Flashing VGA bios...Benefits?

[Puer Aeternus]

I have the MSI TI4200 64mb card. There is a neat utility that allows you to flash the bios. What are the benefits?
I hear w/ MSI it is a pretty safe procedure but why would I want to...would it help my games any? Would a vga flash have helped me w/ my troubles w/ UT2003?

 

[o770]

unlikely.
but if you'd feel like taking the risk then you could always do a test and some benchmarks.
video card bioses rarely will improve anything - despite other ppl say.
things to look for is better compatibility with drivers for ex.

 

[quegyboe]

Bios flashing is good for one thing...increasing default clock speeds. You can set overclocked clock speeds in the bios, and then make them perm.

 

[JCLW]

But be careful; some BIOSes are designed to work with a certain type of memory and will have different timings (CAS 2, CAS 3, etc) then others.

- JW