and welcome back to WCC f tech lab guys
and this is keep again and today we're
going to have a little bit of fun with
showing you guys how we took our ready
on our X 484 gigabyte on up to a Radeon
rx 8 gigabyte now it's pretty simple
actually
now that techpowerup has updated their
ATI when the ATI flash 2 22.7 4 with
polaris support so that you can say back
up your your BIOS file and then well
change it to a different BIOS if you
wanted to now before we get into this I
just want to make it very clear that
this isn't something that is going to
always work and it's not something that
you should just rush out and do unless
you know what you're doing this should
be something you're familiar with I've
done this quite a bit in the past with
other cards a lot of times I'll take a
factory overclocked card and put a
reference BIOS on it to see the
performance variations between a the
default and the overclock but first off
you're going to need this this is the
ATI flash 2.74 then we'll put links to
that in the description below now this
is also gpu-z and you'll need it to
monitor the card that you're using as
far as the specifically for us here the
memory size you can see all the other
things all the other settings with it as
far as then bust with bandwidth memory
speed capacity yadda yadda and you can
use this to monitor the usage of each
being the core the memory clock the
temperature all of that stuff you so
you'll need it to basically make sure
that it well it worked then you're going
to need a BIOS that you're going to use
luckily the guys over at overclock net a
newcomer actually joined yesterday the
night by the name of Hiromi or para me
he actually posted the XFX our X 480 OC
Edition and why that's important is
because ours is an XFX model and over on
the tech power
if you go to their database they have
the are X 480 listed but I got the
review sample update and it wouldn't
work on mine because mine's an X FX
model the sub vendor blocked it from
other vendors BIOS is being put on it
which is not a bad thing as long as you
can get your hand on one the dis again
that's the Rx for a toc edition so
that's the BIOS that we went with now
this is gpu-z pulled up on here now I
have flashed it and flashed it back so
for some reason when I flashed it back
the memory state at 2,000 megahertz but
at normal runs at 1750 and there as you
can see memory size is four thousand
megabytes or four gigabytes for 40
thousand ninety six megabytes at 256 bit
and now the bed with six 256 because it
still run it 2 gigahertz so I just
wanted to show you that now one thing we
want to do real quick because I'm going
to do all of this lobs so that you can
see the whole process oh great we're
going to wait for a steam update but
what we're going to do is load up let's
see make sure I've got afterburner going
while that's loading because we want to
monitor and I want to make this as large
as we can so that you guys can see it
really good we're going to use Middle
Earth shadow of Mordor because the
resolution settings this game lets you
scale it without having to change the
resolutions because I'm on a 14 or a
1080p Nick seus view 20 for a precinct
monitor while doing this and we want to
say we got it right here this is the
number we're watching for this is the
usage for the memory all right apologize
for that guys I kicked the camera so we
had to do a cut alright so we're going
to go to the options and just to show
you guys the video is set to 200% so
it's essentially running at 3840 by 2160
and we're going to go down to Advanced
Options we got it on ultra so that we
push up the memory needed now over here
see it's 4352 megabytes alright so I
want to do real quick is just run the
benchmark and we're going to run it just
just for a few seconds so we're not
going to run through the whole thing in
sorry and make you guys watch the whole
thing what we're focusing on is memory
usage here all right so here we go
all right we're loaded into it and see
it's kind of all right so we're looking
at see I mean we're getting up to about
3,800 just around 39 hundred megabytes
and I'm using plus 50 on the power limit
so we're holding the full clock speed
the 1266 all right so enough of that
well actually I guess we're going to
watch the whole thing here we're going
to see go ahead and jot down and just
keep note of where we end up at the end
of this and we're going to see if it
actually made a difference in the
performance but what we really want to
see here is the usage again so pay
attention there and all right there we
go average of 33 minimum 15 and we'll
just take those rough numbers all right
we'll go ahead and leave this and quit
the desktop yes all right so we're out
of here and got this pulled up here
still so ok now I guess because the car
kicked in it finally got reset so it's
showing 1750 on the memory with 224 on
the mega watt on there all right now
here's what we're essentially going to
do this is ATO flash I've already
downloaded it so we're going to now this
is that's the reference the BIOS that I
downloaded that won't work but right
down here is the 8 gigabyte version file
so we're going to go ahead and run this
as administrator you try to run it
normally it will not open you have to
run it as a minister okay so this is
what you're going to get you get the
flash tool now before we get in here
you're going to want to backup the BIOS
now a lot of people want to go here and
save the BIOS from gpu-z you do not want
