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Tried unlocking my BFG GeForce 7900 GS OC 256 MB but no success. If anything, after enabling bits 5 and 15 I had a very slight performance hit when running several 3dmark2001SE and 3dmark06 benchmarks. Some systems specs ...
C2D E6400 @ 2.13 Ghz
Gigabyte 965P-S3
2x1 GB Corsair Ram 5-5-5-15
250 GB HD
BFG GeForce 7900 GS OC 256 MB - Out of box speed is 540/660
Some Benchmark results ...
3dmark2001SE - default settings
With Bits 5 & 15 Enabled...
28083 - Run 1
27974 - Run 2
27846 - Run 3
28076 - Run 4
With Bits 5 & 15 Disabled (Stock) ...
28493 - Only Ran Once
3dMark2006 - All tests enabled with default settings
With Bits 5 & 15 Enabled ...
Overall Score 1 : 4788
SM2:1949, HDR:1913, CPU:1832
Overall Score 2 : 4701
SM2:1908, HDR:1874, CPU:1822
Overall Score 3 : 4789
SM2:1950, HDR:1910, CPU:1838
With Bits 5 & 15 Disabled (Stock) ...
Overall Score : 4788
SM2:1948, HDR:1901, CPU:1833
Just thought I would post my results with trying to unlock some extra pipes, basically, nothing happened. RivaTuner would only report 20pp, 7vp ; even with all pipes enabled. Anyway, hope someone finds another hidden GT gem with their GS.
Here is an image of my GPU Chip. No GT here :-(
C2D E6400 @ 2.13 Ghz
Gigabyte 965P-S3
2x1 GB Corsair Ram 5-5-5-15
250 GB HD
BFG GeForce 7900 GS OC 256 MB - Out of box speed is 540/660
Some Benchmark results ...
3dmark2001SE - default settings
With Bits 5 & 15 Enabled...
28083 - Run 1
27974 - Run 2
27846 - Run 3
28076 - Run 4
With Bits 5 & 15 Disabled (Stock) ...
28493 - Only Ran Once
3dMark2006 - All tests enabled with default settings
With Bits 5 & 15 Enabled ...
Overall Score 1 : 4788
SM2:1949, HDR:1913, CPU:1832
Overall Score 2 : 4701
SM2:1908, HDR:1874, CPU:1822
Overall Score 3 : 4789
SM2:1950, HDR:1910, CPU:1838
With Bits 5 & 15 Disabled (Stock) ...
Overall Score : 4788
SM2:1948, HDR:1901, CPU:1833
Just thought I would post my results with trying to unlock some extra pipes, basically, nothing happened. RivaTuner would only report 20pp, 7vp ; even with all pipes enabled. Anyway, hope someone finds another hidden GT gem with their GS.
Here is an image of my GPU Chip. No GT here :-(
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I've got one of those gems. It is a GT chip, and I gain about 500 pts in 3dmark 06 when I enable the pipes.
Gwargor, while a good detective treats everything as false until otherwise proven, this isn't a crime scene. Lighten up. Why would this be something people would want to lie about anyway?
That said, I'm still a little stubborn and hoping that it's not laser cut, although I'm more than sure it is.
But I was looking at various different g71 pictures online. First, it looks like 7900gs has device id 0292. There's a gt/gto that's 0291 and then a gt that's 3034. I haven't done research into this, but this could explain why we're seeing different writing on different cores, with some that are just g71-n and some that are g71-gt-n.
First pic is gs, last is gt, and middle I believe was gx2.
But if you look in the upper left of each chip, at the top of the second column, the gs seems to be missing a smd capacitor. The other two both have it. Otherwise, they appear to be the same. I wonder if this could somehow mean anything.
That said, I'm still a little stubborn and hoping that it's not laser cut, although I'm more than sure it is.
But I was looking at various different g71 pictures online. First, it looks like 7900gs has device id 0292. There's a gt/gto that's 0291 and then a gt that's 3034. I haven't done research into this, but this could explain why we're seeing different writing on different cores, with some that are just g71-n and some that are g71-gt-n.
