Moded 5900XT BIOSes

Dr.InfernO · *Last edited by Dr.InfernO; 08-20-2004 at 00:07.*

The First i want to say is, thanks to jimmor who is still moding the XT BIOSes I've upped them to my Webspace.

Non Voltage Tuning BIOSes:

AOpen Aeolus 5900XT (300/480/800) - RL BIOS-Version included

Creative 3D Blaster 5 FX5900(SE) / MSI FX5900XT-VTD128 MS-8937 (300/480/800) - Relaxing latency BIOS-Version included

Creative 3D Blaster 5 FX5900(SE) / MSI FX5900XT-VTD128 MS-8937 (300/480/800) - Relaxing latency, THROTTLING SET

Club 3D GeForce FX5900XT (300/480/800) - Relaxing latency BIOS-Version included
^-- New version with THROTTLING SET [appropriate to stock core 3D speed]

Point Of View Geforce FX5900XT (300/450/850) - Relaxing Latency, THROTTLING SET, VOLT-MOD

Point Of View GeForce FX5900XT (300/500/930 & 300/475/950) - latency, volt and throttling mods

(GURU 3D BIOS) GeForce FX 5900XT/SE based on CLUB 3D BIOS (300/480/850) - Both latency versions included, VOLT MOD

leadtek A350THD BIOS-SET (450/930) & (500/930) - Relaxing Latency, THROTTLING SET, VOLT-MOD
^-- LEADTEK BIOS is !!!ONLY!!! for good 5900XTs

!NEW 5900XT BIOS!
Leadtek A350XT TDH BIOS (300/450/850) - Relaxing Latency, Volt and Throttling Mod
!NEW 5900XT BIOS!

GIGABYTE GeForce 5900XT (300/450/780) - Latency, volt and throttling mods

EVGA5900SE stocks at 300/450/800 and MSI5900XT stocks at 300/485/800

gainward 5900XTstock speeds at 300/450/800

Several FX5950U BIOSes underclocked to (300/450/750)

Gigabyte 5900XT (300/475/820) - voltmod, throttling and latency changes

Sparkle 5900Xt (W5D) (300/490/730) - voltmod, throttling and latency changes

Chaintech FX5900XT (300/480/850) - Latency-, Volt-, Throttlingmod

Palit FX5900XT (300/520/800) - Latency-, Volt-, Throttlingmod

Leadtek FX5900XT (300/450/850) -Latency-, Volt-, Throttlingmod

Albatron FX5900XTV 300/450/750 - Latency-, Volt-, Throttlingmod

Extra BIOS Type of a 5900NU: (as a basic example of what a modified 5900nu can achieve)

Aopen 5900NU BIOS with stocks 300/500/950 - Throttling-, Volt-, Latency- and Timingmod

Extra BIOS Type of a 5900ULTRA: (jimmor modded it, because of interest from forum)

Creative(MSI) FX5900Ultra BIOS with stocks 300/500/950 - Throttling-, Volt-, Latency- and Timingmod

NEW TYPE of a GeForce FX 5950 BIOS!

BFG 5950ULTRA high-performance BIOS with stocks (300/510/970) Latency, Timing and Throttling Mod!

Please Test it, Benchmark it, and tell us your Experience!

Files are Updated! (19. 08. 2004 23:42 /Germany, Berlin)

butterwaach · 04-16-2004, 03:01 | posts: 827 | Location: from Hungary to Austria

so im done with testing your new bios (AOpen Aeolus FX 5900 XT 4.35.20.38.A6) with the volt mod and modified latencies!!

well the old one i used from jimmor and inferno ruled allready (it was the modified creative bios with stock speed 300/480/800 and the latency mod) which ran stable at 520/810, but this one kick ass!!

evrything worked fine: as my AGP remained at 4x with fastwrite and SBA., the TV out worked fine (but i never use it), well i have to post that there was a vendor id missmatch during the flash but everything worked fine ... so who cares!?!

As for OC this one ran stable until 540/840 allthought after 10 mins of 3d mark 03 there was a short freeze so i aborted! but for far cry it remained stable (i tested later)! for 3d mark i lowered the core freq. by 5mhz and the memory by 20mhz (regarding that i still have crappy hynx 2.8 ns RAM chips). i realized that at 520/820 the gpu works much faster than before (ran the test direct after the aborted 3d mark)!

