So now is 2017, any news about a Pascal Bios Editor?
Really want to raise the TDP on my titan.
Really want to raise the TDP on my titan.
Volta to Gaming GPUs wont Come before 2018.Originally Posted by Laithan
Volta is coming this year (rumors have it)... Makes sense... dump the 1080Ti and wrap up Pascal... don't look back... end of the year drop VOLTA....
Fingers crossed that NVIDIA understands that:
(1) They didn't make any MORE money because they locked/encrypted the BIOS with Pascal.. If anything they used it against us within marketing but modding a BIOS is AFTER they have our money.. what do they care!??
(2) MODing the BIOS (at least for Maxwell) didn't damage the cards or increase RMAs... they were gimped and we're just removing the artificial bottlenecks not HARD-modding... I've never heard of anyone damaging a GPU unless they quite honestly just didn't know what they were doing... the numbers were minuscule compared to the entire overclocking and modding community.
(3) They ABSOLUTELY made LESS money from encrypting the BIOS... even if I'm the only person in the world (and I know I'm not) that specifically did not buy PASCAL because of the inability to MOD THE BIOS (we don't need gimped cards...) they still lost my money. For just Maxwell I had (2) 980's in SLI and then bought (2) 980Ti's in SLI... I would consider myself a good customer that was lost this round.
(4) They lost a lot of green team fans in the community. It's VERY safe to say that MANY MANY people were upset/disappointed about the decision to encrypt the BIOS. It would be one thing if the cards are not gimped with the STOCK BIOS but they are.... mostly starved for power... inconsistent clock speeds... constant throttling when temps are not even high. People are now CROSS-FLASHING BIOS' from other vendors taking big risks just trying to work around artificial constraints.
Not holding my breath for Volta... but they do have a chance to redeem themselves.....
Let's do the Time Warp again!Volta to Gaming GPUs wont Come before 2018.
TI Will Come at PAST EAST.
do u have any clue on what language the bios is based on? i can try to learn it and make an editor.Originally Posted by Laithan
It's too bad.... Maxwell benefits greatly from a MOD BIOS and Pascal is really just Maxwell with a die shrink for the most part... I suspect without the power and voltage constraints we might see 2,300Mhz boost speed possibly even higher... The 1080Ti with a MOD BIOS (and a 8+8 design) would be a monster... Apparently the BIOS is NOT encrypted... but nobody has taken the time to map it all out and make an editor... then we need to figure out how to flash it..
One of the biggest benefits of the community is things like this to help each other tweak and gain free performance... but none of it does anyone any good if everyone always thinks someone else is going to do it. Easy for me to say but if I knew how I really would work on it..
Fingers cross the right talent will take the challenge
Bravo to you.. I do not... I only know that some have found some info
If we build it, they will come
Yes. If you were to take the bios itself and look at it, it would be machine language. That is, it would be raw binary, and you would have to divide it up into bytes and then be comfortable enough with both assembly and the chip's instruction set to interpret what is going on. A decompiler of sorts might be able to help with that.
The technology exists to sign new BIOS'.... the STOCK BIOS' had to be signed and that's what we need.. Technically we just need the tool/process that the vendors user (unless NVIDIA keeps it in-house, then in that case we need it from them...).Originally Posted by Asmodian
This isn't even the issue though. It would already be done if understanding the binary was all it took.
Sadly it is encrypted, it will not flash a bios which hasn't been properly signed with a public/private key concept. This means that to understand it you first have to decrypt it, modify it, and then have the key to be able to re-encrypt it correctly.
I suspect bypassing is what MacVidCards is doing? i.e. programming the BIOS directly onto the chip? Is what validates the signature just the flasher program? If so that's the easy way to bypass it right there...Originally Posted by Laithan
The technology exists to sign new BIOS'.... the STOCK BIOS' had to be signed and that's what we need.. Technically we just need the tool/process that the vendors user (unless NVIDIA keeps it in-house, then in that case we need it from them...).
Someone needs to just accidentally let it fall of the back of the truck
(or bypass the whole thing completely...)