280M to 285M

Is it possible to flash the 280M to 285M and get the tiny performance difference?

 

surely just overclocking would give you the same or a possibly better result and be far less experimental

 

Um, don't risk the bricking of your card, just for a name change.

Overclock your 280M and move on to safer things.

 

totally agree.. flashing to 285M could brick.. OCing is way easier and safer.

 

ok what on earth do u guys mean brick??
i've flashed my fx 3700m with all manner of vbioses. its still running strong and was totally worth it!
so 'bricking' is so horrible because you have to remember 'nvflash -4 -5 -6 28.rom', enter, 'y, y, y,' to type it into a black screen?? oh no!
i really dont understand, vbios flashing seems to be very low risk to me.

spradhan what i recommend is using nibitor to increase the clocks. just give it a permanent OC to gtx 285 speeds.

 

"brick" means that after you flash and the 9 time out of 10 it goes wrong

i,e power failure, a short, battery dies, lightning bolt comes through your window and zaps your laptop.

Thats all its going to be good for is using it as a paper weight or ^ "A Brick"

 

yes, flashing it with a vbios made for the card is fine.
flashing the vbios after editing clock speeds also fine and dandy (as long as you have tested the overclock thoroughly before doing so)
flash the card as many times as you want with those, heck spend all day flashing the vbios...
but flashing the vbios from a different card that may or may not work with the risk being an unusable card at the end of it? just plain silly

bringing me back to the point i made first, which you seem to agree with, just OC it.

 

Ummm

Well considering I have tried a gtx 280m vbios on 3 different fx 3700m cards when i'm talking about the 20+ vbios flashes i've done without bricking them.......

You'd think there would be a lot LESS risk going from a 280m to a 285m?
Actually these 2 cards are exactly the same except for clocks. find the vbios an compare the bytes, i dare you! as far as what the card needs, i mean its a basic needs and supply thing, they just are not different at all! nothing bad could happen at all!
seriously. theres no reason not to flash a gt 280m to a 285m, except that you wont easily find the .rom file.

I'm pretty sure the only thing that would destroy a card would be trying to flash it to something thats not a G92 core.

I mean a bunch of 3600m cards that had a HP proprietary vbios not made for any LCD output but that of an 8710w are now running strong in 5 peoples various alienwares and clevos. they are using stock 9800m gt vbios, despite the missing 32 shaders since the core is actually based off the 8800 gts. no problem!

I think they can be the judge of how dangerous vbios flashing is. Ive got 1 positive feedback so far. I'm really not trying to flaunt this around! I just want to prove its not at all that dangerous...

 

it's up to him what he want's do to in the end

but still, why not just OC the vbios already in the card to the clock speeds of the GTX285M, rather than finding a GTX285M vbios?

 

Ahoy Mateys! What if ye flash em 280M (MXM2.1) to 285M? Beware of the Sea Devil!

 

I just used the Nvidia sytem software to overclock the clocks and am happy with it. Anyway I was being specific about the performance difference than the name. Anyway I got it. Thanks for your replies.

 

errrrrmm..

 

No need to flash, just inrease the voltage in Nbitior and overclock

 

I've never seen a 285m that came as an mxm 2.1 card.

So you would be trying to flash the vbios from an mxm 3.0 card to a 2.1 card.

I don't know if anyone has tried that, there is a chance it will work, but I wouldn't try it.

But the OP should try the 285m vbios