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Why AMD motherboards now come with bigger BIOS chips—and why it matters to you
We take a quick look at the evolution of BIOS chip capacities on AMD motherboards over the years.
Did Santa give you an AMD Radeon HD 6950 this year? Good news: he actually gave you a 6970! It turns out that with a few clicks of your mouse you can unlock your 6950 so that it runs at 6970 speeds.
Who doesn't love getting a little bit more than what they paid for? If you're a Radeon RX 480 owner, you might just be able to experience such a gift, as it's been discovered that a simple BIOS flash ...
AMD graphics cards are no stranger to BIOS modifications to “unlock” previously unsupported functionality. Back in April, we reported of enthusiasts flashing Radeon RX 480 GPUs with the BIOS from the ...
User der8auer has posted a guide in which he was able to unlock some of the AMD's RX 460 features with a BIOS update. The shaders are defaulted at 896 shaders / 56 TMUs but got unlockied to of 1024 ...
If you recently bought an AMD Radeon RX 480 or 470, only to now be feeling pangs of RX 500 series envy, you might be able apply a DIY solution. There are reports by several TechPowerUp forum members ...
I have bought a AMD Phenom II x4 965 CPU, and in the next month or so I am gonna get a ASUS M4A87TD EVO AM3 AMD 870 motherboard to put it into (along with some other "stuff" of course). I looked at ...
In a nutshell: GPU BIOS modding was once a popular hobby among PC enthusiasts, but vendors have since cracked down on the practice, making it nearly impossible to make significant changes to graphics ...
It's possible that upgrade won't work perfectly in the longer run. If the rest of the circuitry and cooling systems aren't able to handle the increase in performance then the card's life might end up ...
AMD claims it has a fix for the Ryzen boost that will roll out soon in a BIOS update. Since launching in July, Ryzen owners have discovered that many CPUs don’t reach their max boost clock speed. But ...
There were reports over the weekend of AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB graphics cards coming equipped with 8GB of GDDR5 RAM installed. However the BIOS used by these '4GB' cards only allowed access to half of ...
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