Best BIOS unlocks ever

[RGProductions]

In you opinion what are the best BIOS unlocks ever such as HDXX50 to HDXX70 and r9 270 to 270x, and we can't forget that famous AM3 core unlock! Also 1000th post!

[BrinkGG]

10 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

In you opinion what are the best BIOS unlocks ever such as HDXX50 to HDXX70 and r9 270 to 270x, and we can't forget that famous AM3 core unlock!

When Z170 boards were able to overclock the i3-61xx chips was pretty cool. Also the GTX 690 (i think...? One of the dual chip GPUs) when you could get driver software to see it as a Quadro. 

[RGProductions]

5 minutes ago, Brink2Three said:

 

Yeah sky OC was cool, too bad intel handled it like a dick. And the 690 into k5000 was really awesome too.

[MoonlightSylv]

I think there was a Fury>Fury X unlock.

[RGProductions]

Just now, ShadowTechXTS said:

 

WOW.

[MoonlightSylv]

Just now, RGProductions said:

WOW.

Someone on the forum did it, can't remember who though.

 

I'm thinking of getting a used Fury just for that reason.

[RGProductions]

8 minutes ago, Brink2Three said:

 

The 680 did it too.

[MoonlightSylv]

3 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

WOW.

http://wccftech.com/howto-checking-r9-fury-unlock-full-fury/

http://wccftech.com/amd-r9-fury-unlocked-to-fury-x-new-cuinfo-tool/

[MoonlightSylv]

Oh yeah, there's this too:

http://wccftech.com/xfx-r9-380-crimson-edition-unlock/

[RGProductions]

Just now, ShadowTechXTS said:

 

Don't you just love it when companies hide things like this?

[MoonlightSylv]

Just now, RGProductions said:

Don't you just love it when companies hide things like this?

It's kinda cool, but if some Fury cards can be unlocked to a Fury X, why do they cost less?

[RGProductions]

Just now, ShadowTechXTS said:

It's kinda cool, but if some Fury cards can be unlocked to a Fury X, why do they cost less?

Because it costs them less ultimately decided with their production run it is cheaper to just software disable a higher end card rather than start a new production

[Coaxialgamer]

1 minute ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

It's kinda cool, but if some Fury cards can be unlocked to a Fury X, why do they cost less?

it could be multiple things . companies disable cores for many different reasons . It could be :

-cores are not functional/stable

-cores can't reach performance targets

-cores can't achieve power/heat targets

-cores achieve company spec , however there isn't enough headroom ( companies don't like to have chips that are barely stable ) 

-financial : if the fury ( vanilla ) sells much more than the fury x , you can use those chips to achieve the required demand instead of having unwanted fury x's sitting in warehouses and not having enough fury stock . 

-and many more

 

[Sauron]

4 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

Don't you just love it when companies hide things like this?

 

3 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

It's kinda cool, but if some Fury cards can be unlocked to a Fury X, why do they cost less?

It's a matter of supply and demand, they aren't going to sell as many fury xs ad they will furys and since both were in short supply when they launched some of the least performing fury x chips were sold as furys. It costs them the same to produce both, they come from the same slabs of silicon, some simply don't work as well and are sold as lower tier - this happens with all gpus that are used across different cards and also in cpus.

[RGProductions]

Just now, Sauron said:

 

Couldn't say it better myself.

[NumLock21]

Old ATi Radeon GPUs from the HD2900XT to the HD4000 series can be converted to their more expensive FireGL workstation graphic cards, just by installing a driver mod. All the necessary hardware pieces are on the card. Going back to a Radeon card is as simply removing the driver mod and installing back the Radeon graphic drivers.

HD2900XT cost $500 during that time, it can be converted to the FireGL V8600 which cost $2,000.

[RGProductions]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

 

Nice, I have a 4000 series card I want to try that on.

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, RGProductions said:

Nice, I have a 4000 series card I want to try that on.

Not all of them can, just one card doe. Look under softmods

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_FirePro

[manikyath]

i'd be cool with a bios unlock for my acer laptop...

(i cri evritim...)

[RGProductions]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Not all of them can, just one card doe. Look under softmods

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_FirePro

[NumLock21]

6 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

Can always try it out, just looked up your card on some old forum and see if they got any info on it.