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hey Ron ready to do a quick video on how to flash an RX 484 gigabyte card into an 8 gigabyte card few things here so first of all this will not work on all cards it is at your own risk you may damage or brick your card by doing this but if you want to play around then this is the way that you would go at the procedure so there are two models the RX 44 gigabytes and 8 gigabytes the press samples had a toggleable v bios where we could switch between 4 & 8 even though the card physically has 8 it appears that a lot of the early retail samples also have this and so you can do the same sort of modified flashing procedure that we do to get it all functional you can see in gpu-z we've got a 4 gigabyte card and you need a utility called ati flash need version 2 7 for all the link in the description below for where to download that once you extract it the tool we want is ATI win flash exe when you open it it will always to do it as a launch it as administrator when you launch it as administrator and open it you'll get this dialog and this allows us to load images or save an existing image so I would always recommend saving your existing image no matter what I have a folder called roms I'm going to save it there so we've got an 8 gigabyte one I'm going to save this as 4 gigabyte retail card this will take a moment it'll save give it some time let it do its thing okay so ROM saved the file and now if you want to load an image you click load image and you're going to need obviously an 8 gigabyte image to make this work so if you already have an 8 gigabyte card if you have two cards for crossfire or something or what you just have an extra one you can use this program to save the 8 gigabyte ROM from your other card you swap the cards physically and then you load and program the ROM into the 4 gigabyte card if you do not have that luxury and you're working off things on the internet you can download an 8 gigabyte rom from places online I believe techpowerup has one of theirs posted we may build the BIOS repository in the future but download one from them that will click it so you can see here we've got 8 gigabyte rom in there click program and that will flash the V bios at this point if you have physically multiple chips you really really should check that before you flash but if you have the multiple the the 8 chips for vram then this will work and you'll unlock effectively an 8 gigabyte card so here's the the warnings warning number one if you do this even with a card that has eight chips for V RAM for memory it could break it might not work it might be slow so you if if you go through this procedure and it's a success you want to restart and then test in games validate make sure the memory speed is maybe not the frequency it should be and if all looks good then you were successful the other risk is if you have a four gigabyte card and maybe this is in the future from when we film the video and there are actually cards with lower density or capacity the RAM modules it will still look like eight chips on the PCB but they might just be a lower density if that's the case if that's where the manufacturing goes in the future there's a risk of causing some damage but it really just depends on how the V BIOS is programmed and how how you load it onto the card so those are the disclaimers kind of you want a decent idea of what you're doing before you do this but that is the process of flashing v bios on the AMD radeon RX 480 and if you want to go back we can go backwards as well and I would advise restarting before doing that but yeah so reboot the system to take effect yes we understand that if I want to go back at reboot click load image go to roms grab the 4 gigabyte ROM and that would put us back to where we were in the event that flashing to 8 gigabytes breaks the card or slows it down we can just throw back to the 4 gigabyte model and that's it so I believe doing this will will void your warranty I'm not 100% positive that's normally the case that depends on your manufacturer you buy from and aiv partners and things like that and if they have multi BIOS but totally at your own risk so good luck play around let us know how it works out for you and as always subscribe for more like this hit the page round like the postal video helps out directly and I'll see you all next time