Final score : 5925 3DMarks

So let me asume:

standart bios - 480/760: 5733 3DMarks

creative bios - 520/810: 5817 3DMarks

Aopen bios - 520/820: 5925 3DMarks

so i think these bios works just fine for XT cards!

PS: i bet i can sqeeze out a little bit more! maybe i can hit the 6000 3DMakrs with 525/830! got to see tomorrow!
still ill will test the creative bios to! who knows maybe it is better

big TH(C)X to jimmor and inferno who provided me with the bios files!
greetz

Elanzer · 04-16-2004, 03:23 | posts: 3,466 | Location: Canada

How are you guys modding the latency? Which offset is it exactly? D:

jimmor · 04-16-2004, 03:54 | posts: 4,532 | Location: Scotland

Quote:

Originally posted by Elanzer
How are you guys modding the latency? Which offset is it exactly? D:

it was posted into the forum a few days ago. !!

you are supposed to look for the 8 bit binary word 07 03 0F 03, and replace it with 07 03 0F 43. The latter being that used in a 5950u bios.

seems to work for some XT cards, however it caused all sorts of problems with my 5900nu.

The equiv word in my bios is 07 00 0F 43, and it doesn't like being changed to the proposed 07 03 0F 43 ???

so change it with care !!!

Dr.InfernO · *Last edited by Dr.InfernO; 04-16-2004 at 07:46.*

jimmor you got another email with "memory" info material.

If Memory on XT is Samsung 316 K4D263238E-GC2A
If Memory on XT is Hnyx HY5DU283222([A]F-28)

Voltage on Samsung is 2.5V (+/- 5%)
Voltage on Hynx is 2.9V (+/- 5%)

I hope those were the correct binaries we need for it!

But when, I'm looking @ the Bench results i would say, that the values are correct! The Hynx Memory needs a higher Voltage so the creative(Samsung) BIOS isn't so fast like the AOpen(Hynx)!
AND I know that the XFX BIOS (Hynx) wasn't working correctly @ my Creative Card, but the AOpen worked fine under the XFX BIOS!

SOTR · 04-16-2004, 07:58 | posts: 10 | Location: Taiwan

Sorry for the noob question but my msi 5900xt's samsung rams gets artifacts at only 740. Would flashing it with the above bioses help?

Dr.InfernO · 04-16-2004, 08:10 | posts: 111 | Location: Germany - Berlin(Lichtenberg)

Probably, yes!

Download the one from creative and flash those "cr59xtRL.rom" file with relaxing timings!

And when you do it please tell us your experience, so we can continue our work!

Bye the way, MSI/Creative are almost the same.

04-16-2004, 08:20 | posts: n/a

Very nice work InfernO and jimmor! Hats off to you guys

Any idea how to lower the latencies? BTW I ask this for us 5900nu - 5950 ultra users.

I notice these same latencies are in my BFG 5950u bios. It would be kick-ass if we could lower them to make these cards faster too.

Thanks for any info.

04-16-2004, 08:35 | posts: n/a

You know what. I might have figured it out. I haven't tested this, but, this is what I'm thinking;

My BFG 5950u bios has these latencies...

07030F43

If I change it to...

07030F03

It should run faster, correct? This sounds risky though, because it might stress my 5900's 2.2 ns memory too hard. I'll check to see what timings were in my original bios and get back with you on this...

*edit - both the bfg 5900nu and bfg 5950u bios had the same exact latencies (07030F43)

Dr.InfernO · 04-16-2004, 08:39 | posts: 111 | Location: Germany - Berlin(Lichtenberg)

of cause, try it! But not everyone with a original 5900nu has a good experience with this! But try it!

04-16-2004, 08:53 | posts: n/a

i am thinking of trying the creative se bios. i am currently on the BFG 5950u modded bios

Dr.InfernO · 04-16-2004, 08:56 | posts: 111 | Location: Germany - Berlin(Lichtenberg)

REAL 5900NU's shouldn't flash to a XT/SE/LT BIOS!
Don't do it! It's another PCB.

