Which manufacturer has the best long term BIOS support (gaming oriented)?

[Erebus]

As the title asks, who has the best long term/after sale BIOS update/driver support for gaming oriented motherboards (I'm processor brand agnostic)?

Likely a super subjective question, but I've been out of the game since about 2008. From what I can see from forum surfing, ASUS seems to be a favorite currently. Is this even a concern anymore? My current MSI board stopped having updates/drivers pushed to it's support page after ~ a year or two.

**Edit**
Maybe to get more mileage out of this thread, I'll expand it to ask what the opinion is on best UEFI/motherboard utilities?

 

[Dodge245]

I would have said, its never been a concern... Drivers only needed to be updated if your having issues, and I don't remember the last time I had an issue with Motherboard Drivers...

 

[grumperfish]

ASUS probably has the best overall BIOS setups with good layouts and documentation. MSI is (to me at least) confusing, and from what I've seen they like using non-standard terms to describe some of their features. Gigabyte has historically been a mess with too many poorly-documented features enabled to the user, but their latest Z390 BIOS' have gotten much easier to work with and I didn't have any problems with my latest build. I haven't used any ASRock boards so I can't comment on those.

 

[ythe1300]

I'm not sure who has the best support, but I would disagree Dodge, BIOS updates are important as they can help mitigate threats.

 

[Dodge245]

I'm not sure who has the best support, but I would disagree Dodge, BIOS updates are important as they can help mitigate threats.

would being a target of a likely threat not be an issue? I don't remember the last time there was a BIOS threat, I'm sure they exist, but the last time i remember hearing about one was in the Pentium Days...

 

[grumperfish]

Pretty recent actually. Meltdown and Spectre are major examples.

 

[OFaceSIG]

I have personally seen Intel update old boards for S/M. They updated the board I used in the router build in my sig, even though it's quite old.

 

[Rifter0876]

Pretty recent actually. Meltdown and Spectre are major examples.

These need to be fixed in hardware so thats a moot point, a bios update wont help.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/spectre-forever-cpu-security-flaws-research,38627.html