[BIOS] Anybody tried Palit 3060 Storm X on Asus Phoenix yet?

[RRO]

Cards seem the same to me with Asus having the better cooler.

Flashing seems interesting 'cause the Palit has the silent mode option for the fans ("0-db tech") while Asus denies this on purpose.

Anybody tried it yet?

 

[eidairaman1]

Cards seem the same to me with Asus having the better cooler.

Flashing seems interesting 'cause the Palit has the silent mode option for the fans ("0-db tech") while Asus denies this on purpose.

Anybody tried it yet?

Don't bother on the RTX 3000 series, I see too many come here with bricked cards. There is no secret sauce to these cards like there is with RTX 2000 and older. So just use it as is or buy another card and sell your existing one.

 

[AusWolf]

A friend of mine has the Phoenix 3060. I don't know any details, but he's happy with it.

Edit: Sorry, I didn't see at first that your post was about BIOS.

 

[RRO]

@eidairaman1 thx for following up :thumb
How come? Are they encrypted or hardware dongled?

My last flash was years ago on Radeon RX480 so excuse my dumb asking.

I'm very annoyed how Asus' handling this. Nearly 700EUR for a card and the fan stopping in idle is a "luxury" which is only available on cards even more expensive... that's absurd.

 

[eidairaman1]

@eidairaman1 thx for following up :thumb
How come? Are they encrypted or hardware dongled?

My last flash was years ago on Radeon RX480 so excuse my dumb asking.

I'm very annoyed how Asus' handling this. Nearly 700EUR for a card and the fan stopping in idle is a "luxury" which is only available on cards even more expensive... that's absurd.

Nvidia is tightening the screws on flashing to combat miners, so flashing RTX 3000 equals bricking.

GTX 1000 series and RTX 2000 series you could cross flash but not mod the bios like GTX 900 series and older. So as stated above use as is or buy another and sell your existing card.

Even cards such as RX Vega, RDNA1 could be crossflashed only, I am unsure about RDNA 2 cards.

 

[RRO]

@the54thvoid and everybody else sorry for the double post. I thought it to be two subjects.

@AusWolf Thx for your answer on the other post. Out of curiosity I have blocked the fan and after 30min of movie in fullscreen it's reaching only 45 degrees which seems ok to me. And I assume it's capable of getting down to 30 when running sth like 300 rpm.

Because BIOS-hacking and cross-flashing seems to be blocked (thx for the explanation @eidairaman1 ) I'll go the hardware path using a VGA-to-PWM-adapter or directly soldering a PWM.cable to the fan, and managing it via mainboard-utilities.

 

[AusWolf]

@the54thvoid and everybody else sorry for the double post. I thought it to be two subjects.

@AusWolf Thx for your answer on the other post. Out of curiosity I have blocked the fan and after 30min of movie in fullscreen it's reaching only 45 degrees which seems ok to me. And I assume it's capable of getting down to 30 when running sth like 300 rpm.

Because BIOS-hacking and cross-flashing seems to be blocked (thx for the explanation @eidairaman1 ) I'll go the hardware path using a VGA-to-PWM-adapter or directly soldering a PWM.cable to the fan, and managing it via mainboard-utilities.

I'm glad that it's relatively cool at 0 rpm. But next time, don't block the fan. You can damage its motor that way.

How are you planning to control it via motherboard utilities? Motherboard BIOSes can only control fans by motherboard or CPU temps.

 

[RRO]

I'm using the fancontrol-software www.argusmonitor.de. It is capable of reading across all sensors in the system incl. disks, gpu, cpu, mainboard, ... you name it.

Fans than can be managed by all combinations of tempsources with individual curves for each source, allowing such things as using the sidepanel fan only additionally when the nvme-drive is running hot OR the GPU is heating up.

An alternative tool I found while researching the Asus Phoenix prob just recently is Fancontrol . This is open-source on Github and it seems to have a similar featureset. Havn't tried it out though 'cause I already own Argus for some years and it does a great job.

 

[mstenholm]

I'm glad that it's relatively cool at 0 rpm. But next time, don't block the fan. You can damage its motor that way.

How are you planning to control it via motherboard utilities? Motherboard BIOSes can only control fans by motherboard or CPU temps.

When you start up big fans without a frequency converter, you close the dampers in order to reduce the flow and hence the start-up current. No harm done in that. Sure you don’t use a pen to completely stop the impeller because that could burn the motor, but using a sheet of paper is fine for our case fans. The motor is turning but with a light load.