Gateway 5850 Bios unlock?

[Frendizi]

I just bought two Gateway Acer 5850's on ebay for a pretty good price. I'd really like to unlock the extra shaders by flashing the bios to a 5870 bios to reap the extra megahashes. Does anyone know if there is a premade bios I can use? All the tutorials I've seen online seem to only cover boards made by MSI and Asus. I know some non-reference designs are laser cut so doing this would be impossible, but its worth a shot. Here's the card for reference: http://www.ascendtech.us/gateway-acer-radeon-hd5850-1gb-ddr5-pcie_i_vc1gbvgapc58501.aspx  Thanks

[regular]

I'm sure that only 6850s have the possibility of being unlocked.  5850 bios mods just let you modify clockspeeds and voltages beyond stock in MSI afterburner.

[crazyates]

It was my impression that the only advantage to flashing a 5850 to a 5870 bios was unlocking higher clock speeds, back when OCing these above 775 was a pain. However, CGMiner can set any clock speed and voltage in windows or linux, so at this point there's not need to flash anymore.

[TheHarbinger]

[bulanula]

No, we can always use a lower difficulty as a result of the stupid tax !

[Frendizi]

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Ok thanks for the info haha. I'll post the results from the card on the hardware comparison so others know if its a decent card to buy

[Aseras]

You can't unlock shaders. You can't change the clocks or memory without a bsod in windows. You can use a 5870 flash to get higher clocks if the card can handle it. There's a risk to brick the card and you'll need another card to flash from dos.

You can use rbe to edit the voltage registers to get a higher default voltage and use cgminer or afterburner to overclock.