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What BIOS to flash on a MSI R9 280X LE

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I've just installed two of these into my machine and they seem to be happy.

Under heavy load though (cgminer mostly) one card gets quite a bit hotter than the other (85-90c compared to 80-85c on the other). That's hotter than I'm comfortable with.

I've seen other people mention flashing the card may reduce temps somewhat, but I have no idea what BIOS to use. I'm assuming as the LE is the same card as an OC I can just use this one http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/146769/msi-r9280x-3072-131009.html

Currently GPU-Z says that both cards are running 015.040.000.001.003435. As this other BIOS is 015.040.000.000.003435 surely that's a downgrade?

I'm worried about frying something either through heat or a bad bios flash!
 
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