Wow I thought for sure my bios would work. They're the same card
I was quite sure myself and was chuffed to see your upload, but I don't know, it wouldn't have any of it. Unless there are better tools than Gigabyte's @BIOS for applying GPU BIOS?
Are you using the latest version of @BIOS ? ..... BIOS size and mis-match was one of the fixes in the last @BIOS update....worth a shot!
Aussie Allan
I appear to be, yeah. "VGA Tools - @BIOS Version 4.3", just uninstalled and reinstalled to check, because there didn't seem a way to easily check within the program itself.
You mentioned thast the coil whine has decreased since you started using the OC BIOS. That would be right and is why it generally quietens down when the load is higher and why turning of the power saving settings in the BIOS helps. C1E, EIST, all these settings can help to stop the noise.
Hmm, if anything the noise gets louder the more stress the card is under, which seems to be the case across the board from what I've read. Many people have problems with menu and loading screens because their GPU runs them at 500+ FPS. I used to have it quite bad (as well as temperature issues) on a GTX260 I had a few year ago. I'll take a look at the C1E and EIST settings in the motherboard BIOS though. Can't remember what I set them to when I overclocked my CPU.
Thanks again