Help with the voltage of 7970ghz 3GD BIOS

[Sunkruser]

Hi everyone, i have a GIGABYTE 7970 ghz 3gd with R797TO3D.F62.bios.

I would like to know if anyone coud please modify the stock voltage from 1256mv to 1300mv. Thats because I would like to overclock my graphic card to another limit, and i cant do this with this locked voltage.

I dont know if there are more interesting things to modify such as powertune limit or these type of things, I tried on my own change the values of my bios but i coudnt, so i would be very pleased if anyone do it for me.

Here you cand find the bios (F62):

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4290#bios


thanks in advance

 

[sentye]

Hi, I changed voltage in your BIOS from 1.256V to 1.300V - you can check it with VBE7.
After you flash it, please check with GPU-Z or MSI Afterburner if new voltage is reported correctly.

And remember to have a backup of your original BIOS.

 

[Sunkruser]

Hello sentye, thank you very much for this bios, could I ask you which software did you use? I should learn how to do this

And again, thank you

 

[Vario]

I never had any luck raising voltage with that card myself. Tried making a custom bios too. Its locked at the hardware level.

edit: sorry, was non ghz version but a 7970 windforce, almost same thing.

 

[erocker]

Have you tried Sapphire Trixx? Works great.

 

[Sunkruser]

I never had any luck raising voltage with that card myself. Tried making a custom bios too. Its locked at the hardware level.

edit: sorry, was non ghz version but a 7970 windforce, almost same thing.

7970, 280, 280x, 7970ghz... There are too many graphic cards which got locked voltage, it is neccesary a specific software that i dont know how to use =(

Have you tried Sapphire Trixx? Works great.

This type of programs are useless because dont allow VDDC adjust, but I use it to modify my clocks and try different oc profiles.

 

[erocker]

Uh, It does allow VDDC adjustment. I can go up to 1.3v with this version.

Perhaps you card is incapable of voltage adjustment through anything other than a hard mod?

 

[Sunkruser]

Yes, I know you can adjust the voltage with trixx, msi afterburner, gpu tweak etc.. but not in my card.

If I want to modify or increase my voltage, I need a modded bios

 

[cadaveca]

Yes, I know you can adjust the voltage with trixx, msi afterburner, gpu tweak etc.. but not in my card.

If I want to modify or increase my voltage, I need a modded bios

modded BIOS doesn't always work. I found that modded BIOS may change vid displayed, but measurements with meter says no voltage change. Only the early Gigabyte cards had a VRM controller that offered volt adjustment support, new ones do not.

 

[Sunkruser]

modded BIOS doesn't always work. I found that modded BIOS may change vid displayed, but measurements with meter says no voltage change. Only the early Gigabyte cards had a VRM controller that offered volt adjustment support, new ones do not.

I didnt know that problem, Should I use an oscilloscope to verify the voltage of the card then? or how can I check the real voltage of my card

 

[Vario]

Gigabyte locked all but the earliest of 7970 Windforce models

 

[Sunkruser]

Well, I tested the new BIOS and i have lower performance

I dont understand why but I tried heaven benchmark and this is the result:

Default bios, 1256mv:

New bios, 1300mv (and 1256mv as well, I modified with trixx to check if there was a voltage problem but I had similar result in heaven benchmark):

I dont understand this new result, coud @sentye check if the bios you change is this bios?

I were sure I put the correct link for my bios but now im not.

Furthermore, I reinstall drivers and I also put the default bios and I had again higher score with older bios so I believe it must be a bios problem.

 

[sentye]

Well that's weird, I didn't changed anything other than the voltage itself and yes I've used that BIOS from link you provided in first post.
Have you perhaps checked with GPU-Z or MSI Afterburner what clocks and voltage is reported while running that benchmark?
In the meantime I will check your BIOS again.

 

[OneMoar]

your card is locked voltage control is not possible no bios will change this get another card

 

[Sunkruser]

Well that's weird, I didn't changed anything other than the voltage itself and yes I've used that BIOS from link you provided in first post.
Have you perhaps checked with GPU-Z or MSI Afterburner what clocks and voltage is reported while running that benchmark?
In the meantime I will check your BIOS again.

Yes, I checked gpu-z after benchmark and it shows 1.3v, maybe the bios of the first link was modified so I upload my bios from my computer, please change this bios and I will not disturb you again, sorry for that.

 

[OneMoar]

Yes, I checked gpu-z after benchmark and it shows 1.3v, maybe the bios of the first link was modified so I upload my bios from my computer, please change this bios and I will not disturb you again, sorry for that.

you aren't reading your card PHYSICALLY lacks programmable voltage control a bios is not going to fix this
gigabyte changed voltage regulators mid production from programmable to static

 

[sentye]

Yes, I checked gpu-z after benchmark and it shows 1.3v, maybe the bios of the first link was modified so I upload my bios from my computer, please change this bios and I will not disturb you again, sorry for that.

You aren't disturbing me at all, if I can help you then I'll be happy to do so, but as OneMoar said simply editing your voltage won't help here, as your GPU have locked voltage control at hardware level.
There are many threads on the web about this, and yeah I should've made some research before... but it's nice to learn something new every day

 

[Sunkruser]

You aren't disturbing me at all, if I can help you then I'll be happy to do so, but as OneMoar said simply editing your voltage won't help here, as your GPU have locked voltage control at hardware level.
There are many threads on the web about this, and yeah I should've made some research before... but it's nice to learn something new every day

Well, I have to say that actually my graphic card is a gigabyte 280x with 7970ghz bios. The original bios came with 1.2v 1100/1500 and it had artifacts everywhere, I read in forums to solve the artifacts and flickering problem and discover the compatibilty between 7970-280x bios.

Now I have 1256mv 1140/1600 and without problems (7970 bios) so this increase of voltage helped me to solve the problems I had. Now i want to overclock a little more my graphic card but i cant due to voltage, so i think 1.3v will help me and to be sure I uploaded the bios from my computer to discard other problems. So let me try 1.3v as last chance please.

ps:excuse me for my english, its not my native language

 

[OneMoar]

neither card have voltage control ..
we are done here

 

[Sunkruser]

neither card have voltage control ..
we are done here

Ok, but I want to believe