cozmosland Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I know this has been brought up before and as some of you know,you currently cannot overclock the memory on a 8970m. doing so by even 1 mhz causes system freeze.has anyone seen a custom vbios or another solution to this. I read somewhere about changing settings in an .ini or something somewhere but that also made no difference.thanks for reading. sorry if there is a similar post already.(i know the 7970m is the same card and the possibity of maybe using that vbios) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bauto601 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 !Don't! use a 7970m bios, it will brick your gpu. You can maybe repair it with a blind flash but well, a 7970m bios just won't work on a 8970m. I was also looking for a solution to overclock the memory but i think it's not needed. The card already got 150gb/s and the 20% slower gtx770 has only 95gb/s. So i think you will gain more performance with a vbios with a higher gpu voltage and then overclock your gpu core. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cozmosland Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 you could be right.I know you cant just flash a 7970vbios. I should have gone into more detail.I read somewhere about possibly taking the vbios and modifying it to work with the 8970m. But thats not something i would do on my own.Unfortunatly as far as i can find there isnt a lot of support for these cards. and seems to be a lot more support for the 7970m.ati sure shit the bed in the beginning with driver reliability.what is the farthest so far that the core can be clocked to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cozmosland Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 As an added note. I put the core up to 1ghz and ran 3dmark11I got almost the same result of 7420 because the Damn card throttled to 944 on most runs.Put the core up a little more and the comp crashed.Guess it needs more voltage already ugh.Dont like the throttling!Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millray2002 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Hi,I have an MSIGX640, and i'm going to upgrade my GPU to amd 7970m, do i still need to flash the vbios, in order for the hdmi to work, and is this the only reason for flashing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cozmosland Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 Hey.You may want to start another thread as your question isn't related to this topic.And sorry. That I do not know Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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