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I'm not sure requiring a new motherboard vs flashing a bios is consumer friendly, unless you assume the consumer is loaded and technically illiterate. If someo
by wing-_-nuts 4y ago
I'm not sure requiring a new motherboard vs flashing a bios is consumer friendly, unless you assume the consumer is loaded and technically illiterate. If someone paid me $150 to flash a MB, I'd probably take that deal every time.
- mort96 4y agoSure, but if I'm buying a new CPU+motherboard combo anyways, I'd prefer if that just worked and I didn't have to acquire a temporary old CPU for the purposes of flashing BIOS with the CPU I actually want to use.
- brokenmachine 4y agoHaving the option > not having the option.
- mort96 4y agoIn isolation, yes. But that wasn't the discussion we were having, so I'm not sure why you're telling me this.
- brokenmachine 4y agoBeing able to buy a new CPU and put it in your old motherboard is better than having to buy both a new CPU and a new motherboard, even if you have to spend five minutes googling which BIOS you need to flash. You seem to have missed the point because the original discussion claimed that it was somehow "consumer friendly" to require the purchase of a motherboard as well. You've somehow morphed that into, "if I'm buying both a CPU and motherboard". The whole point was that you don't need to buy a new motherboard.