clgrimm
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.

Yeah - I feel that too.  But at least I got an original FTW that easily meets its specs and exceeds it without breaking a sweat.  As usual I have to buy something right when I want it instead of waiting to see what else is coming down the pike.  But then, if I lived by that mantra I'd never get any new cool things!!! Unfortunately it does mean that I'll need to try to sell my original FTW that already has a significantly reduced worth to get one of "them-thar" new-fangled FTW3 video cards!!!!

imweasel

clgrimm
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.

Yeah - I feel that too.  But at least I got an original FTW that easily meets its specs and exceeds it without breaking a sweat.  As usual I have to buy something right when I want it instead of waiting to see what else is coming down the pike.  But then, if I lived by that mantra I'd never get any new cool things!!! Unfortunately it does mean that I'll need to try to sell my original FTW that already has a significantly reduced worth to get one of "them-thar" new-fangled FTW3 video cards!!!!

yours cant meet the oc potential of the new 1080 with 11gpbs 1.35v chip.
yours overclocked level=new 1080 stock level, new one can further oc to 12gpbs or even higher.
 

evgauser28764

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

 
I didnt need any special modded version of nvflash to flash my 1080 just "nvflash -6 name.rom" and from what everyone has been posting all 1080s still have 10gpbs memory just overclocked.  Its kinda wierd some of us was able to crossflash with the evga flasher no problems while others cant maybe they updated the flasher.

bal3wolf

evgauser28764

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

 
I didnt need any special modded version of nvflash to flash my 1080 just "nvflash -6 name.rom" and from what everyone has been posting all 1080s still have 10gpbs memory just overclocked.

Yeah. I have no problem manually flashing a bios but I can't do it if the rom isn't available. Has anyone been able to get the rom or figure out a way to get it out of the exe? I tried extracting with 7zip and it's not there (that I can see).

evgauser28764

imweasel
Yeah - I feel that too.  But at least I got an original FTW that easily meets its specs and exceeds it without breaking a sweat.  As usual I have to buy something right when I want it instead of waiting to see what else is coming down the pike.  But then, if I lived by that mantra I'd never get any new cool things!!! Unfortunately it does mean that I'll need to try to sell my original FTW that already has a significantly reduced worth to get one of "them-thar" new-fangled FTW3 video cards!!!!

yours cant meet the oc potential of the new 1080 with 11gpbs 1.35v chip.
yours overclocked level=new 1080 stock level, new one can further oc to 12gpbs or even higher.

I already know that, which is why I'd need to sell my 2 dusty 980 SC's and be ready to sell my 1090 ACX 3.0 to get one of the new cards.

I uploaded the bios that worked on my 1080 FTW hydro copper to techpowerup.
 
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/191610/191610

bal3wolf
I uploaded the bios that worked on my 1080 FTW hydro copper to techpowerup.
 

Bal, you are very much the man!   I'll try flashing that tonight and report back the results.

Timings are different, couldn't find the voltage table.
 
I'm so torn on this, either it's a nice bonus for customers or it's the easy way out on evga's part.  

cloiselle1
Timings are different, couldn't find the voltage table.
 
I'm so torn on this, either it's a nice bonus for customers or it's the easy way out on evga's part.  

I figured timings had changed because this bios gives me higher perf then just overclocking to 11ghz on my old bios.

getting a EVGA GTX 1080 FTW2 later today cant wait to flex its muscle lol went with the Gigabyte GTX1080 xtreme gaming water force WB which was a great card but crappy WB had stress cracks in it and all of their replacement cards where the same or worse. Then tried the Gigabyte GTX 1080 TI Gaming OC which was a heater and a half nothing calmed it down. Prior to that I was rocking sli'd Titan X (maxwells) ECGA Hydro Coppers never should of went away from EVGA their stuff is and always has been upper echelon stuff. At least if this  cards to warm there is a WB available for it already.
 
 
 
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