I wanted to share my results with everyone. Just finished flashing the Strix 3080 120w-130w. Gave me roughly a 12% increase!! for all the major games I'm playing currently. Increase of 800 points for fire strike, 500 point increase for time spy. And my temperature only increased by 1°!!! Super happy with the results. I was considering upgrading to the 2022 g15 but with these results I think I'm good. One thing to mention after I flash the BIOS only one of my USB type-c display ports works for video out. Still works for standard data. I freaked out for a little bit and thought I may have killed the port. But I looked up the strix 15 and noticed that it only has one USB type-c port. So I'm assuming it's just not configured with that bio. GPU was around 88-90w. Now it's around 118-120w Very happy with results. Thank you so much for the video brother.
I agree so hard with last statement. I have been so much happier turning off the performance tracker. If the game runs smooth and feels smooth while looking great isn't that the whole point?
Same , looking at your framerates consistently is just not satisfying , you should be able to look once to see you're getting the best possible and then never look again unless needed
I actually had no idea how to flash vbios or do anything like that and I literally thought you needed to flash your actual bios. I've been looking on Google trying to figure it out and somehow I found this video and managed to flash my vbios successfully and now am getting better performance. Couldn't thank you enough for making this video!
For those ones who have Batttery draining with this modification, even while being plugged, and want to keep your battery life longer, just disable the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Method Battery in the Device Manager Options.
@@donatopirrod Of course as the battery will not be used. It is a way to bypass the battery, although if there is a power cut in your house for whatever reason, remember battery won't save nor avoid the laptop to be switched off, as the battery is not detected. Basically the laptop would be like a desktop pc.
@@xBehliwhat do you mean its help alot?? You make some of the user scratch thier head after doing that, its depend on your laptop if your GPU supported non ACPI-OFF or else your gpu will turn off and it will activate the cpu as your graphics card. Most of the laptop not supported or recommend to turn it off.
On the lastest build & version of Windows 11, nearly nothing in this video worked as it should have but still managed to get it done through my own research. However, thks for the introduction to NVflash and providing the 130W Strix G15 3060 VBIOS link. Flashed my brand new OMEN 15 3060 from 100 to 130W. Time spy total score was below average, now well above average. Graphics score @ 8850 ish up from low 8000s.
I have a Zyphyrus G15 with 3060 The vbios you provide in the description is actually not an ideal one since it doesn't support UFEI, it will cause the entire laptop lose it's display if you ever switched to iGPU mode. I was luckily able to do a fallback by RDP into windows and adjust it back to hybrid mode. Currently I'm using VBIOS Version:94.06.3C.00.57 (TUF Gaming A15 FA507RM), with max 140w. Haven't been able to do a detailed testing but it's likely working well.
I think the last chapter of this video is the most important :D but it's nice to know that I can change the vbios later down the line for a few extra fps, maybe for a future game that isn't quite hitting 60fps or something like that.
Hey Josh! been following you since I got my 2021 Zephyrus g15 and your videos have helped me so much. so recently I've been trying to hit 60 fps mark with horizon forbidden west but wont exceed 50fps with 99% 30fps I remembered watching this video way back and being too afraid of the risks at the time but now I've also repasted so I thought I'll give it a try. Followed your guide and after a brief mini heart attack (laptop turned off and wouldn't turn on for a while) voila! I'm running 133 watts and fps is a lot stable now, still at around 50fps but 99% is close to 40 so I think it did improve stability and I don't notice stutters now. So just wanted to say thanks for the helpful content man! Btw I just noticed your channel name xD , i thought it was Josh Cravey Tech for the longest time.
That’s awesome to hear!! Glad you successfully boosted that wattage. And yeah actually I just recently changed the channel name, it was just my name before 🤣
Thanks for the Tutorial. With my Asus G15 (5800HS and GeForce RTX 3080) connected to an external monitor I got 25500 on firestrike and 11200 on Timespy. Good results imo. I used the Asus 120-130w strix vbios.
