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Switching GPU bios

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No different then using a custom bios. As long as everything is accounted for. Staying within manufacture's specs and heat. 

Used a custom bios on my last two cards for 3 years. Been over a year on my 3 current cards. 

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Good evening community :) Have a question related to GPU bios switching. Currently my GPU is R9 380 from MSI. It is a nice card and things, it works fine. I tried pushing some more juice out of it by overclocking the core clocks. I got from 980 mhz to 1050-1060 mhz stable, anything else above that just causes artifacts no matter how much voltage I put. Then I tried switching bios from another vendor - Sapphire. And with sapphire bios for r9 380 I managed to overclock to 1120mhz. Almost twice as much mhz than before. Temps were stable and everything seemed to be alright. So my question - is it safe to use another vendors bios for a long time? is there any danger?

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No different then using a custom bios. As long as everything is accounted for. Staying within manufacture's specs and heat. 

Used a custom bios on my last two cards for 3 years. Been over a year on my 3 current cards. 

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4 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

No different then using a custom bios. As long as everything is accounted for. Staying within manufacture's specs and heat. 

Used a custom bios on my last two cards for 3 years. Been over a year on my 3 current cards. 

good to know :) thanks for the answer and have a nice day :)

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