Post Tagged with: "BIOS"

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Can Be Flashed To GeForce GTX 770

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Can Be Flashed To GeForce GTX 770

As many of you know NVIDIA will be releasing the GeForce GTX 770 graphics card towards the end of the this month. Now there is some new information out that you will be able to flash older GeForce GTX 680 cards with a new BIOS and turn them into GeForce GTX 770 cards. We have heard that the GTX 770 would be using a new chip, the GK104-425 A2, but what if it was just a GeForce GTX 680 in disguise?

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Gigabyte Reveals High-Resolution UEFI For Haswell Motherboards

Gigabyte Reveals High-Resolution UEFI For Haswell Motherboards

Motherboard BIOS’s have really come a long way in the past few years with the introduction of the UEFI graphical interface BIOS. This allows for a very nice graphical user interface for your BIOS and also allows you to use both your keyboard and mouse for easy navigation. It looks like things are going to get even better with Haswell motherboards. Gigabyte has revealed their latest UEFI BIOS design and it uses a full 1080p resolution!

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Intel Ivy Bridge Overclocking Guide

Intel Ivy Bridge Overclocking Guide

So you’ve picked up a Intel Z77 board and an Ivy Bridge unlocked CPU and you want to know how to make your CPU perform better.  In this guide I’ll be detailing how to overclock your CPU with both offset and fixed voltage methods, along with ideal board/BIOS parameters for your new clock to remain stable.  So are you ready to overclock? Let’s go!

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How to Flash (Update) Your Motherboard’s System BIOS

How to Flash (Update) Your Motherboard’s System BIOS

Recently Bob did an article on finding out the model of your motherboard. Since you usually find out the version of your board’s BIOS at the same time, I thought that an article on updating, or flashing, your BIOS would be a good idea. There were numerous articles on the subject back when I first got into building, and all of them involved a 3.5” floppy drive. Today, nearly all motherboards have multiple options for flashing the BIOS, and normally a floppy isn’t required.

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