My Bios catch 22 problem

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What would you guys do?

 

I have an older LGA 2011 board that will support the new CPU I bought IF I can update the bios first.  But I can't update the bios without an older CPU first.  And unfortunately I can't just get a cheapo CPU for a temporary bios update since ALL 2011 CPUs are pretty expensive.  So what would you guys do?  I'm tempted to take the mobo to microcenter, explain my situation and have them update the bios for me with a borrowed CPU I'm hoping they have laying around.  Except that I feel like that would be beyond their skill level, even if they were willing to do that for me.

 

FYI my mobo is a GA-X79-UD3

my CPU is the intel i7-4820k 

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Just take it to any pc store, a few beers would cover it. It only takes a minute or so.

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It will work enough with your new CPU to do the BIOS update.

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+1 here. see if you can update the bios with the new cpu already installed :) It should work

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OP's board wont post with the new chip. So he needs an old chip like a 3820 to get to the bios, then update, then install new 4xxx cpu.

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Gigabyte board: doesn't even have to post, just flash it from USB drive on power-on. But I'm sure that it posts, but then says CPU not recognized, and it won't boot. With F2 you can flash the BIOS from USB even at that stage.