@@JoshCravesTech Update: Although the Performance in Futuremark was way better, this didn't translate to games. The performance interestingly got worse. In Lone Echo 2 (this game is poorly optimised) the performance with the Strix VBios was worse than with the original bios. I don't why, but the CPU wasn't working as hard as they should be. CPU was stuck to 1,8Ghz. After flashing back the to the original VBios everything ran fine as before. Very weird. Perhaps to much wattage use on the GPU could kinda downlock the CPU?! I guess it's only due to the bad optimisation of Lone Echo 2.
@@gebirgskuchen5080 yeah that’s odd. They really do act differently on everyone’s machine. Might be the game is more CPU-bound so having the increased GPU wattage isn’t really helping. Weird that the CPU was running lower though!
@@gebirgskuchen5080 Did you only check one game? Maybe you just picked the one that doesnt benefit from a faster GPU? Did you went back to the original bios?
Wow did not think this would work knowing my luck but i manged to go from 80w 3070 to 115w 3070 small change but was enough to gain roughly 20fps in spiderman and my gpu temps only increased a little and my vr games run a lot better thank you for easy and clean tutorial may even try a higher tdp but i know that the 115w works
I have the zephyrus g15 and just did the vbios flash and am very happy with the outcome. Mass affect andromeda went from 106fps 1440p high setting to 150fps witch is about 29 percent increase. One thing is i noticed that the 200 watt charger cant keep the battery charge when gaming at full load. But a ok trade off cause it is a slow discharge
Thanks a lot Josh. I have got Zephyrus G14 with RTX3060 60-80W variant. I used vbios from G15 RTX3060 80-95W. Now peaking to 100W with temps atound 75-78⁰C ... Just 3⁰C higher! It is really great! G14 with 100W RTX3060, it is a joke 😄😄 Thanks a lot!
It's strange that on my G14 rtx3060 the temperatures became much higher, it was cpu 80-85C gpu 70-75, it became cpu 85-90 gpu 80-85, probably a bit too much for video. Used vbios from G15 rtx3060 80w-95w
@@vladimirokhrimchuk You are right. After when it was peaking to 95-100w it was 75-78⁰C. It was peak 100W and sustaiable was 80w. After playing sustainable at 95W I'm also getting 82-85⁰C ... And it is kinda scarry to be honest... I fond another Vbios with 80W with 85W boost ... it should be more propriet for that formfactor I assume... For 3060 maxq should be Tmax=93⁰C. I will se how it work...😉
@@vladimirokhrimchuk It is TUF Dash F15 FX516PM. But i found a way to use it as it it with 95W vbios. Go to manuál mode and set powerlimit for CPU at 35W. Fans to 90% gpu and cpu as well all the time and You will get 75⁰C on GPU even at 95W. For me it is working grat even at games like Kingdom Come which runs with 99% GPU ussage and did not cross 79⁰C. You may find your own way, but for me it is working. Cheers.
I flashed my razer blade 14 vbios from 100w to 140w MSI one. With the right settings it's running between 115 to 130watts and I can tell you it definitely makes a difference with a few games.
i’m planning to flash my blade 14’s vbios as well. May i ask you what are the thermal differences between the original vbios and MSI’s one? also what settings have you adjusted that grants you the most satisfying result?
@@TheDrakas thermal were around an extra 10c or so when it was running over 100 watts. So I'd say normally it's between 60/70 and now it's more like 70/80. If left to its own devices it will go over 130 watts in some cases so I'm looking to mess around with the voltage later to lower than a bit. Synapse doesn't seem to make a difference whether it's on low, meduim or high for the GPU. Just bare in mind, I don't use an external monitor but I think it disables the dedicated GPU option. Again I'm not bothered by this as I don't use an external monitor but just keep that in mind.
@@samhawkes6597 i see. One kore thing i’ve forgotten to ask before, If you choose “balance” profile in Synapse, does it still caps GPU power at around 90W?
