HD 7950 bios hacking

[GrimHorror]

I am interested in bios hacking my new HD 7950 and am well aware of the risks that go into it such as bricking the card. Anyway I was wondering if it would be better to put an r9 280 bios on it or an HD 7970 bios onto the card. Suggestions and reasons plz.

[eLucid]

If you're asking these sorts of questions, you're better off not attempting it.

[mgsstar]

I am interested in bios hacking my new HD 7950 and am well aware of the risks that go into it such as bricking the card. Anyway I was wondering if it would be better to put an r9 280 bios on it or an HD 7970 bios onto the card. Suggestions and reasons plz.

If you have a dual bios switch on your gpu (near the crossfire fingers), if you mess up you are able to switch to the other bios and use your card but it may be a different profile than the first one so I would back it up. I would not flash if you only have one bios. In order to restore your gpu bios on the bios you messed up, boot with the working bios, switch the bios switch to the broken one and flash. What card do you have and what power connectors does it use? Flashing the bios i believe allows higher max voltages and clock speeds but I would only do it if you have a good chip and want to go past the max stock overclocks.

[GrimHorror]

I have the gigabyte windforce edition

[GrimHorror]

I just just checked it has a switch with the number 1 and 2

[mgsstar]

I have the gigabyte windforce edition

On the top of my mind, Gigabyte 7950 cards are voltage locked. I have been reading some discussion forums and I am seeing that some of the cards are voltage locked at a hardware level. Do you know the exact model number on your card (its on the box) and the clock speeds and voltages that it comes stock with? Have you tried overclocking on the card (if yes how much of a gain did you get with what kinds of voltages and clocks?)?