Well I have put the card back in to the I7 atleast I know its not my system and its the card. I will give that a shot. If all else fails DSR Monday!!
Sorry I suggested otherwise and put you through all that mate. I didn't think it would be memory specific for 1375 over 1325. As you've probably read through the Unlock thread here at OCUK as well as the Techpower thread, there isn't many that have acted this way. Certainly not from what I've read on here at OCUK and Techpower.
My card showed limitations on the core and certain voltage way before I knew my limitation on the memory. Maybe I was just a little foolish thinking all would clock easily in core and memory to 880/1375 due to a combination of my own experience, other members here at OCUK and watching before I got my card as well as continuing today and reading on Techpower of the majority of cards clocking similarly to mine. I apologise for assuming and thinking it wasn't the card. I should have thought of the memory but it was late and I'm a donkey.
So are you happy with your card at the 6970 core or would you like one that can push further?.
I'm just happy that you're one step ahead now.
Stable at 880/1325 1.185V looks like it is whenever I try and clock the Memory is when it gives up!.
I'm glad you're now getting somewhere. This is the first 6950 I've seen that hasn't been able to push the memory.
Glad to hear it.
The memory on these does not like much, if any, above 1325. Many can't go 1325.
So now you can raise the core clock up bit by bit and see how high you can get it. Just keep the memory down to 1250 for benching. Memory speed makes little difference in benches or games so don't worry much about it. Ignore all the 1400~1500 nonsense you hear about the 6970 flashed 50's, they'll die soon enough...lol
1400-1500 nonsense?. I only ran benchmarks at 1500Mhz and it passed fine with no anomalies. These are short benchmarks as in a
few runs of Heaven 2.1 and a
few runs of 3DMark2011 at this speed and that was
weeks ago now with the fan running at a high speed. For gaming I run at 950Mhz/1450Mhz and have played for 8 hour sessions, I've played taxing titles (Crysis, Starcraft II, Dirt 2) as well as less demanding games and if for one second I seen anything out of place visually, I'd reduce my overclock
immediately and watch carefully as I find out my safe clocks. I'm not stupid, neither are others that have been running 1400-1450Mhz on their 6950 here at OCUK. I think a few here have overclocked a graphics card before you know......
Just because I couldn't determine this problem due to not experiencing or reading about such cases does not make me incapable of looking after my equipment. I think it's pretty rude of you to presume that anyone running their memory speeds between 1400-1450 are damaging their card unless you'd like to back that up?. Average I've seen is between 1375-1450 overclock on the memory.
Yes, you figured out it was the RAM overclocking that was the problem with this card and I'm thankful someone could help Hady but until 6950s start dropping like flies due to running at 1375-1450Mhz memory then I think you're assuming too much.
If you can prove that 1400-1450Mhz memory overclocking is killing these cards then I'll just have to eat my hat. If you are going to back this up then please start a thread as it's pretty important information that a lot of users would appreciate.
I look forward to your thread
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. I hope the next one reaches 1000Mhz on the core at stock 6950 volts (1.100) 
I feel like a right moron. You were talking about the 6970 BIOS 