Toxic R9 280X with a 280X Vapor-X BIOS?

[WhiteWolf3]

I recently bought a used R9 280X Toxic for about $100 at a garage sale. Paired it with a Ryzen 5 1600 for my rig I use in university. Wanted to flash the BIOS, but upon opening GPU-Z, I saw that it was flashed with a Vapor X 280X BIOS. I tried flashing compatible 280X (Hynix) BIOS but all I got was BSOD upon landing on the start screen. So, I flashed back to the BIOS that came with it and everything works as it was. I'm pretty confused. Is this supposed to happen? Is it possible for me to flash to the Toxic BIOS without the BSOD? 

My specifications:
Ryzen 5 1600
Sapphire Toxic R9 280X 3GB
Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4-2400
Gigabyte AB350M-DS2 AM4
Silverstone Strider Essential 500W

Driver: WHQL Radeon Software Crimson Relive 17.4.4

 

GPU-Z: http://

GPU:  http://

Upon hitting 'Lookup' on GPU-Z: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b2462/sapphire-vapor-x-r9-280x-oc

[luigi90210]

6 minutes ago, WhiteWolf3 said:

I recently bought a used R9 280X Toxic for about $100 at a garage sale. Paired it with a Ryzen 5 1600 for my rig I use in university. Wanted to flash the BIOS, but upon opening GPU-Z, I saw that it was flashed with a Vapor X 280X BIOS. I tried flashing compatible 280X (Hynix) BIOS but all I got was BSOD upon landing on the start screen. So, I flashed back to the BIOS that came with it and everything works as it was. I'm pretty confused. Is this supposed to happen? Is it possible for me to flash to the Toxic BIOS without the BSOD? 

My specifications:
Ryzen 5 1600
Sapphire Toxic R9 280X 3GB
Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4-2400
Gigabyte AB350M-DS2 AM4
Silverstone Strider Essential 500W

Driver: WHQL Radeon Software Crimson Relive 17.4.4

 

GPU-Z: http://

GPU:  http://

Upon hitting 'Lookup' on GPU-Z: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b2462/sapphire-vapor-x-r9-280x-oc

You can try flashing the bios with a different display adapter being used as your main display. 

 

I don't really understand the point of trying to go back to it's stock bios though. Does is perform better with it's stock bios? If it was me, as long as the card is working I wouldn't really care what bios it was on unless I was getting less performance or something. 

[3rrant]

Actually the Vapor-X BIOS should be the one with the best performance, more than any version of the Toxic TRIXX OC. So.. why would you change it at all? It shouldn't affect stability, it just gives more headroom for OC and out-of-the-box performance as well. 

[Tiwaz]

Vor 1 Minute sagte ErrantNyles:

Eigentlich sollte das Vapor-X BIOS dasjenige mit der besten Leistung sein, mehr als jede Version des Toxic TRIXX OC. Also, warum würdest du es überhaupt ändern? Es sollte nicht auf die Stabilität, es gibt nur mehr Headroom für OC und Out-of-the-Box-Leistung als auch. 

Ja, solange alles gut läuft, würde ich alles behalten, wie es ist. Ich würde nicht riskieren, eine Karte mit einem ausgefallenen BIOS-Blitz zu bauen, besonders wenn es so gut funktioniert, wie es ist

[3rrant]

Just now, Tiwaz said:

Ja, solange alles gut läuft, würde ich alles behalten, wie es ist. Ich würde nicht riskieren, eine Karte mit einem ausgefallenen BIOS-Blitz zu bauen, besonders wenn es so gut funktioniert, wie es ist

To see my post translated to another language and replied in that same language.. wow, that's weird. If you flash and nothing happen, it won't start acting strangely afterwards. You just need to stress it once after flashing to check up stability.

[Tiwaz]

5 minutes ago, ErrantNyles said:

To see my post translated to another language and replied in that same language.. wow, that's weird. If you flash and nothing happen, it won't start acting strangely afterwards. You just need to stress it once after flashing to check up stability.

lol i wrote it in english, i clicked somethign wrong in chrome so it translated everything  even all things on this page lmao

[WhiteWolf3]

9 hours ago, luigi90210 said:

You can try flashing the bios with a different display adapter being used as your main display. 

 

I don't really understand the point of trying to go back to it's stock bios though. Does is perform better with it's stock bios? If it was me, as long as the card is working I wouldn't really care what bios it was on unless I was getting less performance or something. 

It does get the job done and I guess the only difference are the clocks. On VBE7, the current BIOS has a 208 TDP and the Toxic BIOS has 180 TDP. Pretty much that is all the difference to it. Just curious me. 

[WhiteWolf3]

8 hours ago, ErrantNyles said:

Actually the Vapor-X BIOS should be the one with the best performance, more than any version of the Toxic TRIXX OC. So.. why would you change it at all? It shouldn't affect stability, it just gives more headroom for OC and out-of-the-box performance as well. 

I see. If so then I could stick with the Vapor BIOS instead of going to the Toxic one. Its just got a little confused beacuse the previous owner said he didint tinker around with the card's BIOS. So that's why im up and about asking.

[3rrant]

3 hours ago, WhiteWolf3 said:

I see. If so then I could stick with the Vapor BIOS instead of going to the Toxic one. Its just got a little confused beacuse the previous owner said he didint tinker around with the card's BIOS. So that's why im up and about asking.

He should have specified that he flashed. Just run stress test and some games to ensure stability, if it perform well keep it.

[luigi90210]

4 hours ago, WhiteWolf3 said:

I see. If so then I could stick with the Vapor BIOS instead of going to the Toxic one. Its just got a little confused beacuse the previous owner said he didint tinker around with the card's BIOS. So that's why im up and about asking.

you could be owner #3, so the person you bought it from might not have tinkered with the bios but someone before him could have and didnt tell him