Flash bios Asus Strix 1080 A8G to O8G help

[solz]

Hey,

It's my first time flashing a GPU bios and i hope you guys can help me out.

So i got the Asus 1080 A8G and im looking to flash the O8G bios onto it and got a couple of qeustions.

1. Is it actually worth it?

And if yes

Which one of the Bioses do i need to grab?

TechPowerUp

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Thnx for helping me out in advance

 

[potato580+]

if this is your 1st time, dont flash it just yet, wait for this person @eidairaman1

 

[solz]

if this is your 1st time, dont flash it just yet, wait for this person @eidairaman1

Yea no hurry

 

[Vayra86]

Pro tip, don't.

Gain is nearly non existant in real use cases and you do risk bricking the card. EVEN though the only difference is the boost clock range / manual OC. You stand to gain about 5% perf.

If you use MSI Afterburner, how much range do your power target and clock sliders have right now?

 

[solz]

Pro tip, don't.

Gain is nearly non existant in real use cases and you do risk bricking the card. EVEN though the only difference is the boost clock range / manual OC. You stand to gain about 5% perf.

If you use MSI Afterburner, how much range do your power target and clock sliders have right now?

I actually getting the card tommorow so i dont know yet i will get back to you when i got it.

 

[eidairaman1]

When you have the card in hand, post pics of the white stickers on card back or card heatsink before plugging into system, then after plugging in card get a gpu-z screenshot. Post clear pictures here

 

[solz]

When you have the card in hand, post pics of the white stickers on card back or card heatsink before plugging into system, then after plugging in card get a gpu-z screenshot. Post clear pictures here

I just recieved it, i will post GPU-Z screenshots when i get home and put it in my PC.

 

[potato580+]

I just recieved it, i will post GPU-Z screenshots when i get home and put it in my PC.
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bit question, why the sticker of barcpde got censored somehow, why would you do that for?

 

[solz]

bit question, why the sticker of barcpde got censored somehow, why would you do that for?

Haha i did that to hide the S/N not that it really matters cus its out of warranty but just to be sure

 

[potato580+]

Haha i did that to hide the S/N not that it really matters cus its out of warranty but just to be sure

ah make sense, sorry for bothering hehe

 

[Vayra86]

I just recieved it, i will post GPU-Z screenshots when i get home and put it in my PC.
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One sticker shows A8G and then the other has OC8G... I don't know what an A8G sticker should look like... but def check what BIOS is on there now and how GPUZ reads it. Might have gotten lucky.

 

[solz]

When you have the card in hand, post pics of the white stickers on card back or card heatsink before plugging into system, then after plugging in card get a gpu-z screenshot. Post clear pictures here

Here are the GPU-Z screenshots, for label stickers see my other post

 

[Vya Domus]

Why is the vendor EVGA though ?

Anyway, don't flash it.

 

[potato580+]

yup whys evga hmm

 

[solz]

Why is the vendor EVGA though ?

Anyway, don't flash it.

Yea weird, i switched it out for a EVGA 1080 tho maybe its bugged.

 

[eidairaman1]

Someone forceflashed a different bios to it

TechPowerUp

Extensive repository of graphics card BIOS image files. Our database covers submissions categorized by GPU vendor, type, and board partner variant.

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Back up your current bios using gpu-z, do you have an intel core i cpu or a secondary gpu and multi pcie 16x slot motherboard?

We are going to get the card back to stock

Here are stock files

Asus GTX 1080 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5X, 1671 MHz GPU, 1251 MHz Memory

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Asus GTX 1080 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5X, 1671 MHz GPU, 1251 MHz Memory

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Asus GTX 1080 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5X, 1671 MHz GPU, 1251 MHz Memory

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Asus GTX 1080 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5X, 1671 MHz GPU, 1251 MHz Memory

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OC files

Asus GTX 1080 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5X, 1785 MHz GPU, 1251 MHz Memory

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Asus GTX 1080 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5X, 1785 MHz GPU, 1251 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Power limit removed, LN2/Peltier overclockers

Asus GTX 1080 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5X, 1785 MHz GPU, 1251 MHz Memory

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More oc files

Asus GTX 1080 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5X, 1785 MHz GPU, 1251 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Asus GTX 1080 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR5X, 1785 MHz GPU, 1251 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

Yea weird, i switched it out for a EVGA 1080 tho maybe its bugged.

