Dell OEM GTX 260 1792 bios upgrade

tomm5151 · Oct 12, 2010, 01:05 PM

I guess it has been shown that the Dell GTX 260 216 1792mb card has been detuned. My question is can the Palit bios for a GTX 260 216 1792mb card located at the following link:
http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/5...92.090704.html

be flashed to the dell / alienware / hp OEM card without killing the card??

[Ion] · Oct 12, 2010, 01:06 PM

Detuned? I figure it should work

tomm5151 · Oct 12, 2010, 01:10 PM

apparently while it has the 216 shaders and 1792mb of memory, 192 shaders is all that is accessed. This was done (rumor) to reduce failures, overheating, power consumption???

[Ion] · Oct 12, 2010, 01:17 PM

I did not know that. I have the Dell GTX260 1792MB w/ 192SPs as well. This would explain a lot, because I thought that the 55nm ones were all 216SP.

Mind trying it to see if it works?

tomm5151 · Oct 12, 2010, 01:27 PM

I can't even find the spec pages for this Dell card. Do you have any links available??

[Ion] · Oct 12, 2010, 01:29 PM

Here's a discussion about it: http://en.community.dell.com/support.../19545598.aspx

And another guy with one: http://forum.pcstats.com/showthread....-child-GTX-260.
Another: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/27...y-underclocked

wolf · Oct 12, 2010, 01:34 PM

I dont think the palit bios will do you any kindness, I have the gainward GTX260 1792mb, 55nm c216, it's manufactured by palit (exact same design) and they use a non reference PCB and different clockspeeds. I wouldn't flash it on a Dell OEM.

hec I had no idea Dell was shipping PC's with GTX260 1792mb cards in them!

[Ion] · Oct 12, 2010, 01:39 PM

That's where I got my 260

I'll see if I can find any other GTX260 1792MB BIOS

tomm5151 · Oct 12, 2010, 02:41 PM

Check this out!!
http://www.sparkle-usa.com/downloads...01792D3SVP.pdf
and
http://sparkle-usa.com/products_grap...?cate=9&seq=48

cheezburger · Oct 12, 2010, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomm5151

I guess it has been shown that the Dell GTX 260 216 1792mb card has been detuned. My question is can the Palit bios for a GTX 260 216 1792mb card located at the following link:
http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/5...92.090704.html

be flashed to the dell / alienware / hp OEM card without killing the card??

if the oem did not providing the bios support then you're out of luck. because most of oem card are aftermarket and PCB layout may be different from reference and most of retail model. although even you can flash the retail card it's have to be under exactly same brand/vendor . like you can't flash evga bios on an asus board even they are the same gpu..

so all you can do is extract the bios from your card under nvflash(which is not really possible/or not easy since yours is f*** already...)save it than put it in another pc and start edit it with nibitor. i did this when my 9800gtx f***ed too

tomm5151 · Oct 12, 2010, 08:33 PM

Thought this was an interesting thread on the Dell Site: Same card

http://en.community.dell.com/support....aspx#19623148

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Oct 12, 2010, 01:06 PM	#2
[Ion] WCG Team Assistant Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: North Carolina, US Posts: 10,783 (7.86/day) Thanks: 8,302 Thanked 9,479 Times in 4,318 Posts System Specs	Detuned? I figure it should work __________________ Ion's WCG Essentials Thread Crunching (64 Threads + 896 CUDA Cores + 6272 Shaders): i3-2100@ 3.1 + HD7850 -- Atom D510 @ 1.66 -- C2D-M T9600 @ 2.8 -- i7-3612QM @ 2.8 -- i7-860 @ 2.9 + HD7950 -- i7-2700k @ 4.4 + 2xGTX470 -- PentDC-M T4200 @ 2.0 -- i7-920 @ 3.83 + 3xHD7770 -- DP Xeon E5420 @ 2.5 + HD7930 -- E1600 @ 2.4

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Oct 12, 2010, 01:17 PM	#4
[Ion] WCG Team Assistant Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: North Carolina, US Posts: 10,783 (7.86/day) Thanks: 8,302 Thanked 9,479 Times in 4,318 Posts System Specs	I did not know that. I have the Dell GTX260 1792MB w/ 192SPs as well. This would explain a lot, because I thought that the 55nm ones were all 216SP. Mind trying it to see if it works? __________________ Ion's WCG Essentials Thread Crunching (64 Threads + 896 CUDA Cores + 6272 Shaders): i3-2100@ 3.1 + HD7850 -- Atom D510 @ 1.66 -- C2D-M T9600 @ 2.8 -- i7-3612QM @ 2.8 -- i7-860 @ 2.9 + HD7950 -- i7-2700k @ 4.4 + 2xGTX470 -- PentDC-M T4200 @ 2.0 -- i7-920 @ 3.83 + 3xHD7770 -- DP Xeon E5420 @ 2.5 + HD7930 -- E1600 @ 2.4

