Changing bios - RX 7600 Challenger ASRock

[boss]

I have an Asrock RX 7600 Challenger, I recently bought it, I never changed the bios, it is new, I didn't buy the product used, but I would like to change the bios to get more performance out of it, however the message I receive when performing the procedure using the most current amdflash is that it was not possible to find my graphics card, how can I solve this and finally be able to change the bios?

Thank you in advance for all the feedback.

 

[Imperator]

Hello.
Please elaborate about the procedure you followed in order to flash the card,
I mean what version you used and exact commands you used for that.

 

[Macro Device]

There is not a single BIOS file that improves performance of lower-end RDNA3 GPUs.

Just overclock it using Adrenalin or Afterburner and call it a day.

 

[boss]

Hello.
Please elaborate about the procedure you followed in order to flash the card,
I mean what version you used and exact commands you used for that.

Hello.
Please elaborate about the procedure you followed in order to flash the card,
I mean what version you used and exact commands you used for that.

well, I tried using AMDVBFLASH 3.31, installed the drive (AMDVBFlashDriverInstaller) and then I clicked on "amdvbflashWin" and the message that appears is "cannot find discrete ati video card" I also tried using cmd commands as in the guide here on the forum , but the message I receive is 'adapter not found'


By the way, this is the bios I want.

ASRock RX 7600 VBIOS

8 GB GDDR6, 2356 MHz GPU, 2250 MHz Memory

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Zach_01]

I have an Asrock RX 7600 Challenger, I recently bought it, I never changed the bios, it is new, I didn't buy the product used, but I would like to change the bios to get more performance out of it, however the message I receive when performing the procedure using the most current amdflash is that it was not possible to find my graphics card, how can I solve this and finally be able to change the bios?

Thank you in advance for all the feedback.

Why do you want to risk your new GPU for like what?
For permanent +50MHz and get like 1% more FPS?
You can do a lot better/more within adrenalin drivers.

You can try and experiment from drivers to:
1. Oveclock GPU base clock
2. Oveclock GPU boost clock
3. Overclock GPU memory
4. Undervolt GPU
5. Expand the entire card power limit
6. Set custom fan curve, with or without "stop fan"
...which can lead to more performance.

Flashing BIOS can lead to a bricked card. Complicated situation that you may recover from or not.

This is from drivers

 

[Solaris17]

but I would like to change the bios to get more performance out of it, however the message I receive when performing the procedure using the most current amdflash

I foresee this not going well.

Make sure you have a backup, look into guides on how to RESCUE from a bad flash so you are prepared when it happens.

 

[GerKNG]

so you want to flash a bios that probably bricks the card for lets say 50Mhz?
just open the OC section in the radeon software and give the card the 50Mhz...

 

[Imperator]

Why do you want to risk your new GPU for like what?
For permanent +50MHz and get like 1% more FPS?
You can do a lot better/more within adrenalin drivers.

You can try and experiment from drivers to:
1. Oveclock GPU base clock
2. Oveclock GPU boost clock
3. Overclock GPU memory
4. Undervolt GPU
5. Expand the entire card power limit
6. Set custom fan curve, with or without "stop fan"
...which can lead to more performance.

Flashing BIOS can lead to a bricked card. Complicated situation that you may recover from or not.

This is from drivers

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I couldn't agree more.
In my experience you mod something when you expect to receive much more as a result.
In our case this card won't give you much extra by squeezing it
So i wouldn't advice you to do that.
But that is my oppinion.

 

[boss]

Why do you want to risk your new GPU for like what?
For permanent +50MHz and get like 1% more FPS?
You can do a lot better/more within adrenalin drivers.

You can try and experiment from drivers to:
1. Oveclock GPU base clock
2. Oveclock GPU boost clock
3. Overclock GPU memory
4. Undervolt GPU
5. Expand the entire card power limit
6. Set custom fan curve, with or without "stop fan"
...which can lead to more performance.

Flashing BIOS can lead to a bricked card. Complicated situation that you may recover from or not.

This is from drivers

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you are absolutely right! I'm a bit of a noob in this niche, and I thought this would give me more performance. Do you have a video showing how to do the experiments you mentioned (overclocking)? I'm afraid of going in blind and causing a problem.

Thank you for preventing a tragedy on my hardware.

 

[Zach_01]

you are absolutely right! I'm a bit of a noob in this niche, and I thought this would give me more performance. Do you have a video showing how to do the experiments you mentioned (overclocking)? I'm afraid of going in blind and causing a problem.

Thank you for preventing a tragedy on my hardware.

Since you are new to this I suggest you go through the video (guide) below without skipping any word.
Sometimes its not only about getting the job done but also learn and enjoy the experience first.

 

[KedsDead]

Just remember that your not going to see huge gains in performance. For an example, your going to get a small performance boost in same games, but your not going to get 7700xt performance simply because you over clocked the card.

Just trying to set friendly expectation.

Why do you want to risk your new GPU for like what?
For permanent +50MHz and get like 1% more FPS?
You can do a lot better/more within adrenalin drivers.

You can try and experiment from drivers to:
1. Oveclock GPU base clock
2. Oveclock GPU boost clock
3. Overclock GPU memory
4. Undervolt GPU
5. Expand the entire card power limit
6. Set custom fan curve, with or without "stop fan"
...which can lead to more performance.

Flashing BIOS can lead to a bricked card. Complicated situation that you may recover from or not.

This is from drivers

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Hey Zach, why do you have resizable bar disabled?

 

[boss]

Since you are new to this I suggest you go through the video (guide) below without skipping any word.
Sometimes its not only about getting the job done but also learn and enjoy the experience first.

