hi just wondering

first of all the motherboard doesn't support sli/crossfire so don't go buying a 2nd graphic card for it.

secondly don't go buying the 6970 for more money than a 6950 because they are both the same card technology components, the only thing thats different is the software thats on them, there is a step by step guide on how to flash the 6950 into a 6970 on utube (see link provided)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvp5-SlV1Q0

believe me when i say it's the simplest flashing of your graphic card thats been around in a long long time, it only takes 2 minutes total and thats including going and putting the kettle on for a cuppa
 
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Lol thanks for the answer it my son in laws new PC wouldnt listen to me about building it so that preditor is wheat he is left with REALLY tempted to spend the same amount of money on commponents and build myself just to show him what a waste of cash it was
 
To explain your crossfire/sli question.

Theres a wrong way and a right way of supporting this feature.

Symmetrical crossfire/sli - means both PCI-E 16X slots get the same bandwidth usually 8X/8X each, more expensive boards do it at 16X/16X each, just because a slot is a physical 16X in length doesn't mean its fully wired up to this spec.

Asymmetrical crossfire/sli - this is what most cheap boards that claim to support this feature have, there is not enough pci express lanes from the control chip to split equally between the two slots like the above method, so what they do is give 16X for the first slot and a much slower 4X for the second slot.

Also another thing that can happen with the cheaper motherboards is the USB or SATA3.0 ports can get reduced in speed because of the lack of pci express lanes.
 
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smudge2126 said:
Lol thanks for the answer it my son in laws new PC wouldnt listen to me about building it so that preditor is wheat he is left with REALLY tempted to spend the same amount of money on commponents and build myself just to show him what a waste of cash it was
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haha.... evil :p
meh... lol do it, but hope for your sake you can afford to do it cos he'll be pestering you after you've done it
 
well its the HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB thats coming and with the youtube link above i'll be flashing it to the 6970 at some point for my son in law he's a bit thick so i'll have to do it if he decides to go that route

Will that be safe to do or is it risky?
 
its fine, many many people have done it successfully, a lot of them just flash the card to unlock the extra shaders while leaving the clock speeds alone.
 
shaders are what has brought the graphics in games into this century, it's just as it sounds, many layers of shading within graphics
 
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