New Mod Lets Anyone Load Custom VBIOS to RTX Graphics Cards—No Flashing Required

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If you've ever wanted to BIOS mod your graphics card but were too worried about bricking it, now is a great time to try. Thanks to developer Panchovix, we now have a new suite of tools to modify the BIOS of Nvidia RTX graphics cards without flashing over the original. Leaving the stock BIOS in place means you can never get the card stuck in an unbootable loop.

BIOS modding graphics cards has long been a popular method for serious overclocking. Iconic cards from yesteryear let you swap in a BIOS from a more powerful card, or tweak the internal power tables. But if you asked the card to do something it couldn't, or the process crashed during BIOS flashing, you could end up with a completely unusable card.

That's not a concern with the new Nvidia VBIOS Vix Loader, which lets you adjust everything within the GPU's BIOS...

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