JTL On the off chance do you remember where I posted my VBIOS for my 970? I've been searching the forum for ages trying to find it as I'm compiling a list of good and "bad" VBIOS.

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    I own ASUS GTX 1070 and its totally fine althrought im using Windows 7 and old drivers.

    degen I can't seem to find it, but I recall it's where you said you thought your 970 was fine.

    @Slacor might be able to help?

      I see this but there's not much of a way to search for stuff without keywords. What does a VBIOS comprise of? Model number? Version number? May be able to search for that
      @degen if they're found they can be documented on the wiki. something like

      https://wiki.ledstrain.org/docs/hardware/graphic-card/
      ## Nvidia
      ### Geforce 970
      VBIOS stuff

      or if you have a whole group of VBIOS of multiple devices

      https://wiki.ledstrain.org/docs/appendix/tests/
      ## VBIOS
      VBIOS stuff

      Could be useful to others and it won't get lost

        GTX 970

        Good BIOS versions:

        Gigabyte G1 Gaming Edition
        AgentX20 84.04.2F.00.80 - 2014-10-31 build date
        Kray - 84.04.28.00.4D - 2014-10-21

        Bad BIOS versions:

        MSI GAMING 4G
        Harrison - 84.04.36.00.F1 - 2015-01-08
        degen - 84.04.84.00.29 - 2016-01-25

        JTL I remember saying I thought it was fine. Then eventually I did some head to head experiments with my GTX 650 Ti Boost and I saw more noise with 970 and assumed it was dithering patterns. It may have been fine in that it wasn't bothering me that much, but it was definitely doing something that the 650 wasn't.

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          Slacor Wonder how hard it would be to search the posts table with a regex?

          I'll see about editing the wiki after I get Hugo installed on here.

            JTL Wonder how hard it would be to search the posts table with a regex?

            That was my thinking too,
            This is a messy regex I came up with that I'm going to search with

            degen Well you beat me to the punch, I just grepped your posts πŸ‘οΈ

            JTL I'll see about editing the wiki after I get Hugo installed on here.

            You can just edit in the browser too, although it misses out on showing shortcodes and such.

              Slacor It's funny because I would have had to have scrolled past it as I included AgentX20's BIOS version in my compilation, and his post was right before mine in the Nvidia Dithering thread. Anyway, I appreciate that you and @JTL were looking for and found it.

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                Slacor changed the title to 970 VBIOS .
                2 years later

                Hi, I'm a little confused about there VBIOS numberings, could someone please verify if 84.04.28.00.54 counts as a 'good' version?

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                  james34 Do you have a card with such a VBIOS version or are you considering purchasing one?

                  My research says that was built on 2014-10-22 so it's probably one of the "good" versions, so if you have a card with such a VBIOS I'd be curious to hear your feedback.

                    I found differences between 970 cards with different RAM manufacturers, so I wouldn't hold the VBIOS to be the sole indicator on good vs bad gear.

                    Me, I have a theory that there's more configuration held in the video card that can change - outside of the VBIOS itself. This is how good cards can go bad, perhaps as a result of a new video driver changing the underlying card configuration.

                    But - as I say - this is just my pet theory as a result of strange experiences over the years with stuff that used to work, not working after changes, and still not working after rolling back to the original OS configuration.

                      AgentX20 I found differences between 970 cards with different RAM manufacturers, so I wouldn't hold the VBIOS to be the sole indicator on good vs bad gear.

                      I think the RAM is a red herring unless something consistent with that can be demonstrated.

                      You may be right, but I have had multiple Gigabyte G1 Gaming cards, and there certainly seemed to be some sort of correlation.

                      All of them (2 or more) with Hynix ram caused eye strain.

                      All of them (3) with Samsung ram were OK.

                      Most were 1.0 hardware, though I do recall there were some 1.1 (the latter were all eye strain inducing) version cards in the mix. It was a while ago so I cannot recall all the permutations.

                      It's the nature of this dilemma that we go looking for any such patterns right!?

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