Possable to flash 6600gt to differnt bios ?

[makavien478]

Hi

Just a quick question would it be ok to flash a sparkle 6600gt with a MSI 6600gt bios both core and ram are same speeds etc on both cards ?

Thanks

[siuron]

not heard of it..
not seen anyone with that review...

[Applecrusher]

I dont see why it wouldnt be possible, but why would you do it if both are at the same speeds?

[makavien478]

because i want to use in spare pc as SLI and im sure it would need same bios on both cards ?

[Dav0s]

use forceware 80.xx an u wont have to worry about the above

[makavien478]

thankyou will give that a go

[ca-uk]

so the cards only need identical chipset? don't need to actually be the same brand/card implementation?

[shaithis]

so the cards only need identical chipset? don't need to actually be the same brand/card implementation?

With the new drivers you can mix different makes and different core/ram speeds as well.

[ca-uk]

nice.

are places going to rebenchmark sli cards at some point - if the drivers keep improving then surely we'd see some speed increases due to the software based part of the technology?

[chilled]

nice.

are places going to rebenchmark sli cards at some point - if the drivers keep improving then surely we'd see some speed increases due to the software based part of the technology?

They would in an ideal world, but taking benchies is a very time-consuming prcess, so I'd imageine most will simply use the new drivers in any new reviews and let you interpolate the results to the less common cards.