--------------------------------------------------------------------------You weren't referring to the twin frozrIII at all, where in your post does it say this? you were talking about all the 6950 cards. do you remember what Mr Krugga called you in that thread?
And just in case you were somehow in your mind talking about the TwinFrozrIII needing extra voltage of some sort of "unlocking" to overclock?
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/HD_6950_Twin_Frozr_III/26.html
Which is more than 50mhz from the stock MSI setting of 850mhz on the core, they then went on and overclocked further with more voltage to 1050mhz.
So No, you dont need extra voltage or whatever to get more than 50mhz out of either a stock revision1 card or a MSI TwinFrozrII
I think the OP can clearly see that any info you may have to give is useless and wrong.
Listen and learn
you are limited to 900mhz / 1325mhz max unless you flash your card to unlock the bios settings.
So your quotes:
The overclocks listed in this section were achieved with the default fan and voltage settings as defined in the VGA BIOS
and this,
The overclocks of our card are 975 MHz core (14% overclock) and 1400 MHz Memory (8% overclock).
Is irrelavant as you clearly have no clue what your talking about.
The op certainly does not need to be listing to you as you don't even know what it is your talking about,
Your just getting things others have said and throwing them onto the thread trying to look cool in the process.
would gladly give him more on the rest of his build.
@Spydell - you're a moron.
Obviously not, as all the reviews achieved higher overclocks without any flashing or voltage increases.
Obviously your wrong again and are still persistent on being a buffoon.
I have the card and know exactly what i am talking about.
To go over 900mhz / 1325mhz the card will need its bios unlocked period.
Obviously do, as all you have said i have simply dismissed with proof from review websites![]()
Another example of you just throwing stuff on the thread without actually knowing for yourself.
Look at the bottom of you so called proof from review websites where it says
Clock Profiles
Do you see where it says overdrive limits
900/
1325
that means its limited to go no higher without modifying the bios
The card in the review you where so quick to post to had been flashed.
You should read what your about to post and stop claiming false facts.
Now there are a few things you need to know, in default Afterburner will not allow you to overclock over 900 MHz on the graphics core due to limitations set by AMD.
So 900 MHz is pretty much your limit. Should you be willing to take a little more risk then you can enable Unofficial Overclocking mode.
Another example of you just throwing stuff on the thread without actually knowing for yourself.
Look at the bottom of you so called proof from review websites where it says
Clock Profiles
Do you see where it says overdrive limits
900/
1325
that means its limited to go no higher without modifying the bios
The card in the review you where so quick to post to had been flashed.
You should read what your about to post and stop claiming false facts.
To find the maximum overclock of our card we used a combination of GPUTool and our benchmarking suite
Those may be the limits using the CCC Overdrive but other software is available which can go past those limits without modifying the BIOS.
Those may be the limits using the CCC Overdrive but other software is available which can go past those limits.
You complete fool.
Thats the max settings using ATIs Overdrive in the driver
Using a better program got better results.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/HD_6950_Twin_Frozr_III/26.html
To quote you from your review websites they had flash there card you sponge.
For even more performance, or as another method to get more performance, you could try the HD 6950 to HD 6970 mod which worked on our card.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/HD_6950_Twin_Frozr_III/27.html
Clearly again your wrong no software will go past these limits until the bios has been modified.
Keep digging your whole so you can bury your head in it you twit.
Read this:
Overclock using MSI Afterburner
Overclocked to 1008MHz on the core and 5800MHz on the memory using nothing but MSI Afterburner.
No BIOS flashing.
No unlocking.
No modified BIOS.
All done with software.
Here is a quote from gcaster who also has this card and tried the method you mentioned.
Best I can get my card to is 900/1390 stable. I've had this running for up to about 6 hours of constant gaming (Rift with everything on max, inc supersampling) but pushing either CC or MC any higher causes crashes.
This is with the card running in CrossFire mind but I know my first card (XFX Reference card, under water) was stable at 950/1440 before adding the MSI card so I am pretty confident it's the MSI card causing the issues.
I've managed to run Heaven as high as 930/1400 and I could have probably pushed the MC a bit higher on this.
Cooling wise I find this card to be very impressive, it idles just 2-3 degrees higher than my watercooled card at around 35C and at load it peaks around 70C with the flashed bios. This is with unlocked shaders and a GPU core voltage of 1.2V and it still only runs 5-10C hotter than my watercooled card under load with the voltage at 1.175V. Considering my reference card was hitting almost 100C at load and sounded like a plane at take off I'd say these are pretty impressive from MSI.
EDIT: Forgot to say, the clock speeds are obviously kept at the same values on each card when in CrossFire.
I'm sorry to have caused such a debate!
Overclocking is something I'm not too bothered about at this stage,I don't feel confident enough to even begin trying it.
But from a few different people recommending the gear in post 23,I'm sure it must be good.I've almost got the money together,at the 600 mark atm,payday is too far away and i hate waiting.
I may have to raid the old ball'n chains savings jar and hope she doesn't notice (not really)