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  • A Sapphire Releases Performance-boosting BIOS for its R9-290

    - in Articles > Graphics Cards

    the same thing for its own R9-290, however, rather than releasing it in the form of a driver, it has released a new BIOS for the graphics card. While in practice you're unlikely to notice a difference between a driver fix or a BIOS fix

  • A EVGA Introduces Dual-BIOS Graphics Cards

    - in Articles > Graphics Cards

    EVGA is joining a number of other manufacturers and is also releasing a number of its graphics cards in versions with double-BIOS. Not only this, but three of its cards actually have three BIOSes rather than one (or two

  • A How To Overclock Your Graphics Card

    - in Articles > Components

    In the BIOS with NiBiTor As a preamble, we should make one point very clear: Before making any change to the BIOS, the card’s stability with the frequencies you’ve chosen has to have been checked first using the software route. If you push your card too hard

    CRABE and Flash Now that we’ve found the maximum frequencies our Radeon can handle, it’s time to make the overclocking permanent by writing it to the BIOS. The procedure is very similar to what we did for the GeForce card. But it requires specific

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    What to Do in Case of Problems Overclocking: Cold Sweat Time Conversely, hardware overclocking – modifying the BIOS – can generate problems that are a little more... exciting. First of all, the frequencies you had decided were stable after a few minutes of testing can prove

    Conclusion the more fearless among you venture into that territory if you want to. Finally, note that while we’ve focused only on overclocking, the utilities and BIOS editors we’ve used can also lower your card’s frequencies in order to limit power

    Introduction a CPU, and above all, it’s more complex. One of the reasons for that is that a graphics card’s BIOS is not as easily accessible as a motherboard’s. This article will shed some light on the different methods that can be used and the results

    Software or Hardware Overclocking? , or permanently by flashing your BIOS. The Flexibility of Software The first method is the best known. There are numerous utilities for AMD/ATI and Nvidia graphics cards. Their functions are often similar. The best ones let you set the operating

    nTune vs. RivaTuner : "Standard 2D," "Low Power 3D" and "Performance 3D." But those settings wouldn’t work with our GeForce, which was a shame. If you’re comfortable with all these drawbacks and caveats, you’re ready to go on to the next stage: changing the BIOS

  • A Report: Turn a GTX 680 Into A GTX 770 By Flashing Custom BIOS

    - in Articles > Graphics Cards

    , and unsurprisingly so, since the two cards are basically identical. By flashing the BIOS (.inf) file to the GTX 680 using the 320.00 driver before doing so, the card will be recognized as a GTX 770 and will run at GTX 770 specifications. The only

  • A Overclock Your Graphics Card in 5 Minutes

    - in Articles > Build Your Own

    Saving The Graphics Card BIOS In order to be able to undo any changes you make, you should save the board's original BIOS to your hard drive. 6. Save the BIOS data via the File menu. 7. Choose a name and click Save. 8. Confirm a successful save

    Saving The Graphics Card's New BIOS Settings Next, save the new settings to your hard drive using the Nibitor utility. For now, they have no effect on the card, though, as all changes have to be saved to a ROM file and then transferred to the graphics card BIOS. To simplify

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    Starting Nibitor And Acquiring BIOS Information Nibitor is a simple EXE file and does not need require an installation procedure; simply launch the tool with a double click. Once it starts, it will read your card's BIOS settings and information, as well as its clock speeds. Nibitor

    Oblivion Performance Up By 9.5% the card's BIOS. These settings are permanent and independent of the graphics driver, and the process is easily reversible. Games like Oblivion, which make extensive use of shader effects, benefit greatly from the increased pixel shader clock

    Determining The Optimal Clock Speed Beware! Overclocking and especially reprogramming your card's BIOS can damage your graphics card. Any changes you make are at your own risk. Also, you risk voiding your card's warranty. The first and most important step is determining

    Setting The New Clock Speeds the current clock speeds under Thrtl. Under 3D, enter the new overclocked frequencies, i.e. stock speeds plus 10%. If the card's BIOS already contains 2D and Thrtl values, leave these unchanged.

    Setting The Fan Speeds you see here are only valid for our MSI 8600 GTS test card. Unfortunately, the new settings did not have any effect after we reprogrammed the BIOS, since the card can't regulate the fan speed. If the graphics driver can't adjust fan speeds

    Booting In DOS Mode In order to flash the new BIOS to the graphics card, you'll need a DOS boot environment and a BIOS flashing utility called Nvflash. You can use a conventional floppy disk, a bootable CD or a USB stick as a boot medium. Whichever

  • A Report: GTX 870 Put Through Its Paces

    - in Articles > Graphics Cards

    for the performance preset. In comparison, this is right around the same level as the GTX 780 performs. The tests were performed on a system that carried the Intel Core i7-4820K Ivy Bridge-E processor. Unfortunately, the device ID and the bios version

  • A Radeon HD 6950 Into a 6970 With a BIOS Hack

    - in Articles > Build Your Own

    the same underlying technology, but apparently the cores are the same in both graphics parts. The only difference is the software that's flashed on the BIOS. It turns out that those who have a Radeon HD 6950 can simply reflash

  • A Update: Radeon R9 295X2 8 GB In CrossFire: Gaming At 4K

    - in Articles > Graphics Cards

    We spent our weekend benchmarking the sharp-looking iBuyPower Erebus loaded with a pair of Radeon R9 295X2 graphics cards. Do the new boards fare better than the quad-GPU configurations we've tested before, or should you stick to fewer c...

  • A Dell Releases BIOS Updates for Failing Nvidia GPUs

    - in Articles > Components

    Round Rock (TX) - Dell is offering BIOS updates to mitigate the effects of faulty GPUs shipped by Nvidia. The BIOS upgrade will not "repair" the GPU, but Dell hopes that the update will alleviate problems caused by the chip in most usage

  • A SLI Is Coming: Time To Analyze PCI Express

    - in Articles > Components

    Taping Connectors, Updating The BIOS BIOS version, and then blocking all unnecessary pins with tape as mentioned above. This is a pretty simple way to test slower transfer rates. PCI Express Lanes Bandwidth per Stream Bandwidth, duplex 1 256 MB/s 512 MB

    Motherboard: DFI LANParty 925X-T2 DFI gave us a BIOS which makes it possible to run at PCIe modes below x16. Click to enlarge. Our request for a suitable BIOS version was answered by the Taiwanese manufacturer DFI in less than 24 hours! Now we had to get started

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    Test Setup Intel Processors 800 MHz FSB (Dual DDR) Intel Pentium 4 Processor 560 (3.6 GHz) Motherboards Socket LGA775 DFI Lanparty 925X-T2 Intel 925X BIOS 925EDA05 Memory DDR2-533 2x 512 MB Crucial

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