@@JoshCravesTech I btw really like the modified 115w bios but this disables both usb-c ports to work as display outputs. the 130w bios runs a little too hot for my liking and since the power slider doesnt work in msi afterburner I can't lower it. do you have a vbios that is around 110-115w (the 100 watt bios makes it run it 85w max) that has working usbc ports by any chance?
@@JoshCravesTech something else i've had a problem even with the original bios is that only one of the usb-c ports works for display output, the one closest to the usb-a port used to work for a little and then just stopped working (I dont have a way to properly test if there is something wrong with the port but I can still charge the laptop with it). Is this a known issue and is there a way to fix it?
Gigabyte G5 11400F with RTX 3060 105 TDP and now I'm running the vbios from MSI GP series 130w with new pads and custom curved on msi afterburner. +7 FPS in games
Great video Josh! Very useful information, I myself was looking into this and it's quite hard to research alone. Been eyeing this zephyrus g15 r9 5900hs but with rtx 3080, its on sale in my country with approximately 1670 usd. The vbios you provided should work with that one too, I suppose?
The clevo90w-105w vbios works good on MSI Katana GF66 rtx3070 (stock 80w). The msi125w vbios had too much heat and also too much power consumption that the battery emptied itself (it have only 180w 9a 20v power supply against the other laptops have like 230watt power supplies).
@@JoshCravesTech in the first time it didnt worked to flash the vbios... maybe its a Windows 11 thing or it was my problem. I just deactivated the nvidia GPU, but had to deactivate and uninstall the nvidia GPU then it was working.
Hi Josh! thank you very much for your contents, i think it's very detailed and awesome, keep the good work man! and i was considering to purchase g15 as my main computer for 3d modeling and animation, do you think this machine will suits the work?
It would work great for that! The screen’s color are super vibrant and accurate which makes it nice for that. Plus it has a lot of power and portability
I am going to attempt to flash a gtx 1650 bios onto a mx450, mainly because they use identical chips tu117: but lenovo's default settings for the mx450 usually has it peg at a temperature of 65 degrees celcius. That, and the powerdraw tends to only very variably go to 0.73mv and mostly hovers at 0.6mv. The main difference between the mx450 and gtx 1650 (on laptops) is tdp, memory bandwidth and sustained clockspeeds.
A thing to do is disable nvidia platform controllers and framework on your rtx 3000 laptop GPU. This basically disables dynamic boost. Now my nitro 5 with the 3070ti hits its 150w tdp almost all the time. AND your CPU can still boost well and use its own power. So the shared TDP between the GPU and CPU is removed, netting a perf gain. Also undervolted the GPU and vram. Got a nice perf increase.
Yes but on some laptops (or maybe all?) when you disable Nvidia platform controller then the GPU only runs at the lowest dynamic boost amount. So if a GPU is 100-120w, it’ll run at 100w flat. BUT if you use Nvidia driver 528.49 it unlocks the TGP slider in MSI Afterburner and from there you can manually max out your TGP after disabling framework, giving you max TGP 24/7.
@@JoshCravesTech Indeed. One of the reasons I hate updating any piece of software. And trust me, I LOVE seeing my 3070ti max out its 150w. Also, just curious, why did nvidia disable the power sliders on further updates? I mean we're within range of the gpu power.
@@siyzerix yeah idk why but from what I understand it was an accident. Nvidia loves to lock down mobile GPUs as much as they can. I’m hoping they “accidentally” unlock it again at some point because that driver is going to get pretty outdated within a few months or so.
@@JoshCravesTech Yeah, and that's why I was looking for a vbios. Is there a way to disable nvidia's crappy dynamic boost permanantly? Its literally worse than useless. Its detrimental. Cause I know that driver will become outdated.
