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BIOS Flash your 5900 into a 5950
- Thread starter Lewiser
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My Gainward 5900 non-ultra alleged Golden Sample can't even do 450/950 with generous ventilation. I think "Golden" refers to liquid excrement.
I don't think this bios will do anything for my card, except maybe kill it.
I don't think this bios will do anything for my card, except maybe kill it.
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Working a charm ...I'm starting a database for all the BIOS's. So if you have one for a 5950's brand, please send it my way. [email protected]
http://www.banzai.sniperhq.net/nVidia BIOS/
Also, don't use the current nvflash. Use nvflash441 as it works better. That's also on my site.
Ryan
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My Gainward wouldn't do 450/950 before, but now it will do 475/950 just fine after this 5950 bios flash. I'm experiencing some unusual text issues though. Sometimes the text will look slightly fuzzy and others a bit too sharp and faded.??
I didn't do any before and after benchies. Relaxed timings within the 5950u bios are likely the reason for my increase in clock speed. Can anyone confirm this with their bios swap?
I didn't do any before and after benchies. Relaxed timings within the 5950u bios are likely the reason for my increase in clock speed. Can anyone confirm this with their bios swap?
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I'm not sure it's any more than speculation whether the bios increases timings, raises voltage, or both. I myself doubt that the bios ever controls voltage to begin with in a design like this; the only reason the bios enters into voltage regulation on the pc itself is so we can adjust it.
The volt mods for the 5900 are easy, but you have to be careful. Only small increases are feasible on air without damaging the card. The heat produced shows how hard the memory chips are working as well.
The volt mods for the 5900 are easy, but you have to be careful. Only small increases are feasible on air without damaging the card. The heat produced shows how hard the memory chips are working as well.
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Will these BIOS's work with other brand 5900s?
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My 5900 non-ultra could not handle the 5950 speeds, (see a few replies back) until I flashed it with the 5950 bios. So it may just work fine as it has for me.
I'm currently running at 485/985.
I'm currently running at 485/985.
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kraigc said:
Yeah, I'd like to know that also. I have an XFX FX5900nu 256Mb on the way. XFX does not have any flash bios' on their web site and I'm not sure if they have an ftp site.
Hoot
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BFG's 5900 will in fact flash to a 5950 using leadtek's BIOS.
xtremesystems confirmed a while back that the BIOS DOES add voltage. Previously I couldn't push the card past 460/980. I can now bench a few times in 3DMark 2k1 @ 510/1050, and in 2k3 @ 490/1000.
Even better, with better cooling/vmods, those numbers could go even higher.
xtremesystems confirmed a while back that the BIOS DOES add voltage. Previously I couldn't push the card past 460/980. I can now bench a few times in 3DMark 2k1 @ 510/1050, and in 2k3 @ 490/1000.
Even better, with better cooling/vmods, those numbers could go even higher
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Getting an RCA cable tomorrow to test it out. Will tell you what I find.
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