MSI 7970 Lightning BE Voltage

[DrUrge 10]

Hello guys. I have MSI Lightning as mentioned above and wanted to know, if i can tweak the voltage above 1.35v?

[svl7 5640]

Most likely not without a hardmod. Can I see that vbios?

[DrUrge 10]

Ok, i`ll upload it tonight! Thanks

[DrUrge 10]

So, be my guest

7970Lightning-BE.rom

[bob(nz) 10]

Not sure about Boost Edition cards - but for standard 7970 lightnings you could increase volts up to 1.70V using modified MSI Afterburner (obviously not recommended unless you have ln2, know what you are doing, and are okay risking to kill the card )

[m3t4lh34d 10]

Not without hardmodding.

[DrUrge 10]

Hmm, I think i would never get the modified Afterburner

[shadowtricks 10]

You have to hardmod your VGA to achieve this.

[jamesvictor 0]

But that's only the beginning of downsides! 5700XT is higher binned than 5700 and the BIOS is designed for that higher bin. Flashing 5700 pushes the card higher than what it was validated for and potentially introduces a lot of instability into your system. Encouraging 5700 flashing just means more people with unstable, crashing, and black screening hardware, who will read rumours about bad drivers and blame their issues on AMD drivers, further compounding the negativity surrounding AMD.

Moreover, flashing 5700 voids your warranty, so if you kill your GPU by doing so, you're screwed.

Tl;dr: STOP THIS. Recommending everyone to do this is bad and just makes things worse for everyone.agency banking software