Leaked BIOS easily turns Radeon HD 7970 into GHz Edition - Page 3

Rich_Guy · 07-15-2012, 20:53 | posts: 6,679 | Location: UK

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Originally Posted by Pill Monster

My thoughts exactly.

Mine to, i had my 7970 clocked to 1070/1575 24/7, all done by moving the sliders along in the Overdrive of the CCC, so why not just do that, and have it stay there, instead of your core going up and down all the time via a BIOS flash

Lowki · 07-15-2012, 23:51 | posts: 406 | Location: miami

i flashed mine plays great only thing im worried about is the amps have sky rocketed. Is this anything to worry about i just upgraded my psu but it only has 70 amps on the 12v rail

my voltage actually went down

Lane · *Last edited by Lane; 07-16-2012 at 17:18.*

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Originally Posted by La_Croato

Is there a tool to modify the stock BIOS on a 7970?
The latest Version of Radeon BIOS Editor is unfortunately from March 2011.

No there's not . Impossible to mod the bios of 7970 for now . ( it is possible with 7970M ( mobile version ), but not for the "desktop " cards .)

The only one who had pre-modded bios are overclockers who work closely with Brand as Asus, MSI, Gigabyte etc .

The problem yet seems to be the bios signature who have not be cracked..

GhostXL · 07-16-2012, 20:08 | posts: 4,925 | Location: PA, USA

I'm giving this a shot asap, I'll report back on the events' conclusion.

Thanks very much for this link and information. Greatly appreciated.

defcoms · *Last edited by defcoms; 07-16-2012 at 22:11.*

Flashed my MSI 7970 Ref. cards to this bios and all is well. Only issue I had was I switched the bios switch to #2 and it is write protected..Doh. Switched to the #1 bios on both cards and it flashed both cards with no issues. Also has anyone got any black/grey screens crashes with this bios and the 12.7 drivers? I have not got one since I have flashed to this bios using the 12.7 beta drivers.

Edit: The fans do spin up and make a little more noise at full load but it is not unbearable.

Lowki · 07-17-2012, 00:08 | posts: 406 | Location: miami

no crashes the fan does speed up alot more but its not bad. Games are playing great can see the core boost in action with afterburner. : )

defcoms · *Last edited by defcoms; 07-17-2012 at 02:12.*

Gaming and monitoring the voltage from GPU-Z:
Low = 0.943 V
High = 1.238
Max temp I seen was 82c with a 25c ambient temp.
Max fan speed 47%

2D- clocks seem off ?
500 MHz gpu
1500 Mhz memory

2nd GPU powered off in 2d mode clocks up in 3d mode.

3D- Turbo Boost stayed at 1050 Mhz and never down clocked, but you can see the voltage changing in the sensors tab. The temps are about 5 deg above prior to bios update at same clock speed.

Edit:
Did some testing in Multi-monitor modes the 2d clocks are 500/1500 you go to one monitor and they return to the normal 2d clocks. I am guessing they are doing this for eyefinity. I noticed when you drag windows around in eyefinity they don't leave trails anymore.

eue · *Last edited by eue; 07-17-2012 at 02:26.*

does anyone has voltage control? i don't have so i am gonna switch back to normal 7970

to many reasons to not use ghz edition bios (all this results are at 1050/1500 stock volts for 7970 and all stock for 7970ghz bios)
1-> hotter 86ºc vs 81ºc (in a very hot day)
2-> noisier 50% fan speed vs 47% (again hot day... about 32ºc ambient)
3-> no voltage control for boost on any software available (at least for now) only controls the 1000mhz voltage
4-> at the same speed the normal 7970 is faster because it never goes down on the clock of gpu (3dmark vantage drops 200 point on extreme only gpu score because of 86ºC making the card some times go even under 900mhz... dont know why)
5-> more power consumption and you cant under-volt the boost clock despite my card can do 1125 at stock 1.112v

pros
1-> faster than any stock gpu on the market to fill your ego (sort of)
2-> better overclock at stock voltage (1200mhz vs 1150 but only because of higher stock voltage)

i am saying this just because i tested and this was what i got

concluding
Stick with what you got if you are a real enthusiast of tweaking (while proper software for voltage control is not out) or flash it to test it yourself like i did... greetings from Portugal to all of you

