evgauser28764

mstcobra
No luck here on my original FTW. The flasher doesn't view it as an applicable card, so it doesn't give the option to proceed.

davidtanti

 
I can confirm this new bios does not work on the EVGA FTW GTX 1080 card.  When I tried to flash it, I got incompatable device error and the process then stoped with no harm done to the card.  I don't see how anyone is saying they flashed any of the original EVGA 1080 cards with one of these bios's.
 
BTW, I have my memory overclocked already so that its completely stable at 11,112.  Higher than the new bios will allow.  I'd suggest just overclocking the memory if you really want the performance gains the new bios could offer.
 
 

no offense but how did you flash it? by the evga official tool? 

i wonder why some of us can flash it and others cant i can dump the rom with gpuz just dont know if im allowed to, might be up to what bios you tried to flash also.

As 1080 FTW edition owner, I demand a bios that fits for this card. I have the pads applied on my memory, I think deserve bios for this card.

itay.engel
As 1080 FTW edition owner, I demand a bios that fits for this card. I have the pads applied on my memory, I think deserve bios for this card.

If the original cards could support it, I'm sure they would have a bios out for it.
More than likely, the early RAM modules can't support the higher speeds. Even the current iCX cards aren't guaranteed to run at 11Ghz memory speeds.

ipkha

itay.engel
As 1080 FTW edition owner, I demand a bios that fits for this card. I have the pads applied on my memory, I think deserve bios for this card.

If the original cards could support it, I'm sure they would have a bios out for it.
More than likely, the early RAM modules can't support the higher speeds. Even the current iCX cards aren't guaranteed to run at 11Ghz memory speeds.

The early RAM modules and the current RAM modules for the GTX 1080 are the same. 
 
I guess they are just afraid of a massive RMA's of failing cards for these who will update bios brainlessly without applying the thermal pads. well, they can add a warning notice next to the bios update about the pads. I really want this, As a customer I think I deserve it. if not, this is a real shame for EVGA. 

Looks like original early 1080 FTW owners have been given the short end of the stick again...This really leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

ill take free performance

Classy owners got the short end of the stick too. Don't get me wrong, it's totally awesome that EVGA is doing this. It's not very often or even ever that an AIB offers a free performance upgrade to exiting hardware and to make it so easy nonetheless. I just wish they would spread the joy to all cards with the same ICs since it doesn't seem to be a limitation of the chips. Heck, these are all dual bios cards, so there is literally no risk. All they would have to do is say that there is no guarantee of stability with the new bios, which they already kinda did say.

mstcobra
Classy owners got the short end of the stick too. Don't get me wrong, it's totally awesome that EVGA is doing this. It's not very often or even ever that an AIB offers a free performance upgrade to exiting hardware and to make it so easy nonetheless. I just wish they would spread the joy to all cards with the same ICs since it doesn't seem to be a limitation of the chips. Heck, these are all dual bios cards, so there is literally no risk. All they would have to do is say that there is no guarantee of stability with the new bios, which they already kinda did say.

the past icx upgrade programme benefits classified users at all...

bal3wolf

evgauser28764

mstcobra
No luck here on my original FTW. The flasher doesn't view it as an applicable card, so it doesn't give the option to proceed.

davidtanti

 
I can confirm this new bios does not work on the EVGA FTW GTX 1080 card.  When I tried to flash it, I got incompatable device error and the process then stoped with no harm done to the card.  I don't see how anyone is saying they flashed any of the original EVGA 1080 cards with one of these bios's.
 
BTW, I have my memory overclocked already so that its completely stable at 11,112.  Higher than the new bios will allow.  I'd suggest just overclocking the memory if you really want the performance gains the new bios could offer.
 
 

no offense but how did you flash it? by the evga official tool? 

i wonder why some of us can flash it and others cant i can dump the rom with gpuz just dont know if im allowed to, might be up to what bios you tried to flash also.

just upload it to techpowerup by gpuz.
 
 

mstcobra
Yeah, that's what I tried. I even tried extracting the exe to see if there was a hidden .rom in there but no luck. I also tried HxD but no HW IDs in there that I could see to edit and the .rom isn't on the techpowerup vbios database yet.
 
If you have a secret, please share with the rest of the class!

on overclock.net forum, cross flashing pascal bios has been discussing for so long.
you have to use some special modded version of nvflash to flash pascal bios. of course the evga official tool wont allow you to cross flash bios... 
 
but i dont recommend doing this as probably on icx cards the vram is "d9vrl" 11gbps 1.35v chip rather than old acx cards with "d9txs" 10gpbs 1.35v chip.
by the voltage suggested, you shall understand why only icx cards has this bios update.
 
otherwise, the second handed prices of the acx cards are killed further