Yoga2 Pro Bios Update Difference?

Can anyone who owns Y2P talk about the performance difference or I should say the improvements after the Bios update? Are you satisfied with the update?
Thank you!

Well atm I'm having problems with my DVD-drive giving me DMA errors whenever I'm trying to burn a DVD. I've looked into the matter and nothing seems to be helping so I thought of updating the BIOS.
Even though a BIOS update might not help with my current problem, I'm still interested to know whether it is possible to update BIOS from 7.3 to 8.e.
I read from somewhere that this was not adviced because 8.x versions are meant for X58 PRO SLI
MSI automatic updating also didn't even suggest any updates for my BIOS. I know not to flash from MSI LiveUpdate, I just ran it to check for updates.

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