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WARNING VBIOS FLASHING CAN BRICK YOUR GPU IF YOU FLASH THE WRONG BIOS A SECOND GPU AS A BACKUP WILL BE NEEDED IN THE EVENT THIS HAPPENS essentially this post is to help those looking to unlock the full potential of there cards that have been wrongfully neutered by fake power limits when clearly these cards have a VRM design that can handles peeks of 400watts AND MORE so far the cards that i have found on forums that can be crossflashed with higher powerlimits FEEL FREE TO ADD TO THIS IN THE COMMENTS WITH YOUR SOURCE PLEASE zotac 3070 twin edge oc(240watts) flashed to a asus bios (270watts) "im still looking for people who have successfully flashed the FTW3 bios to this card but no luck even though it has a 10phase of 50amp parts capable of handling 474watts" https://www.reddit.com/r/ZOTAC/comments/lsb0sj/3070_twin_edge_oc_flashed_to_270w/ evga 3070 xc3 black(270watts) flashed with FTW3(300watts) https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/kxy5yp/rtx_3070_xc3_with_ftw3_bios/ gigabyte 3070 gaming oc (non pro)(270watts) flashed with strix(350watts) card is limited by the power connectors since some models use a 8+6 pin for power (310watts GPUz reported power)cannot find original reddit that shows gpuz https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/jpkwh1/gigabyte_gaming_oc_3070_bios_flashed_to_aorus/ https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/w2qonz/how_to_get_even_more_performance_out_of_a_gpu_for/?sort=old msi 3070 ventus x3(220watts) flashed to auros master(300watts) https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/js4ngj/rtx_3070_flashing_bios_to_rtx_3070_ventus_3x_oc/

Please Help, condition: 1.I got my MSI Armor RX 570 flashed for mining, bricked it out but I brought it back using original rom. - My pc dont have iGPU so i paired another GPU to help flash it. > bricked on 16x PCI-e, workin GPU on riser. 2.after restart it worked fine and and i can use both of my GPU to mine a little bit and light gaming (just a short testing). 3.Later I turned off PC, next time when i started my pc it wont boot... 4. I tried to switch slots with my other 2 gpus ( i have 2x RX 570 and 1xRX 5700xt) still no change. Please help, thank you... (attached screenshot of gpuz when it worked before)

I just got a Eurocom P5 PRO (clevo p750zm) and I wanted to flash it with a prema bios but it seems like the website is down and the bios is nowhere to be seen. I was wonder if any of you guys knew where I could find an archived download to a prema bios to it? Thanks

Hi everyone, I know this isn't recommended and laptops don't cool well but i have a large laptop pad and the gfx card only gets to 70c under full load. Is there a bios mod somewhere for my GE72 2qf gtx 970m? I have unlocked voltage control and monitoring but i can barely increase the voltage and it doesn't seem to actually change it. Also I would like to increase the core clock by more than 135MHz. I have heard of people doing it with the 960m but I can't find any custom BIOS'. Thanks!

i cant use mmtool to put microcodes into my bios as dell has the file as exe instead of rom ive tried going into cmd and doing /writeromfile nothing works how do i get a pre modded bios? or a rom file for my vostro 220 series

Hi, I own an asus gtx 660 directcu ii and want to overclock it a little bit more than the ''official'' amount ;so i want to add more voltage to the core (im currently at a very low and locked 1.1620 V), i tried changing the bios with nvflash and kgb but it didn't work, and i unlocked the msi afterburner core voltage tweaker but it doesn't count ,no matter how much i add im always at 1.1620 V. What can i do to unlock the core voltage anymore ?

Hello people, I know it's a weird question and yes I know there's not much advantage in overclocking these but it's for pure entertainment I would like to know if it is possible to mod the bios of my motherboard in such a way to control bclk overclocking, I have an ASUS Z9PE-D16 motherboard that I bought on ebay as faulty for a steal and I would like to play with it a little... I have a couple of 2690V2s in it at the moment that run at 3GHz base on all 10c/20t each. I would like to push them a little because I saw people managing a pretty awesome 3.5/3.6 on these which is fantastic... now granted I don't need to go that high... Is it possible?? Is there someone in here with the required knowledge who could tell me how to do it? Thanks a lot and a good day to everybody!

