Unlocked Nvidia-Dell Video BIOS! Overclock ... ... Quote:Originally Posted by dougadamsfanNo, you'd have to bu ...

hque · 12-22-2006, 04:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dougadamsfan

No, you'd have to build a seperate rom for the 7950. Maybe someone will be kind and write it for you but these specific ones are no go for you. EDIT (in reference to Zyb) **I believe that the 7950 bios is sufficiently different from the 7900 GS/GTX that they are not compatible. Since these changes are built into 7900 GS/GTX bioses wouldn't you need to alter the parts in the 7950 bios? EDIT again BAH when I read it closer this is actually what you meant (I think)**

As it is right now, if you have a GPU that is 6800 Ultra or above in a dell, your card is bios locked, meaning that the only way you can overclock it is to boot to a seperate disk and flash the bios (using special bioses that you (or someone else) have created), you have to do this each and every time you want to change the clocks on your card which means writing a lot of bios files.

Now if you flash this bios to your card you won't have to flash each time you want to change your clocks. All you will need to do is go into coolbits change your clocks accordingly, click apply and voila your clocks are changed. It's a much easier and more user friendly way of increasing performance if you choose, or decreasing performance (usually also means lower temperatures) if you want to.

Warning this process can be dangerous if you don't know what it is exactly you're doing.

okay - then this won't help nor does it apply to me. I am not that high level. But thank you for breaking this down for me.

brownstone · 12-22-2006, 05:29 PM

This is great. Thx.

So I have the 7900GTX. So I need to use the 79GTXUOV.ROM then to enable me to change the mem and core?

Just want to make sure first

.

dajohu · 12-22-2006, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brownstone

This is great. Thx.

So I have the 7900GTX. So I need to use the 79GTXUOV.ROM then to enable me to change the mem and core?

Just want to make sure first

.

I am in the same boat.

I would love to have more control over overclocking with my 7900GTX but unless I missed it somewhere I didn't see that it was compatible.

Firestarter · 12-22-2006, 06:56 PM

I flashed it on my 7900GTX an dit works great, very good work!!!

But as my latency already was on the best setting, I'm not able to go further then 635/735 (running since I have the card) without getting artifacts or freezes, but with this bios I'm able to change the freqs each time I'm willing to without flashing the card every time.

brownstone · 12-22-2006, 07:06 PM

So which one r u using? I haven't messed with my latency and don't know how to. Which one should I use anyways?

Firestarter · 12-22-2006, 07:21 PM

I used the 79GTXUOV.rom

I didn't change anything on the latency myself, my card came with the best latency for the 7900GTX (same latency which sergiop posted in the other thread), but for u the rom maybe could bring better latency

brownstone · 12-22-2006, 08:11 PM

Thx firestarter. I just flashed the 7900gtx with the 79GTXUOV.rom and it works fine.

pdonket · 12-22-2006, 08:16 PM

Just got the 790GSUOV.ROM on and now at 625:800

Final_spirit · 12-22-2006, 08:22 PM

Awesome job, just flashed the 790GSUOV.ROM and running smooth at 600/800. Being able to keep the GS BIOS instead of the GTX BIOS helped with a problem I was having with Windows Media Player due to the GSX Mod.

Thanks a ton for your amazing work.

juanlu206 · 12-22-2006, 09:49 PM

Hi,
Thanks to Sergio I have found that when AC is unplugged, performance drops to about 1/20, which means, that you cannot watch a movie, play a game, etc.

I have solved this small issue, and i have updated the ISO link.

So please download the new bioses and install them again.

I hope you are having fun Oceing your cards.

Please for other bios... be patients

Merry Christmas.

Juan Luis Garrido.

brownstone · 12-22-2006, 10:11 PM

Thanks again!

pdonket · 12-22-2006, 10:15 PM

Awesome, thanks for the update!

Please do stay on these forums, you're the type of help we need. We of course have some others great in this, but you're making tons of people VERY happy.

