Do you flash the BIOS for your video cards?

[coolpurplefan]

Does it make much of a difference? Where do you find BIOS files if you do?

 

[mpilchfamily]

There is a way to do it. In the past it was mainly for forcing the card to act like the model just above it. But it almost always fails and kills your card. Mostly because there is more going on then just the card's bios being diffrent from one model to the next.

 

[covert24]

have done it before successfully. no performance increase at all.... was actually disappointed from all the work i had done.

 

[bryanW1995]

I flashed my 3870 bios to a newer version to correct the fan speed issue with the original cards. However, I liked using rivatuner better and ended up flashing back to the original bios. It was extremely easy, took about 10 minutes.

 

[kmmatney]

I flashed my 2900Pro so that it's underclocked in 2D, and overclocked to 2900XT speeds (actually a little higher) in 3D. It has worked out very well, with the card being silent in 2D. In 3D it can get a little loud, but not more than most other cards.

 

[coolpurplefan]

Ah, this is weird. I just read on the HIS website that some of their models don't have FlashEprom while Gigabyte seems to have a service to allow you to flash the BIOS.

Does anyone know which manufacturers make it easier for you to flash your BIOS?

 

[thilanliyan]

I think most vid card manufacturers don't allow you to do that without voiding the warranty so I don't think any of em would make it "easier".

 

[Sylvanas]

Here is the best BIOS collection. There is no need to flash the Bios unless absolutely necessary and you know what you are doing.

 

[error8]

I flashed my 8800 GT bios to increase the gpu voltage from 1.05 to 1.1 V. It meant quite a lot in overclocking. The hard mod only gave me a couple of extra mhz. Flashing your bios voids warranty , but even if something goes wrong is so easy to flash it back blindly.

 

[Bill Kunert]

I flashed my 8800GS to raise the gpu voltage and also to change the fan profile so it will stay below 75C when running FurMark. The original profile started at 30% and was very slow to ramp up.

 

[Skott]

No, never needed to flash one before. I either run my video cards at stock speeds or whatever overclocks allowed to from the factory via PC and software.