[SOLVED] Is flashing the BIOS on the reference RX 480 safe?

[wferrante09]

I recently was thinking about this and wanted to see if i could flash my RX 480 from 4GB of VRAM to 8GB

 

[volkgren]

That only worked on the first shipments of the RX 480. So if you didn't buy yours within the first month of them releasing in 2016 then it likely won't work. It will void your warranty if you have one and it can brick your card. So it's not safe, no. There are ways to unbrick a card with a forced flash using the command prompt, but it's still risky.

 

[wferrante09]

That only worked on the first shipments of the RX 480. So if you didn't buy yours within the first month of them releasing in 2016 then it likely won't work. It will void your warranty if you have one and it can brick your card. So it's not safe, no. There are ways to unbrick a card with a forced flash using the command prompt, but it's still risky.

Ok, i got mine in december 2016 so i guess not... I am currently making a new build but didnt know if an RX 480 4GB and a Ryzen 7 2700X was a good duo