[FIXED] X58A-UD3R rev. 2.0 Audio crackling / FPS stutter issues - BIOS Help!

[LoveDuckie]

Hi all,

Just starting a new thread to ask a quick question regarding updating my BIOS.

For a while now I have been suffering from a problem in which my machine gets high DPC latency when playing games or doing pretty basic stuff around my machine.

After some googling, I have found some people have had the same issues and in turn have applied BIOS updates.

As such, I know that it's a BIOS update that is going to fix the issue.

My question is, should I update from my current BIOS version (FA) which is from 2010 to one that is from 2012 (FH) which flashing to ones in between?

Posts and information referring to my problem:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=18162731#post18162731
http://blog.lococobra.com/gigabyte-ga-x58a-ud3r-rev-2-0-audio-glitching-due-dpc-latency

In the second link, the guy mentions flashing to FG1 using @BIOS, but I am not sure if that's entirely safe.

What's the consensus on this? Should I just format a flash drive to FAT32, and use QFLASH to get me to FH?

Attached: In case you want further proof about my set up, here's a screenshot from CPU-Z

[LoveDuckie]

Update: I have resolved this issue.

The fix for it was simple. In the end I decided to go for the FE version of the BIOS that was available right here.

For more information and why I decided to go for the FE version rather than something more up to date like FH, you can read by my blog about it, right here.