Flashed bios on locked card, would it affect OC'ing, stability, etc.

Rewynd · Feb 3, 2016

I have the new sapphire nitro fury and I just wanted to see what would happen if I flashed the _3840 bios on to my card, it did nothing at all but my backup got deleted, would this bios cause issues with my gpu at all?

Kanan · Feb 3, 2016

Can't be that it did nothing at all. Normally it activates the deactivated shaders and if it works it works, if not you get problems. Or maybe they laser cut the chips now and it's not possible anymore to unlock it. I would first flash the stock bios on both bioses and then try the other 3840 bios on it, or don't touch it anymore, your choice. But get it back to stock first.

Rewynd · Feb 3, 2016

I don't have the stock bios anymore and TPU doesn't have one yet for my card, but it rebooted and didn't do anything at all honestly, I was just wondering if there may be a problem that could occur

Kanan · Feb 3, 2016

Okay, have you read that thread: http://www.overclock.net/t/1567179/...iji-unlockability-tester-ver-1-6-and-atomtool
? It's great information and provides the information you need, also some users posted stock bioses there, and you can ask for any help there. This is where everything started with unlocking the Fury, it's the source.

EarthDog · Feb 3, 2016

Maybe...

Test your card and find out.

Did you not save your BIOS before flashing?!! :twitch:

Rewynd · Feb 3, 2016

Well I did, but my comp is a wiener and deleted the folder after fixing permissions, I can oc pree well still and it doesn't crash so maybe its fine

EarthDog · Feb 3, 2016

Only way to know is to test it!

dorsetknob · Feb 3, 2016

Rewynd said:
Well I did, but my comp is a wiener and deleted the folder after fixing permissions, I can oc pree well still and it doesn't crash so maybe its fine

Best procedure for Back up is

KEEP A COPY OR MORE THAN ONE COPY ON DIFFERENT MEDIA IN SAFE SECURE PLACES

Not only does this apply to back upped firmware such as bios (both Video and Mainboard )
but for all your important files and Documents

Jetster · Feb 4, 2016

If it works your good

Rewynd · Feb 5, 2016

It works fine, lasering off the additonal CU's seems to have kept the card from being silly, 1135 on the core and 550 on the memory is incredibly stable, no problems at all.

Kanan · Feb 5, 2016

Rewynd said:
It works fine, lasering off the additonal CU's seems to have kept the card from being silly, 1135 on the core and 550 on the memory is incredibly stable, no problems at all.

You've tried other bioses and it still stayed with 3584 shaders? What a shame then. Was somewhat cool unlocking these cards. Btw. I think it's because you got the new Nitro.

Rewynd · Feb 5, 2016

Yeah, it being the newest fury I thought they might have lasered them, I thought about trying to swap it for the strix but I doubt theyd let me, or if it's even worth it

Kanan · Feb 5, 2016

Rewynd said:
Yeah, it being the newest fury I thought they might have lasered them, I thought about trying to swap it for the strix but I doubt theyd let me, or if it's even worth it

Well even if you would be so lucky unlocking all 4096 shaders, it would only be 10-15% faster at best (maximum utilization that is, so rather unlikely). Because the Nitro has the same clock as the Fury X. 1135/550 on the other hand is nice enough. I wouldn't change the card, the Nitro has a better cooler than Tri-X.

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Processor	i7 3770 @ 4.3GHz
Motherboard	Asrock Extreme4 Z77
Cooling	Seidon 120m
Memory	16GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600
Video Card(s)	Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro OC+
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Case	HAF 912
Power Supply	Raidmax Vampire 900W

System Name	eazen corp \| Xentronon 7.2
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Motherboard	Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus
Cooling	Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 w/ AM4 kit // 3x Corsair AF140L case fans (2 in, 1 out)
Memory	G.Skill Trident Z RGB 2x16 GB DDR4 3600 @ 3800, CL16-19-19-39-58-1T, 1.4 V
Video Card(s)	Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 2080 Ti modded to MATRIX // 2000-2100 MHz Core / 1938 MHz G6
Storage	Silicon Power P34A80 1TB NVME/Samsung SSD 830 128GB&850 Evo 500GB&F3 1TB 7200RPM/Seagate 2TB 5900RPM
Display(s)	Samsung 27" Curved FS2 HDR QLED 1440p/144Hz&27" iiyama TN LED 1080p/120Hz / Samsung 40" IPS 1080p TV
Case	Corsair Carbide 600C
Audio Device(s)	HyperX Cloud Orbit S / Creative SB X AE-5 @ Logitech Z906 / Sony HD AVR @PC & TV @ Teufel Theater 80
Power Supply	EVGA 650 GQ
Mouse	Logitech G700 @ Steelseries DeX // Xbox 360 Wireless Controller
Keyboard	Corsair K70 LUX RGB /w Cherry MX Brown switches
VR HMD	Still nope
Software	Win 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	15 095 Time Spy \| P29 079 Firestrike \| P35 628 3DM11 \| X67 508 3DM Vantage Extreme

Processor	i7 3770 @ 4.3GHz
Motherboard	Asrock Extreme4 Z77
Cooling	Seidon 120m
Memory	16GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600
Video Card(s)	Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro OC+
Storage	Seagate Barracuda 1TB/Samsung 850 Evo 120GB
Case	HAF 912
Power Supply	Raidmax Vampire 900W

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