EVGA "dual BIOS"

[Watashi]

I saw that EVGA's 1070 has a dual bios, is it accessed like your motherboard's bios? Or through your Operating System?

[Vellinious]

The EVGA 1070 and 1080 FTW both have a dual bios.  The bios is changed via a small switch near the 2 x 8pin input locations.

You don't actually access the bios...not on pascal, at least, not yet.  To overclock, you use either MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision X.  I highly recommend MSI's AB.

[Watashi]

I'm going to be getting the MSI Z170 Chipset board. And if you can't access the BIOs than what is the point of being there? does it serve any sort or purpose?

[Katsunaka]

It tells the Graphics card how to do its job.

 

Bios stands for Basic input output system. The CPU tells it to render the frames(input) it does that and renders the frames (output).

 

Without the BIOS you'd have the parts, but they wouldn't know what to do or how to do it properly. 

Think of the BIOS as the instructions everyone follows to do their job correctly.

[Watashi]

16 minutes ago, Katsunaka said:

It tells the Graphics card how to do its job.

 

Bios stands for Basic input output system. The CPU tells it to render the frames(input) it does that and renders the frames (output).

 

Without the BIOS you'd have the parts, but they wouldn't know what to do or how to do it properly. 

Think of the BIOS as the instructions everyone follows to do their job correctly.

So the BIOs takes what the CPU gives to the card, and renders it?

[Katsunaka]

 

 

Linus can probably explain it better, it's been a long time since I had to remember what exactly a BIOS is and does. 

[Hunter-97-G]

Don't buy an EVGA FlameThroWer Edition, wait for them to fix the VRM thermal pads or else get another model with Dual BIOS (though I think you're out of luck, Gainward and Palit don't sell in the US).

[Watashi]

9 hours ago, Hunter-97-G said:

Don't buy an EVGA FlameThroWer Edition, wait for them to fix the VRM thermal pads or else get another model with Dual BIOS (though I think you're out of luck, Gainward and Palit don't sell in the US).

They've announced that they're going to fix all of the cards without the thermal pads for free, I doubt they're going to put out multiple new batches with the same issue