When selling your GPUs, do you leave the modded BIOS or revert to the original?

FP91G

legendary

Activity: 1820

Merit: 1121

Quote from: Skinny48 on May 16, 2021, 04:58:31 AM

I once bought a bios modded GPU before and it works pretty well, it's HD6970 years ago and this GPU has BIOS switch onboard but I've tried the switch to see performance difference and I stil find myself going back to the modded bios because it works better for me in gaming and other things

You definitely don't play modern games

Great, games are evil.

Skinny48

member

Activity: 448

Merit: 18

I once bought a bios modded GPU before and it works pretty well, it's HD6970 years ago and this GPU has BIOS switch onboard but I've tried the switch to see performance difference and I stil find myself going back to the modded bios because it works better for me in gaming and other things

FP91G

legendary

Activity: 1820

Merit: 1121

Quote from: dgreen2 on May 13, 2021, 04:28:49 AM

buyers may be gamers who aren't into mining...
What do you think is the best to do?

It depends on the buyer to whom you sell your graphics cards.
If the buyer takes 1 video card, then I install the original BIOS for him. I try to keep all the original BIOSes of the video cards. If you sell video cards in batches of 5-10 pcs, then your buyer is a miner who does not need an original BIOS.
It is important to install the original BIOS when you contact the warranty service

adaseb

legendary

Activity: 3808

Merit: 1723

You should put the original bios back in there. If you never took a backup go to vga bios databse (google it) and download your bios from there. The reason why is that an unsigned bios won't load properly after the drivers are installed, they will get the Code 42 error and then call you up and demand a refund.

You will have to guide them how to flash the bios and most people probably won't know how to do it or they will do it incorrectly and brick the card and you will have a headache. So to avoid these issues always remember to flash back the original bios.

Also when you make a backup, label it with the serial # for that particular card, since the same GPU could have different revisions and different memory chips which means the bios is different.

tg88

legendary

Activity: 2492

Merit: 1429

Payment Gateway Allows Recurring Payments

I always write the original BIOS again, if the buyer is a gamer he will be satisfied and if he is a miner he will know how to rewrite the BIOS and it won't be a problem either. It takes more work, but that's what I do.

Refrumatrix

member

Activity: 301

Merit: 13

$CYBERCASH METAVERSE

Does it matter? I've bought a card in AliExpress before and the bios was modded, I found this out because the card was behaving unstable so I flashed back a bios and it works better, all the buyers cares about is getting a working card, no one cares if it's modded or not

mak013

hero member

Activity: 2548

Merit: 769

It does not matter. I`m doing as buyer wants. If you are telling that GPUs used for gaming - the better way to flash original BIOS. I always sell GPUs as "after mining" and don`t flash it. For all the time just twice GPUs bought for gaming and flashed BIOS wasn`t a problem.
My decision is to ask a buyer what he want.

dgreen2

newbie

Activity: 17

Merit: 0

buyers may be gamers who aren't into mining...
What do you think is the best to do?

Topic: When selling your GPUs, do you leave the modded BIOS or revert to the original? (Read 155 times)