First pic is gs, last is gt, and middle I believe was gx2.
But if you look in the upper left of each chip, at the top of the second column, the gs seems to be missing a smd capacitor. The other two both have it. Otherwise, they appear to be the same. I wonder if this could somehow mean anything.
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Hello new here.
Everything is fine for me (7900 gs FOxconn), it even says 24 pp 8vp after I check the disabled pipelines. However, that "disabled" never turns into "enabled" (for the 2 bit fields)
What do I exactly do to that?
Everything is fine for me (7900 gs FOxconn), it even says 24 pp 8vp after I check the disabled pipelines. However, that "disabled" never turns into "enabled" (for the 2 bit fields)
What do I exactly do to that?
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Ok. I have one of the BFG cards that has the GT chip. I verified this about 2 months ago when I replaced the cooler. I wish I had taken pics. Anyways, unless you have a GT chip, there is NO WAY to unlock the pipes. I heard from an "inside source" that BFG used the GT chip and did a softmod on some of their 7900gs's to keep up with demand for the 7900gs. I'm not sure if any other brands chose to do this, but so far it seems it was only BFG. To cut out all of the speculation, all you have to do is take off the cooler and check the chip. I would recommend you do this before getting frustrated with rivatuner. Oh, and if you do have a BFG with the GT chip it will report as 24/8 and 5/15 enabled.
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Oh, I forgot to mention one thing. Curiously, even when you enable the pipelines, and experience the performance gains, the gpu bios still reports the card as a 7900gs. I to decided to flash the card with the 7900gt bios. It didn't work. After the flash, I would get intermittent blank screens. So, I just modified the original bios to 7900gt OC specs, which worked perfectly.
so do you guys still have your 7900GS's? I sold the computer that my BFG was in, and built this c2d rig with a 7600GT that i got for a good deal, but it leaves much to be desired. I found an add at ncix that has XFX 7900GS XT's for $86.99 after rebate. Has anyone had luck unlocking XFX's? the part number is (PV-T71P-UDE3)
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BFG made the ONLY cards that unlocked, they used gt chips in a number of cards because of the demand for gs's, then they did a software mod. to make it a gs. GS chips themselves cannot be unlocked.
MandoMan PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS
I have been reading everything I can to try and unlock my 7900GS, the date today is Oct 14, 2008, and your post i'm responding to is way over a year old. Anyways, I noticed in your snapshots of rivatuner that the titel says Bios is V771 and the Bios Version is 5.71.22.45.01. I know my card is V740 and Bios version ends in 42.01 instead of 45.01 like yours. I AM BEGGING YOU, CAN YOU PLEASE USE NIBITOR TO SAVE YOUR BIOS TO FILE AND UPLOAD IT HERE, AND ALSO EMAIL IT TO ME AT : i t s o l u t i o n s _ 1 @ h O tM a I l . c O M (the email address doesn't have any of the spaces between the letters or anything capitalized, i only did that so it wouldn't show up in a search) Please, I want to believe that maybe your bios is the key to unlocking a 7900GS
I have been reading everything I can to try and unlock my 7900GS, the date today is Oct 14, 2008, and your post i'm responding to is way over a year old. Anyways, I noticed in your snapshots of rivatuner that the titel says Bios is V771 and the Bios Version is 5.71.22.45.01. I know my card is V740 and Bios version ends in 42.01 instead of 45.01 like yours. I AM BEGGING YOU, CAN YOU PLEASE USE NIBITOR TO SAVE YOUR BIOS TO FILE AND UPLOAD IT HERE, AND ALSO EMAIL IT TO ME AT : i t s o l u t i o n s _ 1 @ h O tM a I l . c O M (the email address doesn't have any of the spaces between the letters or anything capitalized, i only did that so it wouldn't show up in a search) Please, I want to believe that maybe your bios is the key to unlocking a 7900GS
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ive tried it with 2 xfx 7900gs's ive got here none of them to unlock Nvidia soon put a stop to the softmod to the cards after the Geforce 6800lE NU agp users could possibilly unlock there cards to GT's and then clock them to ultra some could do 16x5 some would do the 16x6 but you dont have the ddr3 memory which came equipped so a redundant one of that as i had back in the day
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I am not trying to argue with you or say I know more than you however, you clearly have not read through the forums, specifically this one. I read through everysingle post from page 1 to Page 4 and MandoMan was smart and nice enough to answer Nele's request to display his rivatuner info which shows that he has a different bios. I can not find this bios online anywhere but I have noticed that other people that have unlocked their cards and were smart enough to post their info also had the Bios V771 and version that ends in 45.01. So needless to say, this is a complicated issue. I will agree that some can and some can't flash theirs to a gt. Everyone now knows that you have to have a g71 gt core, but no one can agree what the reason is why some can't. So I am not going to accept the notion that it is the luck of the draw. I am not going to accept the answer "it's because nvidia put a stop to it" or "they laser cut the pipelines". I am going to pursue this until either 1) I get a hold of the bios I am looking for and it doesn't unlock the pipelines, and 2) I find a program (other than nibitor) that can edit the bios, so I can unlock the pipelines from there.
