Better performance after bios update?

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I updated my bios for my recently purchased laptop hp-ab048tx yesterday from Insyde F.03 (03-15-15) to F.81 (07-25-16). While the changelog for this and the previous version didn't list much other than fixing intermittent crashes (which I didn't have), apparently the performance has actually improved, especially the boot times. Earlier, a restart used to take much longer, but now it seems almost as fast as a startup after shutting down (I'm using Windows 10's fast startup). Is this possible (bios update increasing performance) or just the placebo effect?

PulseJet

Posted 2016-08-15T04:40:02.717

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Answers

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Its possible the current or previous versions including performance enhancements that were not listed. Or perhaps the code that fixed the intermittent crashes was causing a slowdown. There is no way to know, however you say there is a visible improvement, so more than likely some changed increased the performance.

Keltari

Posted 2016-08-15T04:40:02.717

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Great! I have been told before that bios updates simply 'cannot' increase performance, so I was thinking it must be just me being too optimistic. – PulseJet – 2016-08-15T05:02:54.657

1bios updates absolutely can increase performance – Keltari – 2016-08-15T05:35:33.163

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