Thanks for the link Zack! All done here. Greetings from Brazil.

 

[Zach_01]

Just remember that your not going to see huge gains in performance. For an example, your going to get a small performance boost in same games, but your not going to get 7700xt performance simply because you over clocked the card.

Just trying to set friendly expectation.

Hey Zach, why do you have resizable bar disabled?

Yeah, the gains can vary a lot depending the rest of the system and also the game.
Could be 1-2% or 5-6%.
Or you can set it to maintain performance or enhance it by a margin (1-2%) and get a nice reduction (-10~15%) to power draw that will get the card cooler and quiet-er.

As for resizable bar, I have it disabled because it has mixed results and I do not really need it at this point.
To be honest I didnt even test it with the games I play currently. I got the card less than a month ago.
It does take 2 restarts (1 entering BIOS) every time you want to enable it and I'm too lazy for it.

 

[KedsDead]

Yeah, the gains can vary a lot depending the rest of the system and also the game.
Could be 1-2% or 5-6%.
Or you can set it to maintain performance or enhance it by a margin (1-2%) and get a nice reduction (-10~15%) to power draw that will get the card cooler and quiet-er.

As for resizable bar, I have it disabled because it has mixed results and I do not really need it at this point.
To be honest I didnt even test it with the games I play currently. I got the card less than a month ago.
It does take 2 restarts (1 entering BIOS) every time you want to enable it and I'm too lazy for it.

You dont have to go to the bois to disable it. You can do it from Adrenalin.

 

[Zach_01]

Thanks for the link Zack! All done here. Greetings from Brazil.

Just a suggestion about the fan

Your current settings on the fan curve is a bit aggressive. The card does not need 1600rpm for idling at 5W
It could be disabled when you're not playing games. Its a dust scoop like that now. You can (I prefer always) enable zero fan and lower your settings also.
Test it in games and adjust so the hotspot temp stays below 80C (max operating for hotspot is 110C with 115~120C the critical point)

How to see it what are your ingame temps?
There is software for this to display almost any system info on your screen while playing. I like my screen clean so I use monitoring software to see after I exit the game.
And also I have a (old) keyboard that has a small lcd attached to it and I can display a few sensors on it.

I can choose from a wide variety of sensors to dispaly on the bottom 3 slots and scroll between them.

But this is the mother of all monitoring software

You dont have to go to the bois to disable it. You can do it from Adrenalin.

Da... you are right, only the first time needs 2 times a restart... I must get some sleep...

EDIT:
typo

 

[KedsDead]

He can monitor the hot spot with Adrenalin aswell.. ctrl+shift+o will pull up the built in on screen display. You set those in Metric and which ones to display.

 

[Zach_01]

He can monitor the hot spot with Adrenalin aswell.. ctrl+shift+o will pull up the built in on screen display. You set those in Metric and which ones to display.

Yes that too. I keep it disabled tho as I had some glitches with it some time ago

 

[boss]

Just a suggestion about the fan

Your current settings on the fan curve is a bit aggressive. The card does not need 1600rpm for idling at 5W
It could be disabled when you're not playing games. Its a dust scoop like that now. You can (I prefer always) enable zero fan and lower your settings also.
Test it in games and adjust so the hotspot temp stays below 80C (max opereting for hotspot is 110C with 115~120C the critical point)

How to see it what are your ingame temps?
There is software for this to display almost any system info on your screen while playing. I like my screen clean so I use monitoring software to see after I exit the game.
And also I have a (old) keyboard that has a small lcd attached to it and I can display a few sensors on it.

I can choose from a wide variety of sensors to dispaly on the bottom 3 slots and scroll between them.
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But this is the mother of all monitoring software

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Da... you are right, only the first time needs 2 times a restart... I must get some sleep...

Thanks for the support, brother!

Thank you everyone for the feedback, I would probably be in trouble now if I had flashed the bios, I made the overclocking settings and got better performance.

 

[Zach_01]

Cheers!

 

[Lew Zealand]

Yes that too. I keep it disabled tho as I had some glitches with it some time ago

Yes to this. My lower performance Radeon GPUs (5600 XT, 6600 XT) sometimes have increased microstutter with the Adrenalin Metrics overlay active, though limiting it to only 2-3 displayed metrics minimizes this.

 

[boss]

Cheers!

I have a b450, and a ryzen 7 5700x, am I losing performance because of this motherboard? I mean, my gpu is still 'running' on pcie 3.0. Maybe I'd better swap for a b550.

 

[Zach_01]

I have a b450, and a ryzen 7 5700x, am I losing performance because of this motherboard? I mean, my gpu is still 'running' on pcie 3.0. Maybe I'd better swap for a b550.

Personally I think you're fine
5700X and RX7600 are a nice pair
You won't gain much from another "faster" CPU. Only money spend...

 

[boss]

Personally I think you're fine
5700X and RX7600 are a nice pair
You won't gain much from another "faster" CPU. Only money spend...

Got it!

 

[KedsDead]

I have a b450, and a ryzen 7 5700x, am I losing performance because of this motherboard? I mean, my gpu is still 'running' on pcie 3.0. Maybe I'd better swap for a b550.

Personally I think you're fine
5700X and RX7600 are a nice pair
You won't gain much from another "faster" CPU. Only money spend...

Yes you are fine. You still have a 3.0 x16 lane for the graphics card. I have a 6900xt on a x470 and mine performs fine. There are YT vids out there were they tested a 4090 on 3.0 slots and the performance was the same.