Please read through the forum next time. You will see you are just one more person saying it can't be done, while there is proof that it can. I am just trying to find out the truth, it's a matter of principal now, considering it wouldn't make much of a difference with games like crysis, crysis warhead, UT3 (all of which I've beat) and so on.
I am not trying to argue with you or say I know more than you however, you clearly have not read through the forums, specifically this one. I read through everysingle post from page 1 to Page 4 and MandoMan was smart and nice enough to answer Nele's request to display his rivatuner info which shows that he has a different bios. I can not find this bios online anywhere but I have noticed that other people that have unlocked their cards and were smart enough to post their info also had the Bios V771 and version that ends in 45.01. So needless to say, this is a complicated issue. I will agree that some can and some can't flash theirs to a gt. Everyone now knows that you have to have a g71 gt core, but no one can agree what the reason is why some can't. So I am not going to accept the notion that it is the luck of the draw. I am not going to accept the answer "it's because nvidia put a stop to it" or "they laser cut the pipelines". I am going to pursue this until either 1) I get a hold of the bios I am looking for and it doesn't unlock the pipelines, and 2) I find a program (other than nibitor) that can edit the bios, so I can unlock the pipelines from there.
Please read through the forum next time. You will see you are just one more person saying it can't be done, while there is proof that it can. I am just trying to find out the truth, it's a matter of principal now, considering it wouldn't make much of a difference with games like crysis, crysis warhead, UT3 (all of which I've beat) and so on.
BFG 7900GS OC Bios rom
I guess I should ask this so when anyone is using google it might pop up. Can anyone who has a BFG 7900 GS OC, please upload your bios rom. I'm sure just about everyone here who has posted would be interested in seeing if you can unlock based on the bios you have. If you don't know how to upload or even extract your bios, here are some simple, easy to follow instructions.
This is quoted from Nele with some minor adjustments:
please also attach your bios here!
it's very easy to do that:
download "nibitor" version 4.6 here:
http://www.mvktech.net/component/op...id,2801/chk,67a65d924f378e1f3a6c089fe4b6a63c/
start it, go to tools -> read bios -> select device.
thereafter go to tools -> read bios -> read into file.
thanks a lot!
After you follow those instrcutions upload it here. Thank you to everyone who will hopefully participate.
I guess I should ask this so when anyone is using google it might pop up. Can anyone who has a BFG 7900 GS OC, please upload your bios rom. I'm sure just about everyone here who has posted would be interested in seeing if you can unlock based on the bios you have. If you don't know how to upload or even extract your bios, here are some simple, easy to follow instructions.
This is quoted from Nele with some minor adjustments:
please also attach your bios here!
it's very easy to do that:
download "nibitor" version 4.6 here:
http://www.mvktech.net/component/op...id,2801/chk,67a65d924f378e1f3a6c089fe4b6a63c/
start it, go to tools -> read bios -> select device.
thereafter go to tools -> read bios -> read into file.
thanks a lot!
After you follow those instrcutions upload it here. Thank you to everyone who will hopefully participate.