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    Possible to flash a 8800gts?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mechrock, Jul 18, 2009.

  1. mechrock

    mechrock Notebook Evangelist

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    Is it possible to flash a 8800gts up to something higher. My temps are fine right now. They are staying in the 60s after half hour gaming. Low 70s when my room gets really hot.
     
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    Hmm, I'm not sure if this is a good idea, it might lead to trouble...
     
    mujtaba, Jul 18, 2009
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    Cannot be done, when I tried to flash my 8800m GTS to a GTX it would not let me touch the BIOS, it is shadowed, same exact laptop so it should be the same for yours.

    And hypothetically it is possible, but the other 32 or so shader pipeline may just be cut, so nothing would be gained by this.

    I even had a Phoenix BIOS editor and tried to swap the BIOS from in there with no success either.
     
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    mechrock Notebook Evangelist

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    So not even a 9800m gts?
     
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    no flashing at all, you can try to OC it to those speeds I guess, cause thats all the 9800m GTS is, an over-clocked 8800m GTS.
     
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    Oh well I wanted to flash it to get a higher voltage so I could overclock higher a little more stable.
     
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    Yea I guess they are not totally the same but essentially they are, too bad Gateway hard-locked the crap out of these systems, I see no reason why that had to be done.
     
    narsnail, Jul 18, 2009
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