Hi! There are several videos and tutorials on how to make coffee lake cpus (8th gen) work on z170 motherboards (6th gen). I was wondering if it would work on a z170 motherboard which supports ddr3. I don't plan on building such a system (i7 2600k still serves me well), this is more a "What would happen?" question.

i am seriously considering finally biting down and bios modding my GPU to max out the voltage limit and get the highest overclock possible. however i have never done any bios modding before so i need all relevant info on bios modding Kepler (gtx 600 series) cards. also i need to know all possible risks involved and how to go about reversing any negative effects. essentially i need a full bios mod guide. please only comment if you have experience and have done bios modding with a 600 series card!

Several months ago I purchased a Lenovo Legion Y530, I chose this one based on performance and size and finally budget, so an i7 8300H and GTX 1050. The one thing I definitely wished I could get was at least the 8750H. Anyway, I was thinking of a future project, because I am content with performance for now, where I upgrade this CPU to the six core 8750H. Now, I did some research and the Y530 comes in many flavors, 8750H, GTX 1050 TI, 1060 and so forth. I am going on a limb here and assuming that the motherboard in all flavors is largely the same. When it comes to the CPU power delivery, the topology should be the same as the 8750H and 8350H have the same TDP spec, though the 8750H should naturally draw more power. These CPUs are all FCBGA1440, and while I cannot verify, they must be pin-compatible just by going by the pin count. And if we cross our fingers and hope that Lenovo compiled their BIOSes for all flavors and just distribute the same(or nearly the same) BIOS binary to all flavors, then is it not reasonable to assume that it should detect the newer CPU? Again, assuming that the old one was removed without damaging nearby components and the new CPU soldered correctly. I know I am talking about a laptop, but it is specific to CPUs and Motherboards, so I posted this here. Anyway, what do you guys think?

Hi everyone, A few days back I got 2 Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 4gb (elpida) GPU. I've seen many people on internet modding their bios & getting a better hashrate than before. As I'm new to bios modding, I tried to download some modded bios. But, it seemed the SKU value is different in all cases. For my model the SKU is-11265-07-41G. Rather than having this SKU value I've found 11265-07-20G in all modded bios on the internet. The fun fact is when I click LOOKUP in GPU-Z it refers me to a web page of 11265-07-20G SKU number. Would this be a problem if I apply those modded bios? I've also found different bios for different Algo. Such as, for ETH there's a different bios & for XMR their is a different bios. I'll mine with Nicehash. Currently Nicehash has selected DaggerHashimoto for my card. It(the algo) may change overtime. So, how can I tell which bios mod is best suitable for different types of algo? I'll play games in my desktop. So, it would be better to have a non-aggressive modded bios.(Can I really play games using modded bios?) Is there any good Tutorial regarding bios modding & is there any chance that the GPU may degrade in time(3-4 years)? Some redditor claimed that their GPU degraded in a few weeks. Thank you All.

I have an msi 970, bios modded it and overclocked it. I have tested multiple games with it, performance increase is pretty big. I pushed this card to the limits, every game I played was on max settings at 1440p. I'm not sure if there is anyone here that has done the same thing I have, but I found this interesting so i'll share it here. I left the videos uncut. The 970 once overclocked can still be a very good card considering every game I tried had above 40fps, apart for gta. I'll link videos once they're uploaded. First game I tried was; The Witcher 3. Everything is on ultra and hair-works is on. Getting around 40fps on average, it does spike to 50 which you can see in the video but it did not stutter and felt very smooth when playing. Second game I tried was; Far cry 5. Once again, fully maxed out apart from resolution scale? I don't know what that is all that I know is it just tanks my fps. I get 50-60fps on max. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqRvVRtn8-Y The last game I tried was; GTA5 Everything was maxed out except for msaa which I left on 4x. Once the card hit its max vram, fps started to drop. It wasn't throttling, it stayed at 1579mhz the whole time in the game. It really did make my 970 perform better is most games, I noticed an improvement. 1580mhz and 4110mem clock. Tdp increase, voltage mod, along with a slight l2c, xbar and sys overclock.