Krayziepop · 12-22-2006, 11:50 PM

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Heres another kind of odd issue, maybe it's driver related. See if you can spot the problem...

How many of you guys have had the pleasure of having a nearly 90 WATT power drain? Apparantly the VGA BIOS now cannot tell the difference between AC Line operation and Battery op... Either that or its the 92.91 drivers I am using... Anybody else wanna chime in before I wipe these drivers and start again?

stuckinasquare3 · 12-22-2006, 11:58 PM

i dont understand what that all means =(
whats this talk about latencies and whats with the 3 different 7900gtx roms? Which one do we use
also im lookin at ur screenshot, whats with the 3 different sets of core and memory sliders, i never used atitool for OCing

pdonket · 12-23-2006, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Krayziepop

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Heres another kind of odd issue, maybe it's driver related. See if you can spot the problem...

How many of you guys have had the pleasure of having a nearly 90 WATT power drain? Apparantly the VGA BIOS now cannot tell the difference between AC Line operation and Battery op... Either that or its the 92.91 drivers I am using... Anybody else wanna chime in before I wipe these drivers and start again?

Mine is working as it should, no issues with the 92.77 drivers. Something is wrong with a driver or something, did you reflash to the new updated version of the ROM's?

12-22-2006, 06:56 PM	#49
Firestarter TH3 R00F IS ON F1R3 Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 221 Credits: -272	I flashed it on my 7900GTX an dit works great, very good work!!! But as my latency already was on the best setting, I'm not able to go further then 635/735 (running since I have the card) without getting artifacts or freezes, but with this bios I'm able to change the freqs each time I'm willing to without flashing the card every time. __________________ Dell XPS M1730: Core 2 Duo X7900 (2,8 - 3,4 GHz 800 MHz 4 MB L2 - Cache) \| GeForce 8700M SLI (2x 256 MB DDR3 - RAM) \| 4 GB DDR2 - SDRAM (2x 2048 MB 800 MHz @ 677) \| 320 GB Raid 0 (2x 160 GB 7.200 RPM) 3DMark 05: 19,173 Points with CPU @ 3,4 and GPU @ 735/1875/1025 -> ORB-Link 3DMark 06: 11,257 Points with CPU @ 3,4 and GPU @ 735/1875/1025 -> ORB-Link Last edited by Firestarter; 12-22-2006 at 07:06 PM.

12-22-2006, 07:21 PM	#51
Firestarter TH3 R00F IS ON F1R3 Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 221 Credits: -272	I used the 79GTXUOV.rom I didn't change anything on the latency myself, my card came with the best latency for the 7900GTX (same latency which sergiop posted in the other thread), but for u the rom maybe could bring better latency __________________ Dell XPS M1730: Core 2 Duo X7900 (2,8 - 3,4 GHz 800 MHz 4 MB L2 - Cache) \| GeForce 8700M SLI (2x 256 MB DDR3 - RAM) \| 4 GB DDR2 - SDRAM (2x 2048 MB 800 MHz @ 677) \| 320 GB Raid 0 (2x 160 GB 7.200 RPM) 3DMark 05: 19,173 Points with CPU @ 3,4 and GPU @ 735/1875/1025 -> ORB-Link 3DMark 06: 11,257 Points with CPU @ 3,4 and GPU @ 735/1875/1025 -> ORB-Link

12-22-2006, 08:16 PM	#53
pdonket :D Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Westchester, New York Posts: 9,072 Credits: 73,298	Just got the 790GSUOV.ROM on and now at 625:800 __________________ E1705: 1.83ghz C2D-1.5gb @533-7900GS-120gb 5400rpm-WXGA+ LC32D62U 32" Sharp 1080p HDTV Dell XPS 420: 2.4ghz Q6600-3gb@800mhz-8800GT- 2x(500gb 7200rpm) Raid 0- LC32D62U 32" Sharp 1080p HDTV M1330 (Black) : T7100-8400GS-2gb 667-120gb 5400rpm-WXGA-

