matthew1g Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 I've seen various vids on youtube of people updating their 8800GT's bios. Apperantly, it increases GPU voltage by a bit and makes the card stable over 700MHZ GPU. Now I have a twintech card, everything is at stock, and the thing won't go over 700Mhz which I have it at now this is the clip I'm talking about: . So would that work on all brands? I know for a reason that twintech's site is utterly crap and I can't find anything about firmware or such. HOWEVER asus has quite a few BIOS upgrades. Would anyone know where to get my hands on that version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocketkiller Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 How about posting some pictures and specs of your card? If it has the same PCB design, RAM chips and amount of RAM it would work. But honestly, if you don't already know alot about your card I wouldn't recommend it. Your card could be made with cheaper components which might burn out with the higher volts, you'll also need to put on some extra heatsinks and probably switch the cooler because the stock one is just barely enough at stock volts and clocks. Also, more volts lowers the life of the card. You don't know how the core will respond to more volts in the long run, my X1950 PRO was one of the first voltmodded PROs, and I didn't know how the core will respond to it in the long run, after a bit over a month it refused to even POST with the voltmod, I took it off and now the core is screwed up and can barely overclock. So the 8800GT might go dead after a bit, nobody knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew1g Posted December 22, 2007 Author Share Posted December 22, 2007 It's the basic 8800GT, nothing special, all 88gt's have the same PCBs AFAIK, 600 core, 900 memory (1900 effective) 1500 shader, 512 meg. stock nvidia fan card is the one below: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesfleanut Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 You'll gain virtually no real performance at the expense of possibly killing your card, I honestly don't know why people overclock anymore. Back when you could take a 1.2GHz amd chip to 2.2 GHz it was cool, but these days it's just dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocketkiller Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 It's always nice to get free performance, and overclocking won't damage your card at all with proper cooling, it's voltmodding that kills, which is why I wouldn't recommend it for 24/7 use. I could take my X2 4400 from 2.2 to 2.6 GHz easy, no real damage to the chip because I have proper cooling and I don't plan on using it for more than 2 years anyway, with a decent performance boost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew1g Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 true, I have some proper cooling in my case as well. The card idles at 39 degrees and goes up to 50 while gaming, with the exception of Crysis which makes the card heat up to 60 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.K. Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 You'll gain virtually no real performance at the expense of possibly killing your card, I honestly don't know why people overclock anymore. Back when you could take a 1.2GHz amd chip to 2.2 GHz it was cool, but these days it's just dumb. How is it dumb? I can see overclocking a video card as being a little stupid... But a processor? Free performance, at little risk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brutuz Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 You'll gain virtually no real performance at the expense of possibly killing your card, I honestly don't know why people overclock anymore. Back when you could take a 1.2GHz amd chip to 2.2 GHz it was cool, but these days it's just dumb. What about people getting a 2.6Ghz Quad core to 4Ghz on water? That's more than a 1.2Ghz to 2.2Ghz overclock... Even my 550Mhz overclock was noticeable with this Core 2 Duo.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_root Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 i have an 8800 GT too but i can honestly say that i'm not going to bother overclocking it. oc'ing the cpu may be pozitive but oc'ing the gpu doesn't even increase the fps 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew1g Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 says you I want every ounce of performance I can get out of this PC. Overclocking Is somewhat a hobby of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_root Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 says you I want every ounce of performance I can get out of this PC. Overclocking Is somewhat a hobby of mine. well it was a hobby of mine with my previous card,7600 GT. i remember the day i clocked it at 660mhz on [email protected] the only oc that i'll do for my 8800 GT is going to be increasing the memory bandwith(i guess it was the name) it must be something like 57.6 and imo getting this to 65 may increase the performance in crysis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew1g Posted December 23, 2007 Author Share Posted December 23, 2007 my current OC'ed specs of the card: able to maintain 25-35 FPS on crysis 1024x768, no AA/AF everything set to ultra high those are the highest clocks I can get the card to stay stable on at stock voltage, that's why I want the firmware upgrade so I can squeeze out some more juice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3niX Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Well... This has something about fiddling with your cards BIOS: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/23/ove...n_five_minutes/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_root Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 what is your cpu? i have an c2d e4500 which is oc'd at 2.5 and with the 8800 GT i'm getting frames between 30-60 at 1024*768 only at big gun fights it drops at 25. as you see i didn't oc it a bit yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brutuz Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 I got 40~fps with a 6800GS and Pentium Dual core @ 2.55Ghz, along with 1Gb ram., 1024x768, no AA/AF everything set to low except physics (on high) Also, What driver do you have? Mine keeps getting weird corruption when I'm iun any kind of 2D mode (i.e. Not using Windows Aero) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew1g Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 169.25, latest ones. Never got anomalities in 2d, I have it installed on the 6800 system too, so it's fine @james Q6600 oh, and thanks 3niX, I'll try that out soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_root Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 q6600 so there is no performance difference between e4500 and Q6600 at crysis? woah what a game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocketkiller Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 If all 8800GTs are based on the reference nvidia card, then all the BIOSes would work, you would just need to force the flashing program to ignore vendor information. The program you need is nvflash. Not sure if it works with the 8800GT, but that's what I used for flashing my 7600GT a while ago. You need to make a bootable floppy and copy the program onto it, with the BIOS file you want to flash. Then boot it and backup your current BIOS just in case, and finally flash the new BIOS. Looking through the command list, my guess is that you'll have to type "nvflash.exe -b<file to save to>", then "nvflash.exe -f <new BIOS file>" It'll probably warm you that the BIOS you're flashing is for another manufacturer, just ignore than and proceed. But once again, I wouldn't recommend voltmodding video cards, it's not as safe as voltmodding CPUs. If you end up with a dead card you won't be able to flash it back to the original BIOS so you won't be able to RMA it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew1g Posted December 25, 2007 Author Share Posted December 25, 2007 so there is no performance difference between e4500 and Q6600 at crysis? Game is more optimised for dual then quad. Sad to think about such a demanding game not being optimised for crysis. But hey, look at all the other apps I'm running in the background and not slowing down crysis thanks for the Heads up rocket . I'm in the process of preparing backups and such just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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