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Anyone flashed their GTX 780 ?

Dicehunter

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Friend of mine in work flashed his 780 with a modded bios, Allows higher voltage tweaks of up to 1.2v which is Nvidia's max supported voltage for the 780, 100% fan speed should you so choose instead of the previous max of 80%.

Here's the link for forums, bios downloads, tool downloads etc... - http://forum.techinferno.com/forum.php

You need 5-10 posts on the forum to download the latest NVFlash

And here's a link to a step by step video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66AL6UCMuF8

It takes roughly 10 seconds to flash your card then you reboot and then there you have it :)

So far I've managed 1202/3206 stable and also 1202/3405 but haven't been able to test the latter due to being in work ^_^

*EDIT* If the power goes out during flashing kiss your card goodbye so make sure you have plenty of electricity on your meter ^_^
 
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Despite being a more expensive and newer card I wouldn't have thought flashing a GTX 780 would be any more difficult or risky than say flashing a fermi card.

Especially for unlocking max voltage and fan control, which is really easy.

If you're not editing clock/voltage performance states permanently via flashing, you really shouldn't have anything to worry about.

Just make sure you back up your stock BIOS first :)
 
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Don't see the point for an extra few FPS or points in 3dmark or whatever, saying that I'm not one of these people who gets excited over benchmark scores.
 
Bluntwrapped said:
Despite being a more expensive and newer card I wouldn't have thought flashing a GTX 780 would be any more difficult or risky than say flashing a fermi card.

Especially for unlocking max voltage and fan control, which is really easy.

If you're not editing clock/voltage performance states permanently via flashing, you really shouldn't have anything to worry about.

Just make sure you back up your stock BIOS first :)
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My fear is bricking the card due to the new bios not working or not installing properly, messing up my Warranty and £555.
 
After a few friends and fellow forum members *Different forum* testing a modded bios I flashed my 780, 1202/3206 stable and have the stock bios saved for if I ever sell the card :)
 
esoteric said:
My fear is bricking the card due to the new bios not working or not installing properly, messing up my Warranty and £555.
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Providing you only adjust max fan, max voltage and you don't have a power cut during the flash it would be pretty hard to brick the card. If you did somehow manage to screw it up you can always flash back to the stock bios.

Since you can do this, the warranty shouldn't be effected .

I'm not saying do it, if you have the overclocking headroom to justify it then maybe. If not, there really isn't much point.
 
johny dolan said:
I bricked a £250 mobo when a bios flash went pete tong.
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Did the same with the first XFX x58 mobo, but to be frank their bios update screwed up twice, taking the dual bios with it spite following the instructions to the letter with a bootable CD. Never touching that brand Again(same shipment had 2 faulty XFX 260 GTX Cards).
 
Dicehunter said:
After a few friends and fellow forum members *Different forum* testing a modded bios I flashed my 780, 1202/3206 stable and have the stock bios saved for if I ever sell the card :)
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i want to flash my card. do you have any links where to dowload bios from and maybe some guidance how to flash it? is it ti bios?
 
wojsku said:
i want to flash my card. do you have any links where to dowload bios from and maybe some guidance how to flash it? is it ti bios?
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Here's the link for forums, bios downloads, tool downloads etc... - http://forum.techinferno.com/forum.php

And here's a link to a step by step video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66AL6UCMuF8

It takes roughly 10 seconds to flash your card then you reboot and then there you have it :)

*EDIT* If the power goes out during flashing kiss your card goodbye so make sure you have plenty of electricity on your meter ^_^
 
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Dicehunter said:
*EDIT* If the power goes out during flashing kiss your card goodbye so make sure you have plenty of electricity on your meter ^_^
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Surely you can reflash a card with a duff BIOS? Even blind flashing, which was meat and potato stuff back in the day, you scaredy noobs :D
 
d_brennen said:
Surely you can reflash a card with a duff BIOS? Even blind flashing, which was meat and potato stuff back in the day, you scaredy noobs :D
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Yes you can but this is only doable if you have a 2nd GPU spare so you can boot back into windows, Can be anything, Even a cheapo HTPC card :)
 
Dicehunter said:
Yes you can but this is only doable if you have a 2nd GPU spare so you can boot back into windows, Can be anything, Even a cheapo HTPC card :)
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And don't have enough power cables to run another GPU, which would be my old 470, and my PSU probably doesn't have enough wattage too.

Glad to see your flash worked for you. Now to o/c it further! surely you can get more out of the memory.
 
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