@@siyzerix so flashing a vbios will sometimes allow things to run as if there is no dynamic boost. For example on my Flow X16 with the 3070 Ti, when I flashed the Zephyrus Duo vbios (150w), not only did my GPU wattage go up, but my CPU wattage also went way up. From there you can update your Nvidia drivers just like normal, but in order to avoid too much throttling you may have to downclock your GPU using the voltage editor or something. For me I used Manual mode in Asus Armoury Crate to kind of control things a little more. It’s a nice performance jump though!
Thanks for this bro! Just please talk slower less cuts when you edit. People breath in real life so the brain has time to analyze the info I got the 115-130 watt vbios and we'll see how it goes ! I might push it harder and get some 3080 profiles as long as battery drain isn't to severe, I've wanted to do this upgrade for a while just lacked a good solid guide, so thanks again! Up over 550 points in timespy lol !!! ( 10180 ) 😁👍* also upgraded ram to 24gb
Thank you! However I’m not sure if increasing GPU wattage would help with streaming/OBS. Maybe increasing ram would help there though since that has more to do with running multiple programs at once.
i know the majority of the video didn't apply to my situation, but I have two working p150em's from Clevo/Sager and need to flash the vbios on one of them, with the working rom on the other, the cards are 675mx, and notoriously stubborn to work with. Thanks for the info in the video.
It's not all about the if you have enough thermal headroom,I had a msi gf63 rtx 3050 40 watt I flashed a 60 watt vbios but then still it was using 40 watts later I came to know the vrms couldn't handle the 60 watt rtx 3050 and there was a vrm bottleneck
Great video. What about usb-c ports? After flashing another vbios are they still functional? Because I remember I read somewhere on Reddit that after flash one of ports won't be passing displayport signal.
I really liked the Eluktronic 3080 vbios that is 115-165 watt but unfortunately after gaming for a few minutes it gives me a BSOD on my Razer. I tried using DDU but it would not fix the issue so I just went back the 130 watt 3080 Razer vbios and all is well. I really liked the performance increase though and I wonder if there is a way to stop the BSOD and use a higher power vbios? I think you have to use a vbios from your same manufacturer.
my results for rtx 3070 strix 130w vbios time spy score = 10 740 vbios msi-140w time spy score =11 521, but the issue with msi 140w didn't display right wattage and temps, so after the benchmark, I reinstall strix 130w vbios for safety 😅
also, I repaste CPU with Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut, GPU with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut VRAM with K5 PRO before changing vbios ,CPU temp before around 95-96 at max after 87 at max
Helo sir, very much thanks for this content🙏🏻✅ Im wondering a bit about whether you have read some Good/OK rumors of doing custom vBios for rtx2k mobile Gen?
Awesome video! I decided to go with the Razer 110w vBios, but whenever I actually play games like Cyberpunk and Control, it usually stays at 94-95w instead of boosting to 100-110w with CPU Boost off. Is something wrong with any configurations or is it supposed to be like this? The 80-100w is able to boosts up to 100w with CPU boost off, while the Razer 110w is averaging about 94w. (Dynamic Boost is enabled in device manager)
It’s good that you checked device manager and cpu boost on/off. The only other thing you need to check is if maybe it’s just reporting it wrong. First open Nvidia Control Panel and check the system information window to make sure it is indeed 110w max. Then run a Time Spy benchmark and see if your GPU score is higher than before. If it’s a decent amount higher, then it’s probably working and it’s just not reporting the actual wattage.
@@JoshCravesTech Yes, everything is reported good. Max is 130w (110w basically), Base Wattage is 90w but it doesn't go above or below that even with dynamic boost on and cpu boost off, and my timespy scores are definitely higher. About 9,600 to 10,100/200. One thing I did find out is that, the system IS able to pull 110w after a system shut down/restart but once I launch a new game it will go back to 95w.