Lowki · 07-17-2012, 02:23 | posts: 406 | Location: miami

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Originally Posted by defcoms

Gaming and monitoring the voltage from GPU-Z:
Low = 0.943 V
High = 1.238
Max temp I seen was 82c with a 25c ambient temp.
Max fan speed 47%

2D- clocks seem off ?
500 MHz gpu
1500 Mhz memory

2nd GPU powered off in 2d mode clocks up in 3d mode.

3D- Turbo Boost stayed at 1050 Mhz and never down clocked, but you can see the voltage changing in the sensors tab. The temps are about 5 deg above prior to bios update at same clock speed.

Edit:
Did some testing in Multi-monitor modes the 2d clocks are 500/1500 you go to one monitor and they return to the normal 2d clocks. I am guessing they are doing this for eyefinity. I noticed when you drag windows around in eyefinity they don't leave trails anymore.

It took along time for mine do downclock the fan was going pretty hard. From what ive read it will only downclock when it is getting hott so if you got an aftermarket cooler it may never clock down or rarely.

defcoms · 07-17-2012, 02:33 | posts: 94 | Location: Florida

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Originally Posted by Lowki

It took along time for mine do downclock the fan was going pretty hard. From what ive read it will only downclock when it is getting hott so if you got an aftermarket cooler it may never clock down or rarely.

No aftermarket cooling just good airflow in my case Thermaltake Level 10 GT. I am guessing that is good that it is staying in turbo boost clocks! I am Liking this so far. I have not had one black screen and 100% fan all night fingers crossed. I will report any crashes or odd behavior.

hallryu · 07-17-2012, 15:57 | posts: 10,848 | Location: England

I'm still losing my second screen in anything other than 2D clocks, no matter what settings I use, bumped the voltage up too but still my second screen locks up and doesn't come back.

Switched to default bios and all is ok again. looks like I'm going to have to force flash to return to default bios as well. Oh well!

Lane · *Last edited by Lane; 07-17-2012 at 18:06.*

Bad luck ... will be interessant if you can give use the Asic quality of your card.

In addition peoples who use this bios, can you report the max Vcore usable under MSIAB and Trixx ( attention the new version of Trixxx allow allready more voltage for OC ( 1368 or 1388mv if im right )..

Anyway for multimonitor, this is a known thing, not a bug, the cards run at 500/1500mhz, ( even Nvidia cards work like that. ) ( hence the higher powerconsumption reported by review in multi-monitor tests ). Even if you just wire a TV on the cards it will goes like that. Dont ask me why, but this is like that for multi-monitor since some generation.

defcoms · 07-17-2012, 18:31 | posts: 94 | Location: Florida

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Originally Posted by Lane

Bad luck ... will be interessant if you can give use the Asic quality of your card.

In addition peoples who use this bios, can you report the max Vcore usable under MSIAB and Trixx ( attention the new version of Trixxx allow allready more voltage for OC ( 1368 or 1388mv if im right )..

Anyway for multimonitor, this is a known thing, not a bug, the cards run at 500/1500mhz, ( even Nvidia cards work like that. ) ( hence the higher powerconsumption reported by review in multi-monitor tests ). Even if you just wire a TV on the cards it will goes like that. Dont ask me why, but this is like that for multi-monitor since some generation.

