Unlocking HD5850?

[Smartidiot89]

Just been in touch with a store a few miles from here which guaranteed they will hide a HD5850 for me to buy since I need it quite urgently for reviews and stuff.

But I wonder if I can buy any HD5850 following the reference design and use a say ASUS HD5850 BIOS to flash it, thus "unlocking" the card so that I can use ASUS VoltageTweaker, or can I simply get whichever card I want and use MSI Afterburner without bothering with BIOS flashing?

[zalbard]

Just get any card.
You'll have to flash anyway, though, to remove OC limits.
And just use AfterBurner. It totally owns Asus' utility.

[Smartidiot89]

Just get any card.
You'll have to flash anyway, though, to remove OC limits.
And just use AfterBurner. It totally owns Asus' utility.
Cool thanks:up:

How exactly do I flash the HD5000-series?

[flopper]

Cool thanks:up:

How exactly do I flash the HD5000-series?

load usb stick make it dos able ie win98.
put atiflash and the bios there.
flash from usb stick in dos.

always use the newest programs to flash btw.
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1650/ATIFlash_3.75.html

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=236301

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=15021144&postcount=1

there, should keep u busy :)

[Smartidiot89]

Screw it, I found 1 single card in stock which just happened to be and ASUS. I was quick to click the buy button :cool:

Getting that sexy beast out of the postal office tomorrow :hump: This is like twice as much money as I've EVER spent on a silly graphicscard :D

[Tomasis]

Screw it, I found 1 single card in stock which just happened to be and ASUS. I was quick to click the buy button :cool:

Getting that sexy beast out of the postal office tomorrow :hump: This is like twice as much money as I've EVER spent on a silly graphicscard :D

hehe what store?

im going for 5850.. but it is many many weeks away ..:rolleyes: