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unlocking a 7900gs??

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sorry if this has been asked before but on this pic of rivatuner,it will let me select the pipes to unlock.i've read a few forums about this and mostly they are blanked off or it wont allow it.

on this pic,i have set them to on so you can see at the top 24 pipes.shall i click ok and try it or will it fubar the card?.

 

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It wont work, so dont even try.

nVidia isnt stupid. If it could unlock their 7900 GT would be useless, and it's their highest selling card except the 7600 GT.
 

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U can't unlock 7900GS

U can read some more on VR-Zone
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3946&s=1

P.S. U can try to volt-mod it, they say it can be done the same way as on 7900GT
 
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I tried on my GS with no luck.. :(
 

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Highly unlikely the GS is unlockable, it uses the fubar'd 7900GT cores.
 

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Thats why its a cheaper card
 

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It does bro, no lie man, i did it, I have a BFG 7900GS OC 256mb,,, I unlocked it man!! I used Rivatuner bro, It now reads Def(20pp,7vp); Cur(24pp,8vp);Tgt(24pp,8vp).

I took a leap of faith and it worked from me brother, I guess i got a an undamged/fUBAR GPU on my card..... I kid yall not, I have nothing to gain from this other then that i saved about 150.00 dollars.
 
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It does bro, no lie man, i did it, I have a BFG 7900GS OC 256mb,,, I unlocked it man!! I used Rivatuner bro, It now reads Def(20pp,7vp); Cur(24pp,8vp);Tgt(24pp,8vp).

I took a leap of faith and it worked from me brother, I guess i got a an undamged/fUBAR GPU on my card..... I kid yall not, I have nothing to gain from this other then that i saved about 150.00 dollars.
Post a Screen shot dude :toast:
 
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post a shot like mine above,even when i turned the locked ones on it still says disabled in the state column.
 

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post ss of Riva tuner and 3DM06 result with locked/unlocked card @ same GPU/mem clock
 

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unlocked BFG7900 gs oc

Sorry for the long wait
 
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Galaxy GF7900GS 256MB Zalman - no luck to unlock it. ForceWare ver. 93.71, Riva Tuner ver. 2.0 RC162.
 
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Mandoman, Inteleron. Can you guys give exact specs of your cards, upload your BIOS and perhaps make some high res photos of your cards? (preferably without cooler)

Would be interesting if we can find the difference.
 

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@Inteleron
@MandoMan
please guys help us find "the trick" unlocking our 7900gs. :respect:

it would be great if you could post your "graphics subsystem diagnostic report" from rivatuner!

please choose following in rivatuner's report:

1.Display adapter information
2.Display adapter PCI configuration space
3.NVIDIA specific display adapter information
4.NVIDIA VGA BIOS information
5.NVIDIA graphics processor registers

just copy and paste the whole info here. thanks!

please also attach your bios here!
it's very easy to do that:
download "nibitor" version 3.0a here:
http://www.mvktech.net/index.php?option=com_remository&func=fileinfo&filecatid=1778

start it, go to tools -> read bios -> select device.
thereafter go to tools -> read bios -> read into file.

thanks a lot! :toast:
 

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looking forward to more info , thx guys.
 

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I will try to get this info up ASAP :) Just also wanted to add that i now have two BFG7900GS OC cards running in "SLI mode" and both have been unlocked, So from what i can tell is that BFG chose to go with the reference (Nvidia Spec) design of the card, How ever so has the company "Galaxy" but as R 1 stated in his message he was not able to unlock his. So it could be that BFG mabe stuck to Ref design and unlocking the card may be related to their bios configuration.

Dont realy know, but i will try to get the info ASAP as requested.
 
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It would be great if a bios-mod would help unlocking. This would be probalby a job for the guys from mvktech.net. That's why I requested your bios. Rivatuner's infomations are also very nice to have.

What do you do now with that 48 pipes ? :)
 

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I set the bits on my bfg 7900 gs oc to enable

but after I rebooted, the main screen still showed 20 pipes enabled
 

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Unlock 7900Gs ?

U cant unlock 7900GS.

Everything what u did is change one option in rivatuner - and rivatuner will show 24p8v, but performance wont change - just check 3dmark or sth... Is the same story like 7800GT > 7800GTX
 

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@hajper
as idagon said, rivatuner will show 20p anyway. If rivatuner shows 24p then "something" must happen. Anyway, you may be right with the performance. It would be interesting if the two guys (Mandoman and Inteleron) would benchmark their cards for exempl. with 3dmark 2005 vertex bench's but it seems they are not interested to provide us any further information :ohwell:
sad :shadedshu
 

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it seems bfg uses GT chips and then removes pipes with the bios :ohwell: it meens there's actually no mod to remove the lock of a "real" GS chip...
 
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