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Noted. I'll definitively keep that in mind for 'when' (not if) I get my second card. Flashed back for now (after 24 hrs testing) to see if there's any differences in temps. So far it's very very close so I'd say 1c or 2c maximum on demanding games/benchs and even then, it might be the room temperature that made the difference -- it can get very hot in here even with AC. So, kudos to vl7 for this mod.. very impressive!

Note that the new GPUz 0.7.2 now reads (sensors) correctly for modded BIOS (0.7.1 didn't in my case). OK, I made the plunge to modded BIOS NOTE: I used nvflash 5.138 & I did not have to use --protectoff (for those interested in those things). Differernces between stock on Gigabyte GTX 780 WF 3X OC... Base clocks revert down to the nVidia reference (makes sense). No Boost (fine by me) Games that do NOT require much juice will throttle the core speed, but not the voltage... voltage is **always** at whatever you set it (1.212v in my case). So BL2 will throttle the core to 901mhz (lowest possible) but not the voltage. In the stock BIOS, it would throttle down to 964 (or was it 954) & voltage to 1.025v. Temps are about the same on the gigabyte GTX 780 Windforce 3x OC. I really like the cooler on that card. Improvement over my stock BIOS was Valley 70.0 to 72.3 -- at least I know now that the extra voltage helps.. not by much though. I can now run at 1202/3500 while stock was 1176/500.. so +26Mhz gain. Worth it? not sure.. but at least the option is there if I ever want it! which is nice to know. Remember that my card is ASIC 62.3%. So it was worth a try definitively. I'll probably revert to Stock (gotta try it anyway to be 'certain' that the backup works).

Finally got my answer! I will try the BIOS after this post . I'd have a question about throttling for low demanding games though. Does it stick to max OC? or does it throttle when the power is really not required? (say I play Oblivion.. still do with tons of MODS), my current BIOS throttle down voltage & clock, & my temps never exceed 42c! Just hoping it will do the same with this BIOS. Going to test right now... brb with some results

I just tried nvflash 5.138 in Win7 64bit, using an administrator DOS window & it saved my BIOS. My card is Gigabyte GV-N780OC-3GD 780 GTX Windforce 3X OC Worst comes to worst, I posted it on OCN, but I also could upload it here. I didn't try flashing it yet though since I don't think I use a modded BIOS for now (card works fine as it is atm). Here's the result of the nvflash --save (see attachment) result.txt

Hi, I haven't tried nvflash yet, but I discovered that Gigabyte has a tool called vga@bios which was able to backup my BIOS for the my GB 780 Windforce OC. Worth checking. It uses nvflash 5.138 -v to get info on the board. Just tried it and it works. Are you able to -v with it? (dos window administrator mode)