04-16-2004, 09:04 | posts: n/a

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr.InfernO
REAL 5900NU's shouldn't flash to a XT/SE/LT BIOS!
Don't do it! It's another PCB.

mine's on 2.8ns memory. stock speeds 400/700

Dr.InfernO · *Last edited by Dr.InfernO; 04-16-2004 at 09:13.*

Then It's the same as a Creative 5900!
OK then do it!

If your GeForce has a clock Frequency of 400Core/700Memory
then it's ALWAYS a SE/LT not a nu.

Example:
Creative 3D Blaster 5 FX5900
It also has the same frequency of 400/700!

And TELL us your Bench/Gameing results!

04-16-2004, 09:27 | posts: n/a

worked like a charm. now the question is, how to go even lower? lol

we really need to figure out how to increase the voltage as well, as higher voltage allows for better stability

04-16-2004, 09:33 | posts: n/a

Quote:

Originally posted by Dr.InfernO
Then It's the same as a Creative 5900!
OK then do it!

If your GeForce has a clock Frequency of 400Core/700Memory
then it's ALWAYS a SE/LT not a nu.

Example:
Creative 3D Blaster 5 FX5900
It also has the same frequency of 400/700!

And TELL us your Bench/Gameing results!

i tried 3dmark01 mother nature & got 10-15fps more.

will try aquamark3 & 3dmark03 later on

Soto_Ayam · 04-16-2004, 09:58 | posts: 1,541 | Location: Canada

My eVGA 5900 SE with 2.8ns ram is running stable @ 440/875... is this too good to be true?

And the weird thing is that I cant go higher than 440mhz on core, any higher would cause games to crash/freeze. But my memory for some reason, hits 875 rock solid... now is this too good to be true? I don't want my card to crap out in a few days and keep in mind that this is 2.8ns RAM and its not a Leadtek 5900LX...

PS. I used Jimmor's modded BFG FX5950U BIOS. Thumbs up to those.

04-16-2004, 10:09 | posts: n/a

Hey there guys i got a Club3d 5900 XT w 128mb ram, any suggestions to what bios i could flash this baby with??

thx in advance

04-16-2004, 10:18 | posts: n/a

Quote:

Originally posted by Blitzer
Hey there guys i got a Club3d 5900 XT w 128mb ram, any suggestions to what bios i could flash this baby with??

thx in advance

u can get those modded 5950u bios or those modded 5900XT/SE bios to test it with.

Dr.InfernO · 04-16-2004, 10:39 | posts: 111 | Location: Germany - Berlin(Lichtenberg)

If your Card has Samsung memory use the Creative BIOS, if your memory is Hynx (HY....) then use the AOpen one!

FlashUK · 04-16-2004, 11:20 | posts: 305 | Location: Derby

WOW! A creative bios. weeeeeeeee

Ive been looking for one of these for ages!

Dr.InfernO, what scores are you getting with your 3D Blaster in 3Dmark03? And what are the default freqs of these creative bioses and how far are you able to push it?

Thanks

Thanks again

Dr.InfernO · 04-16-2004, 11:33 | posts: 111 | Location: Germany - Berlin(Lichtenberg)

Without the BIOS modification i could only push the BIOS to ca. 490Core/760Memory.
After the mod i was able to push it up to 490core/813mem!
My 3DMark03 score has been increased about 500Points!
The default clock of the new BIOS is:

2D Core ----> 300Mhz
3D Core ----> 480Mhz
2D/3D Memory -----> 800Mhz

FlashUK · 04-16-2004, 11:47 | posts: 305 | Location: Derby

Thats a fair whack on the clock speeds! I havent tried o/c'ing the card yet, guru3d got it up to around 440 core and 760 mem. U sure this is ok to flash? Wont turn my card into a doorstop!? lol. Oh, and i know all about that 'flashing is done at your own risk'

Cheers

FlashUK · 04-16-2004, 11:48 | posts: 305 | Location: Derby

1 more question, do you have any extra cooling on your card? And what is you idle case temp and temp after load?

Thanks a lot mate

04-16-2004, 11:53 | posts: n/a

In what way do i i c what mem this card use?? have flashed before but i honestly dont know what type of Ram this card use.... and hey thx for the quick replies...

btw chipset rev. is A1

will i be able able 2 run at agpx8 ?