AMD ATIFlash - Comments (Page 2)

BigMaMaInHouse

2017-04-19 20:11

do like I did- find a review on you rebranded card and ask the person who made the review to share the bios . hope for you they will be nice like Hilbert ;-).

#5422372

vestibule

2017-04-19 20:18

TY I will give it a shot.

#5422376

Maddness

2017-04-19 20:28

I'm more concerned about the PCI-E power draw than anything which has probably been completely fixed on the RX 580. I would seriously think about this before flashing my 480.

#5422380

kapu

2017-04-19 20:40

I'm more concerned about the PCI-E power draw than anything which has probably been completely fixed on the RX 580. I would seriously think about this before flashing my 480.

Why worry? what could happen ?

#5422384

alanm

2017-04-19 21:00

I'm more concerned about the PCI-E power draw than anything which has probably been completely fixed on the RX 580. I would seriously think about this before flashing my 480.

Good point.

#5422388

asder00

2017-04-19 21:12

Took the rx 580 1450mhz Sapphire bios, edited with my mild oc with undervolt and 1750 ram timings: [spoiler]http://s28.postimg.org/uevifyytp/580_1.png http://s28.postimg.org/o2gd64vrh/580_2.png http://s28.postimg.org/vjpklclal/580_3.png[/spoiler] New limit in wattman for vcore is 1.200 (1.150 before) No issues in windows for now, gonna try games in a bit...

#5422392

JulianBr

2017-04-19 21:28

Does anyone have XFX 580 8GB bios? I have XFX 480 RS 8GB and would love to try this out. I remember doing this to my 5850, flashing it to 5870

#5422394

kapu

2017-04-19 21:35

How much this will affect temperatures on vram ? All my cards that were OCed and vram was not cooled enough died after 2-4 years. HD4850 , HD4870, HD6870, FX5800 and i think another one. ALL died same way or very similar , starts with small artifacts (white dots for example, or green artifacts). If it doesnt affect temperatures badly, i would do it without hesitation , if i had dual bios or second card i can flash bios i this fails!.

#5422420

vinyl

2017-04-19 23:27

Especially since, you're a relative youngster to some of us. Pong wasn't a thing in my youth...unless it used the actual paddles and balls.

I've just talked Pong recently so that made my day man, ty. Decaf day... If you do coffee endurance training, you understand breaks are a must (albeit, rendering slower up-take) Paddles were also in my youth and most certainly within too short a reach from parents and grandparents.. :P

#5422422

Elder III

2017-04-19 23:44

Could anyone that has been able to flash a 470 to 570 or 480 to 580 download the Nicehash GUI Miner from nicehash.com and run the benchmarks for the GPU? If you want to speed it up you could just check the 2 "DaggerHashimoto" algorithms that are at the top of the benchmark section and leave the rest unchecked. 🙂 www.nicehash.com

#5422451

Cave Waverider

2017-04-20 02:54

Nice that this works on the AMD cards. I'd love it if I could flash my Titan X (Pascal) to the new Titan Xp, too. But I guess that won't work with Nvidia. 🙁

#5422529

Maddness

2017-04-20 08:19

Why worry? what could happen ?

It would probably be fine with an AIB card with the 8 pin PCI-e. But remember the reference 480's that only came with 6 pin PCI-e. AMD had to reconfigure the drivers because there was a chance it could draw to much voltage from the motherboard socket and damage the board. The 580 draws more power than the 480 as it is clocked higher, so this could potentially make it even more of an issue.

#5422540

Hilbert Hagedoorn

Administrator

2017-04-20 09:07

It would probably be fine with an AIB card with the 8 pin PCI-e. But remember the reference 480's that only came with 6 pin PCI-e. AMD had to reconfigure the drivers because there was a chance it could draw to much voltage from the motherboard socket and damage the board. The 580 draws more power than the 480 as it is clocked higher, so this could potentially make it even more of an issue.

That did not effect custom boards from AIB partners. Just the early reference models.

#5422544

0blivious

2017-04-20 09:19

AMeDeus Rebrandus Maximus wants his RX 5x0 card back. Same ol', same ol', move along, nothing to see here...

AMD should send out 5 series stickers to anyone who bought a 4 series. So, you have an RX470? [Peel] ... [Hold it straight] ... [Stick...Rub] Presto-chango... Done! You've got an RX570 now!

#5422546

Maddness

2017-04-20 09:24

That did not effect custom boards from AIB partners. Just the early reference models.

Yes, that is very true. I just put that out there as there is bound to be someone with a reference board that tries this and could potentially kill the motherboard.

#5422550

gianluca

2017-04-20 09:32

It would probably be fine with an AIB card with the 8 pin PCI-e. But remember the reference 480's that only came with 6 pin PCI-e. AMD had to reconfigure the drivers because there was a chance it could draw to much voltage from the motherboard socket and damage the board. The 580 draws more power than the 480 as it is clocked higher, so this could potentially make it even more of an issue.

I thought this power draw thing was a problem only for the people with cheap motherboards. And the fact that AMD fixed this with drivers means that was mainly a software problem, fixed already for the 480 and not present in the 580. So I guess flashing the bios won't bring back the old software configuration of the reference 480. As for the 6 pin power connector, as far as I know this can deliver more than 150W (up to 200), not the 75W some say, and PCI-E 3.0 is designed to deliver more power than the PCI-E 2.0. In other words the 6 pin connector shouldn't limit the overclocking capability of the card when using a motherboad with PCI-E 3.0 slot and the power draw for this card shouldn't be a problem eventually, because it could handle it without damage. Now, I'm far from expert on this regard, I know only what I read, so I can be wrong, but I kinda trust Roman 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq47qmwcus8

#5422558

CPC_RedDawn

2017-04-20 10:03

Anyone not worried that the RX480 has only 1 PCIE Connector (apart from certain vendor models) and the RX580 has 2 PCIE Connectors!?? I can see people bricking their cards this way, unless you edited the BIOS files to lower the clock speeds... then what is the point really they are both identical cards anyway?

#5422563

fantaskarsef

2017-04-20 10:18

Great to see this, since there's little actual hardware changes, this is quite nice to allow people to do.

Nice that this works on the AMD cards. I'd love it if I could flash my Titan X (Pascal) to the new Titan Xp, too. But I guess that won't work with Nvidia. 🙁

This won't work just like with AMD card that don't have the same chip on them... "up-flashing" only works if your chip has all the same cores. (See the example between 270X and 370X for instance, above.)

#5422603

edilsonj

2017-04-20 12:01

Anyone not worried that the RX480 has only 1 PCIE Connector (apart from certain vendor models) and the RX580 has 2 PCIE Connectors!?? I can see people bricking their cards this way, unless you edited the BIOS files to lower the clock speeds... then what is the point really they are both identical cards anyway?

Only reference cards has one.

#5422615

FookDat

2017-04-20 12:46

I just flashed my XFX RX480 XXX 8GB version with the sapphire limited edition bios... had to use atiwinflash -p 0 -f bios.rom installed drivers now runs 1411/2000 and says RX580 woot :banana: EDIT: Battlefield 1 keeps crashing with a directx error... i have tried bumping volts and clean driver installs.... I am going to try downclocking now to see if it stables out