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Just got RX 470, how to safely flash 570 bios?

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Ended up flashing 570 retail bios from the most similar card that had all the settings the same besides cpu clock and no power restriction. Works fine so far and gives about 10FPS gain in benchmarks :) 

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I've just gotten new-old-stock Asus Mining RX 470 (I think it was a good choice considering the 70€ price). I've heard that these mining cards have some power restrictions and that flashing rx 570 bios gives some performance improvements. Last time I flashed a GPU bios was like 5 years ago so don't really remember much and things might have changed. 

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8 minutes ago, bololabich said:

power restrictions

in that case you should just flash in the bios of a standard RX 470. Do backup the stock bios before trying anything

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But why not rx 570 right away? I'll look for a bios that has similar CPU and the same RAM speeds and of course the same RAM manufacturer, but how about other things? Do I need to have other things matching like memory timings or sth?

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1 hour ago, bololabich said:

Ended up flashing 570 retail bios from the most similar card that had all the settings the same besides cpu clock and no power restriction. Forks fine so far and gives about 10FPS gain in benchmarks :) 

Keep a eye on your temps sometimes flashing another bios can make the card run  hot..

 

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