Hey all, I just wanted to share something with a lot of you, as I am not sure it was that well known. A Custom bios With Nvidia Kepler and Maxwell GPUs you are almost always limited by +135 for your overclock. Until recently my main machine was a mid-range $900 2013 laptop Acer v3-772g. i7-4702mq (4c/8t), 16gb ram, SSD and comes with a Nvidia GTX 760m which is a Kepler-series card with 768cuda cores. The base clock on this around 650mhz + gpu boost 2.0. Using the usual overclocking tools you can increase this by a max of +135mhz. So 785mhz and boost gives you a little more usually around 850mhz. Well, I flashed a custom bios that not only unlocks certain bios options it also remove the +135 limit. I can run my 760m, which has a base clock of 650mhz at up to 1150mhz, but I get the occasional crash at that level but 1100mhz is stock stable at +12.5mV. (or ~1055mhz without increasing voltage. ). I also run my memory at +600mhz but I haven't tested the limits on that because core clock is usually much more useful Without this bios upgrade I would have replaced the system much earlier then I did. It usually adds between 10-15fps on a per game basis. Running recent games like Assassins Creed: Origin or Final Fantasy XVI was not what I considered playable even when dropping resolution down to 1280x800p, those games easily run at 20-30fps with a stock overclock. With the vbios unlocked a game that had drops to 25fps now has a lowest drop to 35-40fps that makes a WORLD of difference. I run pubg at 1600x1050 with AA and textures at Medium and get drops to no less then about 40fps (usually in the 50s), With a stock overclock I could get drops below 30fps Now not a lot of people go to the effort of either editing the bios themselves (which is what I did after a ton of research) or dump their bios and send it someone online to do for them. I actually have the 2nd highest 3dmark timespy dx12 score for card, aswell as the 1st place for 765m since the first 7 scores are with 765m's in SLI. I wonder if the first score for the 760m is legit because his score is leap and bounds ahead of mine even though my clock speed is higher. I'd like to point out that Doom seems to be strange case for me when overclocking. I run at 1440x900p on medium details and a lot of the time I get 60fps with drops in big scenes down to low 40s. In this game the difference in this game between stock and overclock is only 2-3fps in those scenes. Every other game shows significant increases (an extra 10-15fps is KING when your base fps is only 30) Overclock.net, techinferno, and bios-mod.com all have threads up with people who do bios modding for free (although they appreciate a tip)

I'm looking for one that lets me diable my dedicated gpu,, since the hardweare method didn't get the job done , (old post) Since I finally got time to resolder the coil and the external display is still full of green artifacts but the link to the bios I found was deleted,

When i try to flash my 760 bios with the nvflash -4 -5 -6 BIOS.rom command it just says ERROR: Failed to merge inform image. Does anyone know what this means or how to fix it? EDIT: Completely forgot to mention this problem is probably happening because i did not use the -4 -5 -6 commands. BUT if i do use them the flashing process will not even start and if i dont the first mentioned problem of merging inform images will happen.

Hello everyone, I would like to unlock some features of my old Supermicro X8DT3-LN4F Motherboard. It's a dual Xeon motherboard eATX format with AMI bios. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DT3-LN4F.cfm Do you think it's possible ? I have 2 Xeon E5520 attached on it, and I heard this CPU can be easily overclocked to 3Ghz (stock frequency is 2,2Ghz). So I would like to try. Is there a way to do that ? Thank you very much for your help and kindness ! I wish you an happy new year.

Hello, I have an r7 240 2gb laying around and i decided to see how much I can overclock it just for fun. I am using msi afterburner in unofficial overclocking mode and am now stuck on the core clock, as you can see in the image I posted. My memory is as far as it can go before it causes instability. I cannot get the voltage unlocked. I have dumped the bios and it is a256kb file. RBE cannot open it, as it says it is an incompatible BIOS. I was wondering if anybody could tell me if there is anothe BIOS mod tool for this card?