12-22-2006, 08:22 PM	#54
Final_spirit Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Jersey Posts: 32 Credits: 60	Awesome job, just flashed the 790GSUOV.ROM and running smooth at 600/800. Being able to keep the GS BIOS instead of the GTX BIOS helped with a problem I was having with Windows Media Player due to the GSX Mod. Thanks a ton for your amazing work. __________________ Dell Inspiron E1705 Intel Core Duo T2400 1.83 Ghz 667mhz FSB 80GB 7200RPM HD 160GB WD 7200RPM USB 2.0 HD NVidia GeForce Go 7900 GSX 2 GB Ram 667mhz 17" WXGA+ Screen Internal Intel Pro Wireless/Bluetooth 8X DVD-RW/ 24x CD-RW 4 Year Gold Warranty Benchmarks: Superpi 2M: 1m16s 3dMark05: GSX/615/850: 8942 3dMark06: GSX/615/850: 5641

12-22-2006, 10:15 PM	#57
pdonket :D Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Westchester, New York Posts: 9,072 Credits: 73,298	Awesome, thanks for the update! Please do stay on these forums, you're the type of help we need. We of course have some others great in this, but you're making tons of people VERY happy. __________________ E1705: 1.83ghz C2D-1.5gb @533-7900GS-120gb 5400rpm-WXGA+ LC32D62U 32" Sharp 1080p HDTV Dell XPS 420: 2.4ghz Q6600-3gb@800mhz-8800GT- 2x(500gb 7200rpm) Raid 0- LC32D62U 32" Sharp 1080p HDTV M1330 (Black) : T7100-8400GS-2gb 667-120gb 5400rpm-WXGA-

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12-22-2006, 05:29 PM	#47
brownstone Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 601 Credits: -23	This is great. Thx. So I have the 7900GTX. So I need to use the 79GTXUOV.ROM then to enable me to change the mem and core? Just want to make sure first .

12-22-2006, 07:06 PM	#50
brownstone Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 601 Credits: -23	So which one r u using? I haven't messed with my latency and don't know how to. Which one should I use anyways?

12-22-2006, 08:11 PM	#52
brownstone Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 601 Credits: -23	Thx firestarter. I just flashed the 7900gtx with the 79GTXUOV.rom and it works fine.

12-22-2006, 09:49 PM	#55
juanlu206 Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 34 Credits: -320	Hi, Thanks to Sergio I have found that when AC is unplugged, performance drops to about 1/20, which means, that you cannot watch a movie, play a game, etc. I have solved this small issue, and i have updated the ISO link. So please download the new bioses and install them again. I hope you are having fun Oceing your cards. Please for other bios... be patients Merry Christmas. Juan Luis Garrido.

12-22-2006, 10:11 PM	#56
brownstone Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 601 Credits: -23	Thanks again!

12-22-2006, 11:50 PM	#58
Krayziepop Moderator Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Flushing, MI Posts: 4,762 Credits: 100,488	Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm..... Heres another kind of odd issue, maybe it's driver related. See if you can spot the problem... How many of you guys have had the pleasure of having a nearly 90 WATT power drain? Apparantly the VGA BIOS now cannot tell the difference between AC Line operation and Battery op... Either that or its the 92.91 drivers I am using... Anybody else wanna chime in before I wipe these drivers and start again? __________________ "Here in the real world they're shuttin' Detroit down..."

12-22-2006, 11:58 PM	#59
stuckinasquare3 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,209 Credits: 153	i dont understand what that all means =( whats this talk about latencies and whats with the 3 different 7900gtx roms? Which one do we use also im lookin at ur screenshot, whats with the 3 different sets of core and memory sliders, i never used atitool for OCing __________________ M1710 - T7200 - 2GB - 7950GTX - 7K100 - XP Home - SOLD Inspiron 1420 - T7300 - 2GB - 160GB HD - XP Pro

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