Bios Flashing GF 5900XT..Possible?

[kirkshairpiece]

Hi Guys/Gals

I heard rumours that you can flash the bios of FX cards to make them faster/think they are a better card? Is this possible? I am getting a AOpen Gforce FX 5900XT later today and wondered whether I can overclock it a bit..... I know you can you use CoolBits to increase the memory and GPU clock... what would flashing the BIOS achieve?

Any help welcome...

Kirk

[Scott Tiger]

Dumb question: What's a 5900XT?

I thought ATi used 'XT' and NVidia used the 'Ultra' moniker.

Sorry if that sounded off-topic.

[kirkshairpiece]

It's there new cut down 5900 model... slower memory and core GPU speed...

Same price as a 5700U but faster it seems (being 256 Bit and have 8 pipelines.. or is it 4? Anyway twice as many as the 5700U....

[Scott Tiger]

BAH! ATi's name scheme was bad enough. Now that NVidia's using some of the ATi nomenclature it's only going to get worse!

Thanks for the info. Sorry I can't be of any help to you though.