5850 a bit warm?

[MJinZ]

Yeah nVidia never has driver issues amirite?

Never.

 

[MrK6]

Never.

Except when NVIDIA kills its own cards with its drivers, amirite? Brilliant marketing strategy: http://www.incgamers.com/news/21293/nvidia-19675-kills-video-cards

The hell is with all the blatant trolling on this forum all of a sudden?

 

[MrK6]

I'm using the AMD GPU clock tool. Drivers I can do... I'm a bit wary of bricking my card though, money is tight atm. How difficult/dangerous is the bios flash process?

Since your card is a Visiontek, I'm assuming that it's a reference model/board (I don't remember Visiontek making non-reference stuff). In that case, flashing it should be a walk in the park. Grab one of the unlocked BIOS's that extend the CCC overclocking limits and that should fix the problem should a driver update not do it. If you really want to make things convenient, write your (very) stable overclock values into a BIOS and then flash the card - that way your clocks are set permanently and you don't even have to open up software control or launch something at startup (this is what I do with my cards). BIOS flashing is a very simple process using ATIFlash and it's almost impossible to brick a card, especially flashing reference BIOS to reference BIOS. What specific questions do you have about the process or what worries you?

 

[Grooveriding]

Never.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=170238&st=240

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1542635&page=4

Both companies have driver issues, there are always driver issues.

 

[Rifter]

I'm using the AMD GPU clock tool. Drivers I can do... I'm a bit wary of bricking my card though, money is tight atm. How difficult/dangerous is the bios flash process?

For flashing the BIOS from what i understand even if you screw it up the first time(which is unlikely, its not hard to do) you can still fix it if you have another card to use to see what you are doing while you try re-flash it.

 

[Kenmitch]

I have the same card a Visiontek which I've flashed with the hacked asus 5870 bios. All my clocks and voltages have been edited so it's boot and forget it.

Flasing bios is quick and easy. Bootable mem stick is what I use. Seems pretty safe as it only takes about 10'seconds or so.

 

[nipplefish]

I guess it's just a healthy paranoia.. I've flashed everything from motherboards to phones to game consoles to mp3 players, so it's nothing new, but every time I approach it as if it'll brick if I breathe too loud

I'll have to do a little more research here... anyone familiar with any good guides and/or sources for the BIOS files? How do you edit the clocks within the BIOS, is it just like a motherboard BIOS?