That is odd my cards prior to this bios update were running at 300/150 with eyefinity enabled. I noticed when moving windows around I would ghosting trails following the window. I wonder if that is the cause of my black screen crashes. They only seemed to happen when a game goes 2d or switching from 2d to 3d.

heroxoot · 07-21-2012, 06:16 | posts: 203 | Location: TN

I have a lightning which stocks 1070/1400, so this bios is of no use to me, but I do have a question. This card has a dual bios. Could you install the GHZ bios to Slot B for testing and if it got destroyed return to A for the working original? Just curious.

kidsafe · 07-21-2012, 10:44 | posts: 16

Anyone know why I can't flash my reference 7970 with this executable? I'm getting the "Invalid PC BIOS Image" message. Using ATIWinFlash with normal 7970 BIOSes works fine otherwise.

Comrade_Jerkov · 07-21-2012, 16:33 | posts: 126 | Location: Boston, MA

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Originally Posted by leopr

Worth trying it on my ref 7970 (1275/1700 1.2v) ? I remember trying to hit 1300mhz but never got past 1285 no matter what ;(.

I don't see the point. The chip is the chip. 1275/1700 @ only 1.2v is a dream overclock. I would be happy just leaving it there.

defcoms · 07-21-2012, 18:01 | posts: 94 | Location: Florida

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Originally Posted by heroxoot

I have a lightning which stocks 1070/1400, so this bios is of no use to me, but I do have a question. This card has a dual bios. Could you install the GHZ bios to Slot B for testing and if it got destroyed return to A for the working original? Just curious.

Yes that is what I did. I got the ghz edtion Bios on switch 1 and normal write protected switch 2.

defcoms · 07-21-2012, 18:03 | posts: 94 | Location: Florida

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Originally Posted by kidsafe

Anyone know why I can't flash my reference 7970 with this executable? I'm getting the "Invalid PC BIOS Image" message. Using ATIWinFlash with normal 7970 BIOSes works fine otherwise.

Did you run as administrator ?

kidsafe · 07-22-2012, 08:19 | posts: 16

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Originally Posted by defcoms

Did you run as administrator ?

Yep.

defcoms · 07-22-2012, 17:50 | posts: 94 | Location: Florida

Kidsafe

Do you have a different Bios on the card now? If so maybe try and flash back to the original bios then try the AMD ghz bios tool.

CoMa666 · 07-22-2012, 22:05 | posts: 190 | Location: Italy-Bari

same problems...

I simply don't want to flash to ghz edition for make 12.7 stable, i tried but

it's say to me can't do with that...

CoMa666 · 07-22-2012, 22:11 | posts: 190 | Location: Italy-Bari

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Originally Posted by kidsafe

anyone know why i can't flash my reference 7970 with this executable? I'm getting the "invalid pc bios image" message. Using atiwinflash with normal 7970 bioses works fine otherwise.

this!

kidsafe · 07-22-2012, 23:31 | posts: 16

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Originally Posted by defcoms

Kidsafe

Do you have a different Bios on the card now? If so maybe try and flash back to the original bios then try the AMD ghz bios tool.

I just copied the ROM from the other position on the switch to the writable one and tried the GHz BIOS executable, still the same error.

Falkentyne · 07-23-2012, 00:08 | posts: 367

What is the "1000 mhz" voltage that people are talking about with regards to voltage control?

And yeah there doesn't seem to be a way to change the regular 3d voltage. (Ram voltage is the same). Not an issue if you were fine with 1175/1187, though, but for others....

And no GSOD anymore in 2D on 12.7's! I did get one in BF3, but that was my fault because I had the RAM running at 1750 (forgot I had it that high) and BF3 did three pauses first and resumes (not a vpu recover) then the 4th one, GSOD. Set it back to 1700, the proper max and I was fine.

Anyone have a solution for vcore 3d changes or do we have to email Sapphire for an updated Trixx?

defcoms · 07-23-2012, 01:27 | posts: 94 | Location: Florida

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Originally Posted by kidsafe

I just copied the ROM from the other position on the switch to the writable one and tried the GHz BIOS executable, still the same error.

Just tossing this out there don't know if it matters or not but is your card in the first PCIE slot? Do you have onboard video?