I successfully flashed 130w vbios in my RTX 3060 laptop which was originally 95w. But my performance seems to be much lower, I feel like the laptop is not using my nvidia gpu since it's not shown in the msi afterburner monitor. Can you suggest me anything regarding this?
i got gygabite g5 kc with 105w boost version. vbios it with clevo 115w version stock and boost and undervolt it. free fps boost and the cpu seems to push further. its overall equivalent to little upgrade. before i have drops under 60 fps in some games , now almost never. changed the stock ram also with kingston fury and it perfomce like dekstop
If your laptop also has an iGPU then the likelihood of "bricking" is very low since you will be able to boot into windows and see a screen, making it infinitely easier to re-flash your factory VBIOS back onto the card. So.... don't be scared!
My thoughts exactly! My problem when I bricked my Omen 15 was I was in dGPU mode so the iGPU was disabled. I had no fallback and the Omen had no way of switching back to iGPU mode on its own without physically logging in and switching it in their software. What's worse is all the display outputs were connected to the dGPU so I couldn't do it through an external monitor either, lol. Just bad engineering decisions on their part.
did you knew about MOSFET textolite burning problem on asus laptops? I worry that increasing of heating and bad cooling of this parts will kill notebooks motherboard.
I haven't seen anyone try this with a 1000 series GPU, so I can't answer this for sure unfortunately. But they are the same die I believe so theoretically it should work?
I haven’t heard of anyone having success with that personally. Even though some laptops might line up with their ports, it doesn’t always function as it should. But if you’re willing to try, let me know how it goes!
Yeah it should. Just be careful like I mentioned. Try to stick to a vbios of a laptop from the same brand or to one that you’ve seen other people use successfully already if possible.
Hi Josh, I have a omen 16.1 3050ti laptop with ryzen 7 5800h and have been getting lower performance in my usual games lately. I stumbled upon this video and was wondering is there a good vbios for my 3050ti gpu which maxes out on 80W. Thank you so much!
Ah.. i still failed w notif: NOTE: exception caught Nothing changed! ERROR: GPU mismatched Athough i used the patched nvflashed version... Why that sir? Mine a 2060m
@@JoshCravesTech hi sir josh thankyou for the reply🙏🏻 After days of trying & scouring, it seems to lighten up that my case is Unlucky & peculiar which is: My 260m version is the oldest one pre-refreshed (Jan 29 2019) whereas the Refreshed, codenamed with a -B (Apr 2 2020) though very much similar in overall spec, has different unusual vrm & vram physical spec electricity thingy (separate matter aside from lower memClock Mhz & lower gpu Die voltage w higher 115w) So for my 260m ver. TGP of 90w is its highest watt variant already😞 (weaker ones is the identical but 260m Official maxQ 65w, can be force-flash to 90w using my 260m vbios w ease..) Despite, ive kept taking the risks & gone as far force-flashing Tenths of TPW 260m vbios with Tenths of Nvflash versions both patched (board id mismatch bypass, cert bypass etc from TPW & personal patched by any ppl) that i found thru Any forums & official versions available on TPW, also vary myself w all the nvflash known Force commands such -A -3 -4 -5 -6 just resulting in the same rejection & error info as my original post😞😣 Perhaps im so very lucky it hasnt been bricked thus far But i am still.. wanna.. of more powwa .. succeed🤕 Do you happen to b familiar w my case details & perhaps could share a bit of what youv experienced/known of it sir Josh?
I need help , ASUS Messed up my RTX 3070 Ti made boost clock at 1035! and running below 80Watts even tho it's capable of 120Watts! Which is really slow!! and i can't find a compatible BIOS :/ used to have usage 80/100 Watts before BIOS Update
Hello. So if i understand this correctly, does it mean that vbios is useless for high-end GPUs thats already running at maximum wattage? Like say im having an MSI Vector GP78 with an rtx 4090 which runs at 175w maximum, does that mean that i wont be able to flash vbios it to increase more wattage, since its already at maximum limit of that GPU model?
