HowTo: turn your 6800GT or Ultra into a Gainward GS

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: lestat0521
Ok, i press y after i get the sub system missmatch, i still have the same old bios...so its not flashing it....the command for flashing it is nvflash --index=0 gwgsgt.rom ...correct?

the command for flashing it?

> boot to the flashdisk

(GUI screen)
=========================================================
Gainward GS Flashdisk rev1 nVflash v5.10
=========================================================
1) restore stock bios (backup.rom)
2) flash Gainward GS GT bios (350x1000)
3) flash Gainward GS Ultra bios (400x1100)
=========================================================

> press 2 (enter) for GT ~ or press 3 (enter) for Ultra

honestly ~ i dont think i coulda made it any easier!

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Question: (not trying to rain on the parade) wouldnt increasing the voltage on cards not designed for it possibly cause heat problems and dramatically shorten the life of the GPU? (as they dont have thermal protection of any kind AFAIK)

Some of those GTs have horrible coolers even at stock speeds, pushing 85C at load.

if your stock card is running 85*C youve already got problems.

my LE Ultra @ 425x1150 maxes out @ 69*C during RTHdribl with only 50% fan speed!

i use the NV Ultra reference cooler.

 

[chinkgai]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Question: (not trying to rain on the parade) wouldnt increasing the voltage on cards not designed for it possibly cause heat problems and dramatically shorten the life of the GPU? (as they dont have thermal protection of any kind AFAIK)

Some of those GTs have horrible coolers even at stock speeds, pushing 85C at load.

obviously your not one to do something like this

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
if youre an OCing nut ~ youre gonna wanna try this on your card

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Question: (not trying to rain on the parade) wouldnt increasing the voltage on cards not designed for it possibly cause heat problems and dramatically shorten the life of the GPU? (as they dont have thermal protection of any kind AFAIK)

Some of those GTs have horrible coolers even at stock speeds, pushing 85C at load.

if your stock card is running 85*C youve already got problems.

my LE Ultra @ 425x1150 maxes out @ 69*C during RTHdribl with only 50% fan speed!

i use the NV Ultra reference cooler.

I agree, that doesnt mean some idiot isnt going to bake his card increasing the voltage to the chip.

Many people dont even know how to check gpu temps.

 

[chinkgai]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
I agree, that doesnt mean some idiot isnt going to bake his card increasing the voltage to the chip.

Many people dont even know how to check gpu temps.

then those "idiots" probably wouldnt have gotten as far as a successful bios flash in the first place

 

[lestat0521]

o man, im not getting that window...)-=

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: lestat0521
o man, im not getting that window...)-=

in that case ~ start over and try again

unzip flashdisk directly to floppy disk......

 

[lestat0521]

well fixed the problem. seems your flash disk does not work for me, you are using a ibm dos that doesnt work on my comp, dunno why, so i had to recompile the files, got it to work ...yeah!

do i only flash the gt with the gt bios or can i flash it with a Ultra bios?

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: lestat0521
well fixed the problem. seems your flash disk does not work for me, you are using a ibm dos that doesnt work on my comp, dunno why, so i had to recompile the files, got it to work ...yeah!

do i only flash the gt with the gt bios or can i flash it with a Ultra bios?

really? heh thats kinda funny

flash what ever you want, but the nice trick is actually for Ultra owners to flash to GT.

 

[lestat0521]

is it any better or worse to choose either bios?

 

[THUGSROOK]

GT files are faster then Ultra files.....

 

[lestat0521]

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
GT files are faster then Ultra files.....

Much thanks rook!

 

[XBoxLPU]

if your stock card is running 85*C youve already got problems.

my LE Ultra @ 425x1150 maxes out @ 69*C during RTHdribl with only 50% fan speed!

i use the NV Ultra reference cooler.

:Q :Q :Q

I just got my BFG 6800 Ultra today and it card seems to reach around 80C during gaming... 60 C idle

everything stock.....

Looks like I am gonna need better case cooling ?

 

[THUGSROOK]

AS5/ASC will do wonders for your card.
if it doesnt have copper HS, you might wanna get one of those too. (from evga.com)
descent case exaust will also help.

 

[jbass]

is there any way to flash it from windows? I dont have a floppy on my box (didnt think i would ever need it )

 

[THUGSROOK]

altho im sure somebody out there somewhere does make a Windows flasher ~ i dont know who.
personally ~ i wouldnt be confortable flashing from Windows.

there is no reason you cant use the CDrom ISO, except of course you cant backup your original bios.

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU

if your stock card is running 85*C youve already got problems.

my LE Ultra @ 425x1150 maxes out @ 69*C during RTHdribl with only 50% fan speed!

i use the NV Ultra reference cooler.

:Q :Q :Q

I just got my BFG 6800 Ultra today and it card seems to reach around 80C during gaming... 60 C idle

everything stock.....

Looks like I am gonna need better case cooling ?

That's normal temps for these cards. I get around similar temps. Also no need to put AS5 on the card. BFG has already done that.

 

[DaveNCheez]

Thugs since this is an unmodified GS bios, in theory wouldn't this make the dual DVI work as well (since gainward GS cards are dual DVI?)



Dave

 

[THUGSROOK]

yes, Dual DVI works with both of these bios files.

 

[DaveNCheez]

YAY!
I will switch tonight..

Thugs.. again.... thanks.... you really took the LE cards and made them deal of the year in my book

 

[Matrix333]

after doing this the fan on my Gigabyte 6800GT no longer works...

great...

 

[DaveNCheez]

Matrix...
flash back to a gigabyte bios

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: Matrix333
after doing this the fan on my Gigabyte 6800GT no longer works...

great...

did you use the ExperTool software to control the fan speeds?

 

[Matrix333]

ya, i flashed back to my old bios

i already had it modded to 1.4v and so the gainward gs bios didnt help me at all
expert tool was cool, but i couldnt get my fan to work

so i guess ill stay at 400/1100 which is more than i could have asked for

 

[nitromullet]

I tried the floppy, but it wouldn't boot. I just got an error message telling to remove any media I had in and press a key (repeatedly). So, I tried a dos boot floppy and copied the files to that, but that gave me an error saying command.com was either corrupt or missing. Not that big of a deal as I'm not much of an overclocker, but I was kinda curious.