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Flash HD 7750/7770 bios to HD 7730

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AldRezaine

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I know its crazy and I'm a noob here but is it possible to flash the vga bios of Sapphire HD 7750/7770 to the entry level card HD 7730 to unlock its shaders? As far as I know they both have the same chipset which is the CAPE VERDE.
 
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you must mean 7730 to 7750/7770 and the answer to your question is no, unlocking shaders is not possible on that card or any recent card k.
 
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Why is it so? I mean, is the HD 7730 being hardware lock or something like that. I have seen diagram of cape verde architecture and found that some of its part are disabled thats why its shaders count decreases. I just need to know if its possible to enable those disabled parts by flashing the vga bios of HD 7750 to 7730. Maybe its lock only in the bios level.
 
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AldRezaine said:
Why is it so? I mean, is the HD 7730 being hardware lock or something like that. I have seen diagram of cape verde architecture and found that some of its part are disabled thats why its shaders count decreases. I just need to know if its possible to enable those disabled parts by flashing the vga bios of HD 7750 to 7730. Maybe its lock only in the bios level.
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It's not a software block, connections are physically laser cut. AMD learned their lesson with the 6950 (you could actually unlock those with a bios flash).

I suppose flashing the bios won't affect the cards (meaning, they'll still work) but won't have access to the cut CUs.
 
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Thank you sir for the information. I was planning to do the flash but I think its not worthy now.
 
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