Hey posh Josh, so after about 2 weeks I found myself just going back The the "new stock" vbios. Got a 9600 in timespy and I think I'm happy with that, it's not 10400 but I found the fan noise to just be WAY too annoying with the 115w-130w bios and my question is. Will you be updating this info in the future since you have the new 2022 model is it possible to get a copy of that Vbois ? The 120w seems more appealing and I'd like to try it out. The strix vbios just ramps up the fans even though I'm not hitting high temps the system just wants the fans to run faster and I ain't down for all the noise.
Great Video! Have a question: Is it possible to use the BIOS of a 2080 mobile with 200 Watts on my RTX 3080 Ti Mobile Laptop? so it unlocks it to 200 Watts of TDP? I got enough thermal headroom with water cooling. Thx.
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İt need to be the same gpu and there isnt a 200w 2080 mobile ı think it would be like 150+50 which probably cause a battery drain
The new G14 is awesome. Amazing for how small it is, and the performance is very closely matched to the G15. The G15 pulls ahead in most games, but not by much and in some games the G14 does actually pull ahead. The biggest difference though is that Nvidia GPUs have DLSS which is basically free fps. AMD has their own version called FSR but it’s not as good.
@@JoshCravesTech one thing i wanna say thanks for info that you givin in your videos about performance boost ram upgrades etc. This things and with this much detail in videos you ste only guy with this good type of content 😀 Hope to see more thing about laptop tuning 😀 🤟
How to fix "does not match adapter pci subsystem Id" I successfully flash the vbios but it lags like 20fps only even I re install nvidia driver using ddu
Open device manager after you reboot and see if your GPU is showing under “display adapters”. If not, then it may not be compatible or you just need to try rebooting a few more times to see if it shows up.
Hi Josh. Do you know is there any chance to upgrade my Asus tuf 3050 (60w) boost mode 75w little higher? At max my GPU has 70-75 celcius so i think there is a chance to put more voltage
those are the non ti version also work with my laptop i got strix 3070ti 150w it's good but i need my cpu to stay at 50w then gets down in gpu usage not 25 30w that extra 20 25 gets used for gpu so my gpu cpu is around 180w i need it to get 190 195w any suggestions?!
I had a question about your bricked laptop Did you fix it or try connecting an external display?. And is it possible to flash stock bios without back up?.
That has worked for some people but it did not for me. And yes you can flash your stock vbios as long as you have the rom file. Anyone with the same laptop with the same GPU would have the same vbios file.
Hi I'm trying to flash my HP OMEN AMD5800H rtx 3070 max:100W And even when I use the protectoff command.. *which works btw, after entering nvflash plus the rom filename, I get "nvflash exception caught" "nothing changed" using the nvflash from inside your zip, the modified nvflash off Techpowerup doesn't even recognize display adaptors despite them both showing up in device manager. Any ideas? Thanks for the tutorial.
For Lenovo I would recommend searching Reddit to find one that is tested already. If you can’t find one, any Lenovo vbios of the same GPU SHOULD be compatible, but it’s not guaranteed.
I think asus is preventing vbios change in asus tuf a15 2021 series of laptops as i have tried 10 different vbios gpu speed clock stays at 307 mhz and power of gpu is 752 Watts shown but its actually sucking 30 watts etc
@@JoshCravesTech i have even downgraded bios to 305 from 313 but to no avail either changing the vbios causes pc to fully stutter or hang or massive drop in performance
Managed to do it, timespy came at 11,080 and most games got a nice bump in fps, specially gpu intensive games, I noticed that after a while gaming my battery was draining while playing, any ideas on a fix for this? Maybe a higher wattage charger?
Yeah sometimes a monitor output will get lost since it’s not a perfect match, and you have to either flash back or try a different output like HDMI or USB-C
i use an hp victus 16 3050 75w model and i recently flashed vbios of an asus g14 with a tgp of 95w and it flashed successfully but when i run a game it only runs at the basic 75w not at 95w as it should ? do you know what might be going wrong ?
