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3870 bios flashing.. gecube turbo..

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i have managed to locate a gecube turbo bios.. i think its clocked at 800 core and 1240 memory.. i aint bothered about the clock speeds but i think it sets 70 C as its target temp as opposed to a more normal 90 C for these cards..

using winflash i have flashed several different bios with no problems.. with this one i get a "sub systems dont match" message with the option to continue..

being a cowardly bugger i didnt.. he he..

i would like my card to run cooler as its default.. but.. ???

any thoughts on this.. ????

or any willing victims wanna try it if i upload it :eek:

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Well... since YOU found it... :p
 
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I downloaded this BIOS as well, but haven't tried flashing it.

Poking around in it with a hex editor it seems to have the core voltage at 1.254V though, which is lower than 1.327 for the standard BIOS :confused:
 

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its a shame that there is no flashing emulator........
 
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Want to up the fan speed, disconnect the fan and give it straight 12 volt from your psu...
That will give it some punch!
 
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Want to up the fan speed, disconnect the fan and give it straight 12 volt from your psu...
That will give it some punch!

dont be silly.. he he he..

i dont want bloody deafening.. just to run my card reasonably quiet at 70 C while gaming instead of totally inaudible at 90 C which is how it is by deafult..

i recon the gecube bios might do this.. i dont want to have to piss about with doing it manually in rivatuner either..

ati have gone for silent running at 90 C.. i would prefer a little noise at 70 C.. all done automatically with no pissing about..

:toast:

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here it is.. :)

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I've used rivatuner to control my fan speeds. I use the following settings:

>60°C 50% Fan
>70°C 75% Fan
>80°C 100% Fan

To force the fan to slow down I also use these. Setting them at these speeds will stop the fan constantly changing speed as it bounces around one of the threshhold levels:

<52°C 25% Fan
<62°C 50% Fan
<72°C 75% Fan

I only use 25% 50% 75% & 100% fan because when I created the profiles for other speeds they didn't work properly.

For desktop 2D the fan normally sits at 25%. For light 3D the fan normally sits at 50%. For heavy 3D the fan normally sits at 75% with a core temp at around 64°C.

You can of course change these values to whatever you want, but I find these settings to keep my temps below 70°C quite well.
 
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IF your worried about the flash load the bios with "ram bios" first & see if it works
 
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I've used rivatuner to control my fan speeds. I use the following settings:

>60°C 50% Fan
>70°C 75% Fan
>80°C 100% Fan

To force the fan to slow down I also use these. Setting them at these speeds will stop the fan constantly changing speed as it bounces around one of the threshhold levels:

<52°C 25% Fan
<62°C 50% Fan
<72°C 75% Fan

I only use 25% 50% 75% & 100% fan because when I created the profiles for other speeds they didn't work properly.

For desktop 2D the fan normally sits at 25%. For light 3D the fan normally sits at 50%. For heavy 3D the fan normally sits at 75% with a core temp at around 64°C.

You can of course change these values to whatever you want, but I find these settings to keep my temps below 70°C quite well.

trouble is it dosnt remember and needs doing every time.. something that simply does the job without need for regular user intervention is far better.. your settings are about right thow..

trog
 

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You can set rivatuner to automatically start on windows boot via Startup registry key, and it will run the custom fan settings. I don't need any user intervention at all between reboots for this setup.
 
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You can set rivatuner to automatically start on windows boot via Startup registry key, and it will run the custom fan settings. I don't need any user intervention at all between reboots for this setup.

u might be able to but i cant.. are we talking about the same grafix card here or what rivatuner should do with whatever it works with..???

all i can do with rivatuner is set a fixed speed.. anything else quite simply dosnt work.. it dosnt work with atitool either.. if it did i would be using it.. not looking for a bios fix.. :)

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I have a 3870, like you.

Setting up fan profiles in Rivatuner is a rather long task, too much for me to explain here, but in a nutshell you have to:

set custom speeds for 25% & save it
set custom speeds for 50% & save it
set custom speeds for 75% & save it
set custom speeds for 100% & save it

You then need to create a launcher for each of these 4 fan speeds.

You then need to create a threshhold for each setting where you want the fan to change based on a temperature (I made 7 threshholds)

Too much for me to explain, but there are guides on the net, here is one you might use. The only difference between my setup and that guides is that it uses the same temperature threshholds to increase and decrease fan speeds, while I use different settings to avoid the fan changing speed as the temperature bounces around a threshhold.

Some more info on my setup - Windows XP x64, I've uninstalled CCC (I found it to be a POS) and I use a hacked BIOS for overclocking, and I use rivatuner 2.06 for controlling my fan speeds
 
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It seems that automatic flash tool is needed here ;). Post (attach) the BIOSes and I will prepare Xmas present for you guys :toast:.

Wow, dolf you live!!! :toast:This guy is the reason I logged into TPU for the first time, to unlock the pipes on my old Sapphire x800gto! The card is still alive and kickin' butt btw. Thanks!:D


Frogger and trog in the same thread, are you guys cousins?:laugh:
 
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I have a 3870, like you.

Setting up fan profiles in Rivatuner is a rather long task, too much for me to explain here, but in a nutshell you have to:

set custom speeds for 25% & save it
set custom speeds for 50% & save it
set custom speeds for 75% & save it
set custom speeds for 100% & save it

You then need to create a launcher for each of these 4 fan speeds.

You then need to create a threshhold for each setting where you want the fan to change based on a temperature (I made 7 threshholds)

Too much for me to explain, but there are guides on the net, here is one you might use. The only difference between my setup and that guides is that it uses the same temperature threshholds to increase and decrease fan speeds, while I use different settings to avoid the fan changing speed as the temperature bounces around a threshhold.

Some more info on my setup - Windows XP x64, I've uninstalled CCC (I found it to be a POS) and I use a hacked BIOS for overclocking, and I use rivatuner 2.06 for controlling my fan speeds

so it sounds like it can be done.. just not that obvious.. i would still like that gecube bios thow... he he

but thanks for the info.. :)

trog
 
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whoosh.. not gonna let it disappear that easy..

i dont really want to risk my "sub-systems" not matching.. he he.. ??

trog
 

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Has anyone been able to successfully flash this bios to something other than a GeCube card?
 
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Has anyone been able to successfully flash this bios to something other than a GeCube card?

now that is the question.. ;)

trog
 

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I flashed my BIOS to one of the ones IAX-Tech posted. It has overclocked GPU/memory speeds built into the BIOS.

When I flashed it I was forced to use the -f flag because of an ID mismatch. Not sure if it is the same thing or not?
 

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When I flashed it I was forced to use the -f flag because of an ID mismatch. Not sure if it is the same thing or not?
Try to flash the GeCube bios and let us know. ;)
 

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My card is a Gecube card to begin with though :p Just the standard Gecube card though, not the OC version
 
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