graphics @ bios

[airsoftman687]

hey everyone i just got like a pretty much whole new compter and i was wondering how to tweek the settings on my xfx gefore 7900 and how to get new bios for the fricking loud fans on it

[Gunny04]

Bootable floppy, New bios on the bootable floppy, a few instructions I forgot labout..... you have saved your old Bios to the floppy and installed the new.... But I doubt a bios will help with the fan unless its not registering proper heat! Cheers Gunny

[ctjoyce]

The 7 Series fans are loud at full rev, deal with it. Only fix is tweaking through RivaTuner, or putting a Zalman on it. A motherboard, or GPU flash will do nothing.

Cheers
Cameron

[cheesegrater]

The stock fans just plain suck.

[Bindoe]

You can manually control fan speeds with rivatuner, if you reduce speed it will fry the card so I don't recommend it.

[Gunny04]

Or just buy a zalman..... Cheers, Gunny (A copper Zalman!)

[airsoftman687]

no i heard someone got bios or something for the geforce 7900 gt and it quieted the fan down but i wanna know how to make my graphics card look better on the computer, for some reason it looks worse than my old one

[Gunny04]

well I wouldnt change out a bios for that (risk frying the card) but to make it look better? hmmm try this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835118117 and it can help the cooling aspect a bit Cheers, Gunny

[ctjoyce]

no i heard someone got bios or something for the geforce 7900 gt and it quieted the fan down but i wanna know how to make my graphics card look better on the computer, for some reason it looks worse than my old one

What was your old card. I think theres user error here, not a BIOS issue. And all a BIOS flash would do is reset your fan controol. He probibly jacked it up in RivaTuner and forgot about it.

Cheers
Cameron

[airsoftman687]

no sorry everyone i just had my screen resolution at the wrong size but , wow you should see Battlefield 2 with my new graphics card, and its only on medium settings right now! , and no lag at all but ya is that zalman fan quiter than the stock fan u think and would i have to take off the old fan and heaksink???

[Gunny04]

Yep, take off the stock heatsink, see if it has any paste on it (I think GPUs have some type of thermal paste) Apply if needed, and Stick new fan on, since all GPU heatsinks have usually the same screw holes, all you need is a bracket (Comes with fan) and two screws (Also comes with fan) and plug the fan into the graphics card/Power supply or Motherboard/PSU.... (I think) Cheers, Gunny

[ctjoyce]

but ya is that zalman fan quiter than the stock fan u think and would i have to take off the old fan and heaksink???

Well Zalmans are the quietest active aircooling systems on the market, and yes you will have to take off your old sink to put on a new heatsink.

As for BF2....You have a $250 card....crank those settings, your wasting resources

Cheers
Cameron