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Regarding Gigabyte 7950 WindForce

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Question,

I am currently on F42 bios, i am wanting to flash F3 bios, can someone please upload the bios file for me, and please tell me how to flash it as well.

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Question,

I am currently on F42 bios, i am wanting to flash F3 bios, can someone please upload the bios file for me, and please tell me how to flash it as well.

Thanks

I could...but I don't think you wanna run it. It clocks worse than stock BIOS.

Your card has different build than card for F3 BIOS, Gigabyte tells me, to running that BIOS may lead to issues.

I got a card direct from Gigabyte, it updated automatically using Gigabyte VGA@BIOS tool.

You are better off to flash 7970 BIOS. ;)
 
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I could...but I don't think you wanna run it. It clocks worse than stock BIOS.

Your card has different build than card for F3 BIOS, Gigabyte tells me, to running that BIOS may lead to issues.

Well with the stock bios f42 its running crap, i can not go from 900 to 1ghz and boost the ram to 1350. I have heard f3 it runs better.


This is my card model GV-R795WF3-3GD
 

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It only "runs better" because of higher voltage(1.25 V). It seems to be a "GHz" BIOS.

and yes, I have two of the same, one retail, one direct from Gigabyte. We have another user here who flashed 7970 BIOS with some success. I have as well, now, but just have had about 2 days with it, so I cannot judge much yet about it.

7970 BIOS runs 1.1 V with one monitor, while stock BIOS runs 1.09V with two monitors, so I feel fairly safe with it.


My cards, not much OC on GPU, but memory clockes pretty well on stock, over 1650.
 
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It only "runs better" because of higher voltage. It seems to be a "GHz" BIOS.

and yes, I have two of the same, one retail, one direct from Gigabyte. We have another user here who flashed 7970 BIOS with some success. I have as well, now, but just have had about 2 days with it, so I cannot judge much yet about it.

So which one should i flash f3 or the 7970 bios? anything would be better then f42 lol.
 

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Choice is yours, I guess, haven't had that user come back and say he had issues, quite the opposite, so in turn I flashed myself. Seems OK so far, but time will tell, I suppose.


Gigabyte told me there are several versions of this card, each has different parts used to make it, so cross-flashing BIOS isn't recommended. You'll be on your own, but there are guides here on TPU on how to flash BIOS, same things apply here, if it works. It is not perfect, really and sometimes flashing does not work and can brick card with the BIOS that was flashed. You can recover, of course, since dual BIOS is present...
 
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Choice is yours, I guess, haven't had that user come back and say he had issues, quite the opposite.


Gigabyte told me there are several versions of this card, each has different parts used to make it, so cross-flashing BIOS isn't recommended. You'll be on your own, but there are guides here on TPU on how to flash BIOS, same things apply here, if it works. It is not perfect, really and sometimes flashing does not work and can brick card with the BIOS that was flashed. You can recover, of course, since dual BIOS is present...

Can you please upload the F3 BIOS? and please tell me where i can get your 7970 bios? any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Because i have two cards here and i am wanting to crossfire them also.
 
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