for their cards and advised users to update at launch to extract maximum performance.

ASRock was one of the manufacturers who remained relatively calm about the VBIOS update farce and pushed out the new firmware to its RX 5600 XT customers at launch. ASRock has announced today, that a new VBIOS firmware is being made available to enable 14 Gbps memory on its RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming D3 6G OC, RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming D2 6G OC and RX 5600 XT Challenger D 6G OC graphics cards.

The latest VBIOS update from the ASRock R&D team will not only boost the graphics performance with this improved 14 Gbps VRAM speed, but it also brings other graphics improvements to the specified RX 5600XT cards to enhance the entire gaming experience of these products. If you are the owner of one of the cards mentioned, head over to the official ASRock support pages to get your hands on the new VBIOS firmware.

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