Oct 12, 2010, 01:05 PM	#1
tomm5151 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 5 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post System Specs	Dell OEM GTX 260 1792 bios upgrade I guess it has been shown that the Dell GTX 260 216 1792mb card has been detuned. My question is can the Palit bios for a GTX 260 216 1792mb card located at the following link: http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/5...92.090704.html be flashed to the dell / alienware / hp OEM card without killing the card??

Oct 12, 2010, 01:10 PM	#3
tomm5151 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 5 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post System Specs	apparently while it has the 216 shaders and 1792mb of memory, 192 shaders is all that is accessed. This was done (rumor) to reduce failures, overheating, power consumption???

Oct 12, 2010, 01:27 PM	#5
tomm5151 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 5 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post System Specs	I can't even find the spec pages for this Dell card. Do you have any links available??

Oct 12, 2010, 01:29 PM	#6
[Ion] WCG Team Assistant Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: North Carolina, US Posts: 10,783 (7.86/day) Thanks: 8,302 Thanked 9,479 Times in 4,318 Posts System Specs	Here's a discussion about it: http://en.community.dell.com/support.../19545598.aspx And another guy with one: http://forum.pcstats.com/showthread....-child-GTX-260. Another: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/27...y-underclocked __________________ Ion's WCG Essentials Thread Crunching (64 Threads + 896 CUDA Cores + 6272 Shaders): i3-2100@ 3.1 + HD7850 -- Atom D510 @ 1.66 -- C2D-M T9600 @ 2.8 -- i7-3612QM @ 2.8 -- i7-860 @ 2.9 + HD7950 -- i7-2700k @ 4.4 + 2xGTX470 -- PentDC-M T4200 @ 2.0 -- i7-920 @ 3.83 + 3xHD7770 -- DP Xeon E5420 @ 2.5 + HD7930 -- E1600 @ 2.4

Oct 12, 2010, 01:34 PM	#7
wolf Performance Enthusiast Join Date: May 2007 Location: Enrichment Center for Aperture Laboratories Posts: 5,313 (2.38/day) Thanks: 1,676 Thanked 844 Times in 707 Posts System Specs	I dont think the palit bios will do you any kindness, I have the gainward GTX260 1792mb, 55nm c216, it's manufactured by palit (exact same design) and they use a non reference PCB and different clockspeeds. I wouldn't flash it on a Dell OEM. hec I had no idea Dell was shipping PC's with GTX260 1792mb cards in them! __________________ “my goal is speed, full ultra, and extreme gaming” -Ephraim “Yeah you can always overclock the 2gb memory to 4gb” -jaredpace

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Oct 12, 2010, 01:39 PM	#8
[Ion] WCG Team Assistant Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: North Carolina, US Posts: 10,783 (7.86/day) Thanks: 8,302 Thanked 9,479 Times in 4,318 Posts System Specs	That's where I got my 260 I'll see if I can find any other GTX260 1792MB BIOS __________________ Ion's WCG Essentials Thread Crunching (64 Threads + 896 CUDA Cores + 6272 Shaders): i3-2100@ 3.1 + HD7850 -- Atom D510 @ 1.66 -- C2D-M T9600 @ 2.8 -- i7-3612QM @ 2.8 -- i7-860 @ 2.9 + HD7950 -- i7-2700k @ 4.4 + 2xGTX470 -- PentDC-M T4200 @ 2.0 -- i7-920 @ 3.83 + 3xHD7770 -- DP Xeon E5420 @ 2.5 + HD7930 -- E1600 @ 2.4

Oct 12, 2010, 02:41 PM	#9
tomm5151 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 5 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post System Specs	Check this out!! http://www.sparkle-usa.com/downloads...01792D3SVP.pdf and http://sparkle-usa.com/products_grap...?cate=9&seq=48

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Oct 12, 2010, 08:33 PM	#11
tomm5151 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 5 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post System Specs	Thought this was an interesting thread on the Dell Site: Same card http://en.community.dell.com/support....aspx#19623148

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