Computer nerds: how often do you update your BIOS with newly released firmware?

I do not, unless there is a problem. And I believe that is the general advice. Leave it alone, unless you have to update.

Same, unless there is a blatant, catastrophic issue, don’t do it. The one exception is when it’s brand new and the return window is still open. I always do it then.

Only when I have a strong reason to, such as, something is not working.

Which means, almost never.

If I even know there is a BIOS update available, I will read up on it and see if it seems to be relevant to me, looks like it has a desirable change, and if people seem to have tried it and found it to be stable and not cause problems or changes that I don’t want. Only if it satisfies those conditions, would I update.

I don’t have fear of going into BIOS settings, nor much fear of doing it wrong. But I DO have fear of it possibly being irreversible, and causing problems.

It’s been at least 14 years since I may have considered updating a CPU BIOS on a computer.