XPS 8930, new BIOS and what ?

Question

I have a DELL XPS 8930 with an i7-8700K CPU and 64GB of memory. I upgraded from BIOS version 1.1.27 to 1.1.28 as instructed and then to 1.1.30.

What does this latest BIOS update bring? CPU? Memory ? Hard disk ?

Thank you for your answers.

RoHe · Accepted Answer

There's a post by a Dell moderator in another recent XPS 8930 BIOS update thread saying: "None of the later BIOS added any hardware fixes."

So that doesn't sound like they will add any new hardware support, especially since the XPS 8930 is already 3 models behind. That said, XPS 8930 has always been upgradeable to a 9th Gen CPU vs the 8th Gen CPU you have now. But that may not be worth the cost vs any additional speed or capabilities you don't already have.

64-GB of RAM is max Dell validated in this PC model. Doesn't mean more won't work, but you'd have to search this forum to see if anyone has succeeded in using >64 GB.

You shouldn't have any issues with at least a 2T NVME SSD, and possibly a >4 GB SATA HDD, but there's a new thread today about issues getting a 12 GB HDD recognized in the XPS 8930, but not yet fully investigated.

JOcean · Answer

According to the support page for the 8930. those BIOS updates are for security updates and vulnerabilities. However 1.1.29 also states the following:

Fixed the issue where you cannot update the BIOS when you install the Windows 11 22H2 Cumulative Update KB5019980 on your system.

Delta Force 2023 · Answer

Thank you for your reply.

After this BIOS update, what I am particularly interested in knowing is what new CPU, what memory, what SSD hard disk I can put?

Does the BIOS update bring the possibility to put newer components?

Delta Force 2023 · Answer

Hello, I also have a 1TB SSD hard drive + other SATA hard drives. So I don't see any big changes on my PC. Perhaps add a 10 Gb ASUS XG-C100F network card to it. Thank you for your previous response.

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