Help w/ Custom Bios

[Nasty]

So I've been looking into how to get a custom bios on a G1 GTX 970 here. Anyways, I was going to download the middle BIOS for power or whatever. So am I correct that all you would do is do what the video says and it should be fine, or did things change by now. 

[Raudi_]

Should be how it goes, but remember if you brick your card it is your own doing and you have no warranty to cover it as flashing the custom bios voids the warrenty

[Nasty]

Should be how it goes, but remember if you brick your card it is your own doing and you have no warranty to cover it as flashing the custom bios voids the warrenty

I do realize that but what would there to be gone wrong? If I follow everything as follows it should potentially go smooth? Or is that not always the case.

[Raudi_]

I do realize that but what would there to be gone wrong? If I follow everything as follows it should potentially go smooth? Or is that not always the case.

Its never always the case. You need to make sure the BIOS is meant for the memory type that your card is. Flashing the wrong BIOS can brick the card and getting into the second bios is a bit of a hassle as well

[Nasty]

Its never always the case. You need to make sure the BIOS is meant for the memory type that your card is. Flashing the wrong BIOS can brick the card and getting into the second bios is a bit of a hassle as well

Ok, I literally just got the card 2 days ago. Not going to take the risk. Thankyou for your input. I can stand the noise level.

[Vellinious]

Ok, I literally just got the card 2 days ago. Not going to take the risk. Thankyou for your input. I can stand the noise level.

It's not that hard to flash a bios...you'd literally have to be a brain dead monkey, drooling on your keyboard to mess up the flash.  There are a couple of hundred different custom bios versions out for the G1, all the way from stock voltages and clock settings with increased power limits to extreme water cooling bios versions with 1.312v, boost disabled, increased power limits and base clocks at around 1531.

If you're interested, these guys can help you.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1573308/nvidia-gtx-900-cards-custom-bios-upon-request/970

[Enderman]

I do realize that but what would there to be gone wrong? If I follow everything as follows it should potentially go smooth? Or is that not always the case.

a lot can go wrong

even if you follow the instructions its not guaranteed that it will work, and you could end up with a bricked card

 

tbh its not worth risking $300

if you want more performance buy a better GPU

[Vellinious]

a lot can go wrong

even if you follow the instructions its not guaranteed that it will work, and you could end up with a bricked card

 

tbh its not worth risking $300

if you want more performance buy a better GPU

It's not that hard to recover from a bad flash...even if you do trip and fall on the fail button and happen to mess it up somehow.  Plus....pretty sure the G1 has a dual bios.

I've flashed my cards probably 40 times in the last few months, trying different settings.  Do you know how many times the flash failed?  If you guessed "none", you'd be right.  lol