Flashing an Asus 980 Ti reference card with an EVGA 980 Ti reference card Bios

[SirStiggie]

This is a bit of a weird one.......

I have two reference 980 Ti's from EVGA and Asus respectively. The EVGA is the SC version (-4992-KR):

Asus
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121958

EVGA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487139

I got the Asus as a gift and decided to stick them both in my system.

They seem to work pretty well but I do notice the difference in clock speeds due to the SC having a factory overclock.

Is it possible to flash the Asus card with the EVGA's bios so have them both on the same page?

In my mind, since they are both "reference" cards, it should work but having never attempted anything like this with a GPU before, I wanted to get some input from the experts here.

Any help would be appreciated..

 

[INSTG8R]

Not a good idea. Better just overclocking the other card.

 

[qubit]

There's variations even with reference cards, especially from different manufacturers so you could quite likely brick it. Just overclock it.

 

[terroralpha]

the overclock on the EVGA SC models is very modest. only 102MHz. i've never seen a 980 Ti that OCs less than 200MHz on the core. i personally have 3 GTX 980 Ti. the slowest of the 3 gets 265MHz over reference speeds. fastest gets 310MHz.

for a 100MHz boost you probably won't even have to lift the power target. it probably won't even make a noticeable difference if you didn't OC at all.

 

[SirStiggie]

Good morning all,

Thank you for your responses. I will follow your advice and leave the card as is. I have put a mild OC on it to bring it to same level as the EVGA and so far everything looks good.

Thanks again.