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    Flashed 9800M GT BIOS on 8800M GTX Card

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by GanGstaOne, Jan 7, 2009.

  1. hubaaa3

    hubaaa3 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I heard that the card runs cooler than and maybe there is a little performance increase :D
     
    hubaaa3, Feb 5, 2009
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  2. naticus

    naticus Notebook Deity

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    It would be no different than painting a Porsche 'red' and saying its much faster now that its not blue anymore... :rolleyes:
     
    naticus, Feb 5, 2009
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  3. GanGstaOne

    GanGstaOne Notebook Evangelist

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    i think that 9800M GT bios have better memory timings you may know that most of 8800M GTX cards have problems with memory i think that 9800M GT bios can solve this problem not sure but my cards are little more overclockable with 9800M GT and more stable in games
     
    GanGstaOne, Feb 5, 2009
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  4. AssimilatorX

    AssimilatorX Notebook Guru

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    Hello!

    Hey guys any of uu know the diff between 9800M GT and 9800M GTX i just got option to upgrade my xps m1730 with this two card from 8800M GTX

    THX
     
    AssimilatorX, Mar 5, 2009
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  5. Hirohata

    Hirohata GBF Danchou

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    Should really be in either Hardware Upgrade or Dell XPS section, but anyways~ 9800M GT = 8800M GTX so should be no significant increase in performance. Dell's just stealing your money. 9800M GTX though, I think it's a 15-30% increase in performance(?)
     
    Hirohata, Mar 5, 2009
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  6. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    Yeah it's about 15%. Since it will probably run you over $1k to upgrade to the dual GTX, it's not worth it at all.
     
    Kevin, Mar 5, 2009
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  7. RealMJtm

    RealMJtm Notebook Guru

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    Hey.
    did some1 know, what the newest 9800m gt bios is?
    or is there only the 0.18?

    thx
     
    RealMJtm, Oct 15, 2009
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  8. mjsk

    mjsk Notebook Enthusiast

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    mjsk, Feb 17, 2010
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    Johnksss, Feb 17, 2010
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  10. mjsk

    mjsk Notebook Enthusiast

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    the new bios file is an iso. when i open that there is a bootable_harddisk.img file. is this the file i am supposed to edit?
    any help would be appreciated. thanks.
     
    mjsk, Feb 17, 2010
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  11. Soviet Sunrise

    Soviet Sunrise Notebook Prophet

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    Be aware that the 8800M GTX on your M1730 is a proprietary card. It will not work with the GPU BIOS from an MXM card or any other format other than the one for download on Dell's website.
     
    Soviet Sunrise, Feb 17, 2010
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  12. Johnksss

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    why are you wanting to flash your cards for?
    i gave you those links to read up on some stuff first...before you go attempting to flash you cards.
     
    Johnksss, Feb 17, 2010
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  13. mjsk

    mjsk Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have read in other forums that you can put the 9800m GT BIOS on a 8800m GTX card on some systems. I want to do this because I am experiencing the yellow screen problem and dell did not release a fix for all cards. I have a dell xps m1730.

    I did continue this in a new thread

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=460368

    Thanks
     
    mjsk, Feb 17, 2010
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