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Is it possible to flash the BIOS on one of the fake Ebay 750Ti's to make it a legitimate 550Ti?

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I mean, it's a pretty straightforward question, but I have no clue about BIOS flashing with regards to graphics cards.

 

For those unaware, I'm talking about on of these graphics cards going around on Ebay, which have been getting a lot of coverage on YouTube recently. I bought one and want to legitimise it so that the BIOS says it's what it actually is.

 

Has anyone tried this?

 

Would I be able to flash it with a reference 550Ti BIOS? Where would I get the files to flash it?

 

I know it would serve no performance difference or any functional difference.

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@iamdarkyoshi has done this with many cards.

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Just now, iiNNeX said:

Why do people buy that junk....

 

Also on that advert further down it states: "Warm Tips: GPU Chip is second development. " .... What?!

Because it's actually a decent price for a 550Ti

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1 minute ago, JDE said:

@iamdarkyoshi has done this with many cards.

I was able to get one of them to become a fully functional 550Ti, but I'd highly reccomend owning a soldering station and spi programmer since nvflash had lots of issues for me

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1 minute ago, Pyroven said:

Because it's actually a decent price for a 550Ti

Some of them are GTS 450s AFAIK

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1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I was able to get one of them to become a fully functional 550Ti, but I'd highly reccomend owning a soldering station and spi programmer since nvflash had lots of issues for me

Did you make a post about it? I'm having trouble navigating your posts because I don't use the forum much.

 

What would the soldering iron be for? How would it fix issues?

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1 minute ago, JDE said:

Some of them are GTS 450s AFAIK

That's the fake GTX960s

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2 minutes ago, JDE said:

Some of them are GTS 450s AFAIK

Can confirm. One of mine took a 550Ti bios though and just showed reduced shaders and stuff.

 

1 minute ago, Pyroven said:

Did you make a post about it? I'm having trouble navigating your posts because I don't use the forum much.

 

What would the soldering iron be for? How would it fix issues?

The way I'm flashing the bios is by physically desoldering the chip and putting it into my chip programmer, programming it, and soldering it back onto the board. For some reason, the 550Ti refused to take any bios I tried to program using nvflash.

 

Note that these cards will rarely even have working fan speed control, and at best 1GB of videoram.

 

The 2GB 750Tis so far have actually been genuine, which I guess is reflected by their ~80$ price tag.

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I know PhilsComputerLab had to use a SPI programmer and a clip adapter to flash his card back without having to desolder, so it's not always going to be clear-cut as to whether you can flash them or not. His card was a GTS 450 though, so your mileage may vary. The situation is similar regardless of whether it is 550 Ti or 450.

 

 

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I will keep my GTX-650 that is stored away

So the 550ti would be about the same as 650?

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