Some AMD Radeon RX 9070 GPUs Can Be Flashed with XT Firmware, Bringing up to 15%–20% Performance Improvements

I remember flashing the HD6700 to a HD6900. seemed it allowed an increase in VCore and boosted the clocks a little. Never liked to do it for fear of bricking the card and at that point in time it was a little bit complicated. I think I did one card and called it a day. Given the cost and rarity of cards at this point, Id think twice anyway.
 
Didn't that happen with the 9500 to 9700 Pro some years back? 9000 series struck gold for us again!
 
Wasn't it an athelon or no it was an intel where if you had a graphite pencil you could trace between two pins to enable more features on that CPU. Ahhh the good ole days of tech wild west.

Google says it was on old thunderbird processors where you could enable further mhz headroom from 800mhz to 1 ghz with the 'pencil' trick. ;)

Found that on a 24 year old toms hardware post so I KNOW there were tricks before that in the 90's.
 
Grimlakin said:
Wasn't it an athelon or no it was an intel where if you had a graphite pencil you could trace between two pins to enable more features on that CPU. Ahhh the good ole days of tech wild west.

Google says it was on old thunderbird processors where you could enable further mhz headroom from 800mhz to 1 ghz with the 'pencil' trick. ;)

Found that on a 24 year old toms hardware post so I KNOW there were tricks before that in the 90's.
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Yup I did that too. Easy 800 to 1000 bump

I did have an old ATI card that I bios flashed like 20+ years ago.... 8000 or 8500 maybe? It worked but when it got hot/overworked I got checkerboard pattern on the screen. I had to ziptie a spare 80mm case fan to it to keep it cool
 
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