Looking for a specific Power Color PCS+ 390 Bios

atticus14

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I really like my card but it has one flaw...its throttle temp is set too aggressively @ 65c

Took me awhile to figure this out since it never dawned on me that they would set a temp so low, but anyways this made me research as best as i could and I've been flashing other cards bios, but they just simply didn't work at all.

according to this review my card should have shipped with a 75c throttle instead

http://www.fudzilla.com/component/k2/38040-powercolor-r9-390-pcs-8gb-reviewed?showall=1

Thermals and Noise
Thanks to the custom cooler design, the PCS+ does not have a problem keeping its GPU clock high during extended intensive GPU load scenarios. The temperature goes up to 74 degrees Celsius, which is relatively low for such a big GPU.

PowerColor initially set the BIOS to keep the GPU temperature under 65 degrees, but during our review we received a new BIOS that will ship on retail cards. The new bios allows for 74 degrees, trading temperature for lower noise.

I cant find it (the bios) on techpowerup

this seems to be it, but I tried it and the same thing happened, plus for some reason my Keyboard didn't work.
https://www.computerbase.de/downloads/systemtools/grafikkarten/powercolor-r9-390-pcs-plus-bios/


anyone have any ideas? Afterburner has a temp limit option which would be way easier but it seems to be for nvidia only.

and i have tried both Bios switches.
 

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I really like my card but it has one flaw...its throttle temp is set too aggressively @ 65c

Took me awhile to figure this out since it never dawned on me that they would set a temp so low, but anyways this made me research as best as i could and I've been flashing other cards bios, but they just simply didn't work at all.

according to this review my card should have shipped with a 75c throttle instead

http://www.fudzilla.com/component/k2/38040-powercolor-r9-390-pcs-8gb-reviewed?showall=1



I cant find it (the bios) on techpowerup

this seems to be it, but I tried it and the same thing happened, plus for some reason my Keyboard didn't work.
https://www.computerbase.de/downloads/systemtools/grafikkarten/powercolor-r9-390-pcs-plus-bios/


anyone have any ideas? Afterburner has a temp limit option which would be way easier but it seems to be for nvidia only.

and i have tried both Bios switches.
Did you try any of these ~
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/173026/powercolor-r9390-8192-150527
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios...ce=&memType=&memSize=&did=1002-67B1-148C-2358

The second link are unverified BIOS uploads, so be careful with them. If you need more info you could try TPU or ask here for further clarification.
 

atticus14

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thanks for the link, I did try the normal one, but never came across the unverified ones. I'll try them out when I can.