Flash 6800 to 6800GT (pci express)

[leo_m83]

Hey guys!



Is there anyway to flash the nvidia 6800 256mb pci express card to 6800GT in order to open the 4 masked pipelines? is there any way at all to open the 4 maked pipelines?


thanks guys

v // leo

[Kunaak]

no you can't flash a 6800 with a GT bios.

the 6800 uses DDR1, the GT uses DDR3, all that happens is the screen goes nuts, if it works at all. I did it with my 6800's in the past. not a good idea, useless.

only way to unlock a 6800 is with rivatuner, or some heavy bios modding of the actual bios itself. which if your not familiar with a hex editor, it's not a good idea.

[leo_m83]

well..how can u unlock them to get all the 16piplines? there must be a way to do this?


// leo

[Kunaak]

rivatuner, or some heavy bios modding of the actual bios itself.

[leo_m83]

but i tought the pci express 6800 had no masked pipelines?

// leo

[Kunaak]

yep, just did alittle homework.

seems the PCI EX version of the 6800 NU has no hidden pipelines. it's physically only got 12 pipelines. you can't make this a 16P card any more then you could a mod a 9800 pro to be a 12 pipeline card....

atleast, according to the guys at guru3d.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?threadid=123620

[leo_m83]

Dammet

[Mavke]

Are you guys sure of this? That it doesn't have locked/hidden pipelines? And where did you get proove? I am interested cause I saw already some goes flashing their GeForce 6800 PCI-E to the GeForce 6800 GT PCI-E...

[Mavke]

Dammet
If you can provide me yoru Original BIOS I can check if the BIOS has locked pipelines. As around 75% of all AGP 6800's have that...
NVIDIA GeForce BIOS Backup Guide (http://www.mvktech.net/content/view/14/37)
And then just mail it to me and I will check it out...
mavke@mvktech.net (mailto:mavke@mvktech.net)...

[leo_m83]

oki...ill do that man :)..kind of u to help :)

// leo

[Mavke]

oki...ill do that man :)..kind of u to help :)

// leo
Well we help each other basically...
I collect GeForce BIOS's on my site and well I also know how to look at them. So if you provide oen at least I can take a look and give some feedback. :-)

[alexio]

I didn't know the PCI-Express 6800NU uses the NV41 instead of the NV40, I tought it would have taken longer before the NV41 was released.

[Mavke]

Well no the PCI-E now used the NV41 (6800) and the NV45 (GT/Ultra)...