to do that because it's going to save
128 kilobyte file and if you try to
recover your base with that you're you
want to recover go back to your old BIOS
it's not going to work it's going to
corrupt it it's a 512 kilobytes file so
if you save it you need to do it from
here that'll save the full file that's
why I've got this one right here just to
give you a quick example so see they're
512 kilobytes so let's
go to gpu-z just to show you what will
happen so we're going to save file and
we're going to save it to the desktop as
Ella smear all right we saved it and go
to properties
it's 128 kilobyte file that'll break
your card it will leave it useless do
not under any circumstances do that
alright so load image so we knew he
saved it here the RX 484 gigabyte OC rom
go ahead and open it hit program now
it's going to say please waiting in
progress it may take more than a minute
and now it's not responding we'll give
it a second and see if it catches
go ahead and close this while it's doing
it
and there you go see sometimes it will
hang like that it'll tell you that it's
not doing anything
go ahead and just be patient wait it out
says it was a program successfully now
we have to reboot it for the system for
the changes to take effect so we're
going to go ahead and hit restart and
we're going to sit here patiently
waiting because this x99 system takes
forever to post but usually it does
pretty quick with this straight reboot
so bear with me here folks do you
alright there we go
in case anybody's wondering while this
is going on the system it's running on
as a x9 on a two from a soos with an 760
and RK at stock with 32 gigs of Corsair
Vengeance lpx ddr4 at 2,400 megahertz so
nothing crazy I'm going to go now if you
notice that flicker there that is
something really bizarre going on with
the drivers right now all you have to do
to fix that which it you shouldn't have
to I'm going to change it 144 Hertz hit
okay there it won't do it anymore
I have to do that every time I reboot
with the 480 I'm going to hope it's a
driver issue because I've talked to some
other people who have had the problem
all right
that is rivatuner telling me there's a
problem with connecting to their
database alright while it's loading up
steam in the background I'm going to go
ahead and open up CPU Z because it's
going to take 30 minutes to open and
even though this is all running off of
an SSD it's just an older SSD alright
and we go ahead and open up gpu-z boom
right here we have 8 81 92 megabytes so
it's seeing all of it now here's the
catch right now it's going to show the
memory is set to 1750 even though its
default is 2000 so that's an easy thing
to go in and fix we'll just go in to go
ahead turn that off go in to global
settings and hope what man doesn't crash
there we go
all right 1750 let's
let's take that on up to 2,000 now once
I run it it should pick all that up and
go to it and go to it naturally but
right now it's just because you've
changed so much stuff to solve where if
you reinstall the software Radeon
settings it would be fun see there now
it reads a 2000 megahertz 256 bit with
the 256 gigabytes of bandwidth all right
so all that Assad it's going to open up
the sensors here that way we can see
memory controller load memory usage
there we go
change that to max change our memory
clock max that way we can monitor all of
these we'll see how hot it gets while we
run this and we're going to do the same
test with Middle Earth shadow of Mordor
running at essentially 4k with Ultra
settings now the reason what part of the
reason I did shadow of Mordor isn't just
because the benchmark is so short but
because this is a game that when it came
out the ultra settings demanded that you
have six gigabytes or more of so this is
going to be something or a six gigabyte
video card back when the original Titan
was out so we'll go back through the
options to make sure they're set right
so fullscreen
200% 3840 by 2160 okay we'll go back and
we go to Advanced Options and again this
time you see 80 448 megabytes of it it's
recognizing all of the memory still the
same amount in the menus so what we're
going to have to do is go into the
benchmark to see if it utilizes more
than four gigs of up and already you can
see we've gone past it we're get four
creeping up quite a bit there all right
escape and here we are into the
benchmark and we have it look at that
5490 well if its flexure about
five-and-a-half gigs of memory so it's
now our minimum is still somewhere
around where it was on the low side
because it's just the power this GPU is
not made for 4k gaming but so you can
expect dips down there
that but you'll notice if you can
remember it is way smoother across the
board then it will eyes we're still
holding 1288 again plus 50 on the power
limit and then somebody's going to be
worried about my PCI Express slot but I
personally I'm not that concerned and
memory again is running at 2,000
megahertz versus the 1750 and our
average is now 35 and our minimum is 16
so that's a little bit better but we
want to go back and quit to the desktop
to make sure that according to gpu-z and
there we go 50 500 megabytes again 1288
it got up to 86 Celsius so that's it's
pretty hot
again it's flash so and a plus 50 on the
power limit so if we had not done that
it probably wouldn't have gotten nearly
as hot now again that's the 4 gigabyte
uh-oh
well you get the point flash to the 8
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