 

[fayer00]

Hi, sorry for reviving this thread but I have troubles with my GPU (this exact one!) I have my 1080 since 2016 and in the last 2 weeks the GPU started to crash like crazy.
i always did a deep clean every 6 to 12 month, never applied more OC to it or flash another BIOS. i had it full stock.
Over a month ago I switched from a 1080 display to a 1440 one without any problem until 2 weeks ago, I started seeing black flashes when playing netflix or youtube, but nothing on games.
and 1 week ago, I got black screen crashes, at random (on boot, while log in to windows, seeing videos and playing any games) some days it run without any issue a whole day and other I have to kill the power from the PSU to get it to boot :/
i have tried deep cleaning, DDU, clean windows install, change pciE slot, use another PSU cables and nothing, I'm waiting for a new set of psu cables from cablemod to try that.
what i want to ask you guys is if flashing a different BIOS will help or not?
I'm open to any suggestion because now a days its difficult to get a new GPU and on the other hand new GPUs will be launching later this year lol

Thanks and sorry for revive this 2 year old post

 

[eidairaman1]

You have a hardware fault that will not be fixed by a bios, replace the gpu.

Sapphire

 

[GerKNG]

there are two reason to flash a Graphics Card.

you want to achieve a record in some synthetic benchmarks with a special bios that lifts power/voltage limits or the card has a bricked bios or does not work as intended.

if none of this is the case don't do it. at best you gain nothing. at worst you have trouble to get it working again.

 

[Tatty_Two]

What make/model is your PSU and how old is it? Going to 1440 makes the GPU work harder and therefore likely draw more power, whilst this may not necessarily be the cause similar did happen to me a couple of years ago when I upgraded my monitor, it caused an aging average PSU to fall over the edge ...... slowly, at the time I could only get round it by playing a game in windowed mode.

It would help also if you could list your full system specs.

 

[Caring1]

Sounds like hardware memory errors.
Baking it might fix it.

 

[fayer00]

What make/model is your PSU and how old is it? Going to 1440 makes the GPU work harder and therefore likely draw more power, whilst this may not necessarily be the cause similar did happen to me a couple of years ago when I upgraded my monitor, it caused an aging average PSU to fall over the edge ...... slowly, at the time I could only get round it by playing a game in windowed mode.

It would help also if you could list your full system specs.

i have this PSU Super Flower Leadex Platinum SE 1000W 80+ Platinium
cpu amd 5600x
32gb ram crucial ballistix
MB asus tuf x570-plus
ssd 970 evo 1TB
and my asus strix 1080 a8g

Sounds like hardware memory errors.
Baking it might fix it.

how can I do this without a heatgun??



also, a did flash a new BIOS and now it's more 'stable'
I flash this one https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/197719/asus-gtx1080-8192-171016
I had this one https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/185903/asus-gtx1080-8192-160630

I manage to run 3 time 3d mark fire strike extreme without any issue but it crashes sometime

also I change the pciE gen from 4.0 to 3.0 (idk if this helps or not)

 

[eidairaman1]

i have this PSU Super Flower Leadex Platinum SE 1000W 80+ Platinium
cpu amd 5600x
32gb ram crucial ballistix
MB asus tuf x570-plus
ssd 970 evo 1TB
and my asus strix 1080 a8g


how can I do this without a heatgun??



also, a did flash a new BIOS and now it's more 'stable'
I flash this one https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/197719/asus-gtx1080-8192-171016
I had this one https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/185903/asus-gtx1080-8192-160630

I manage to run 3 time 3d mark fire strike extreme without any issue but it crashes sometime

also I change the pciE gen from 4.0 to 3.0 (idk if this helps or not)

As I said before the card is dying, replace it,

Sapphire

 

[fayer00]

As I said before the card is dying, replace it,

Sapphire

I know this, I just want to extend a little more the life of my gpu so I could buy this year new gen of GPUs. The 3000 family here in Chile are a lot more expensive than in the US and like you know with little to nothing stock

 

[eidairaman1]

I know this, I just want to extend a little more the life of my gpu so I could buy this year new gen of GPUs. The 3000 family here in Chile are a lot more expensive than in the US and like you know with little to nothing stock

Hence i said Sapphire