Alright, for those of you that are less keen with overclocking their Kepler graphics card, I'm here to provide the information that I know. If I mess anything up, feel free to leave me a message or comment, and I'll fix it up. You'll obviously want to install the latest version of MSI Afterburner (I think it's the best) and GPU-Z. I'm not liable for damages or explosions inside your computers. :P So, here are the majority of the terms for overclocking Kepler. (Picture included) First off, you will have a core voltage setting. The core voltage is the voltage applied to the GPU processor. Generally speaking, the higher the voltage, the higher the clock speed your GPU can reach. Now, for Kepler cards, you don't have to worry about damaging your card with voltages, because Nvidia decided to put a software lock on voltages at 1.15 volts. Most voltage controllers can supply 1.21 volts max to the core. Even though most cards would be capable of handling 1.3 volts if they had a decent heatsink to cool the card. Most of the clock speed adjustment is done automatically by the Kepler core anyways. Next, you have your power limit. Kepler will dynamically adjust it's clock speed and voltage to stay inside the power limit. Now, increasing this to the max does NOT hurt your card. It allows it to have 'breathing room' to max out it's clock speed. I'll go more into BIOS adjustments later, but you can change the maximum values so the card has even more room to breathe. Core clock and memory clock are pretty self-explanatory. You can increase these to make your clock speed on your GPU core or memory go higher. When you increase these too much, your computer will either crash completely, or reset the graphics driver. Your options after the crash are either to decrease your overclock, or to increase your voltage. Fan speeds are important to keep your graphics card cool. You can keep the automatic profile, or you can go into MSI Afterburner's settings and create your own profile. Adding to this, Nvidia decided to add many 'throttles' to their graphics cards, specifically at 70, 80, and 90 degrees Celsius. When your card hits each one of these temperature thresholds, the clock speed of your core will drop by 12mHz. This is an attempt to keep temperatures in check. If you have an 'overclocking ready' MSI Kepler card, there will be an arrow box next to core voltage, and this will allow you to overvolt the memory and PLL chip. These will allow for slightly higher clocks on the memory, PLL will SOMETIMES give slightly better stability with an overclock. On Kepler cards, there are two different types of clock speeds, well, technically three. You will have a base (core) clock, which is the baseline 3D speed that your graphics card will operate at. If the load gets high enough (I've seen around 40-50% usage) the card will move up to its boost clock speed. This will give better performance obviously. From the boost clock up to the maximum boost clock, the card takes power limit, temperature, and graphics load into account, and changes the speed accordingly. Now, GPU-Z will give you the core clock and the boost clock, but not the maximum boost clock. You'll have to load your graphics card's BIOS into an editor to see that. The overclocking 'technique'. (You'll need a benchmark/stress test like Unigine Heaven on my screenshot. Max out the settings for that.) Basically, whenever I overclock my card, I will start from the default values. Overclock one part of your card at a time. Increase the core clock by 25-50mHz at a time. Stress test that for around 2 minutes, and if it succeeds, then increase the core clock again by 25-50mHz. Repeat that until you get a crash. At that point, you can increase the voltage, or step back the overclock by 10mHz, until the card becomes stable again. Repeat this with all other parts that you want to overclock. Make sure you take your time with this, rushing won't benefit you all that much. Now, after you're done with the majority of overclocking, stress test your card for an hour by playing a really intensive game, or just using the benchmark. This will prove the stability of the card, and just drop the clock speeds by a little if there's instability. WARNING WARNING This part can mess up your graphics card if you do it wrong or play with settings that you aren't supposed to! I'm not liable for damages or broken cards! Now comes the intensive part, for those who aren't afraid to tinker with settings that can void your warranty. From overclock.net, there are a load of BIOS editing tools and flashing tools. http://www.overclock.net/t/1289489/gtx-600-series-unlocked-voltage-bios-downloads-and-tools For me, I downloaded NVflash so I could flash my BIOS, and I got a separate program to edit my BIOS from technic3d.com. http://www.technic3d.com/download/overclocking-und-monitoring-tools/532-kepler-bios-tweaker-v1.25.htm Download the 1.25 version, and extract it with whatever program you like, such as 7zip. Now, on GPU-Z there is a box next to your BIOS version (1st tab) that you can click to save your bios. Save it where ever you like, just remember where it is, and open the .rom file with the kepler bios tweaker. There will be many options, but the ones that we are really interested in are the power limits (in watts), and the maximum voltages (voltage tab). Keep in mind the software reads in milliwatts and microvolts. 1210000 is equal to 1.21 volts. 225000 is 225 watts. To solve for your MAXIMUM wattage for your card you need to know the power connectors. A 6 pin can give 75 watts of power, an 8 pin can give 150 watts. The PCI slot itself gives 75 watts, so just add those together to get your maximum wattage. My 6x6 pin GTX 670 has 225 watts. or 75 + 75 + 75. You really only need to change the maximum values, change the left and right ones as well (unless your version looks different.) Maximum voltage can be thrown straight to 1.21 volts, as I doubt this will hurt your graphics card in any way. You shouldn't change the other voltage settings. You can tinker with other setting if you'd like, but do your research and use common sense. Your idling voltage shouldn't be 1.21 volts. :P After you're done editing, save the bios, and follow the BIOS flashing tutorials on the overclock.net link. After the card is flashed, reboot your computer, and play with your new settings! You may need to reinstall your drivers or MSI Afterburner for them to work properly. It's really late at night here, so if I've messed up at all, let me know. If anyone has questions, I'll get back to you ASAP. I'm not the Kepler super-genius, but I have learned quite a bit about it. I'll fix any errors or things that I got wrong, just message me or comment below. Thanks guys! Chaotic