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HIS HD 3870 video card and bios flash - is it worth it?

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ironleg

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I have a HIS HD 3870 video card and have not founda flash from that company or how to do such things. I am curious if it is really worth it and if you will have extreme temps on air cooling or need a third party cooler for the video card. any help is greattly appriciated!

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the reason you havent found a bios on the his website to flash it with is because they dont want you to flash it and dont condone it as it voids the warranty, and you might bugger the card, whats the reason for flashing it ? you want to run higher clocks or change the fan speed settings ? all these can be done with software without the need for flashing and i wouldnt reccomend you flash the card unless for any of those reasons and you know what your doing, a bad flash can render the card useless if you dont know what your doing 100%
 
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What is the purpose in your need to flash?

Is it because its there to do, or are you haveing issues that you think the flash will fix?

Also I agree 100% with xman...If you flash it voids the warranty , and yes if anything goes wrong while flashing the card may never function again!
 
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Yup. While the actual procedure is a quite easy - research and make sure you know what you're getting into, etc. Nothing worse than killing a card just for a couple more 3DMarks :)

Personally I flashed my 8600GTS to a modest 720 / 1080 / 1512 (cpu, mem, shader). No need for software was really the only benefit (and the custom boot up message ;)). That was enough incentive for me. Might not be the case for others. I've also flashed just about every motherboard, optical, etc that I've ever owned - no problems so far <crosses fingers>
 
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I personally have flashed my Visiontek 3870 bios , and yes it is easy , if you dont get a hiccup while flashing. But the question still stands , why the need to flash?

Mine was based on the 862MHz core lock , and I wanted to OC the balls off my card. If you are not OCing there is really no need to flash at this point!
 
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If you do flash make sure you have a back up PCI vid card, blind flashing can be a bitch:cry:
 
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