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Unlock your ATI 6950 to a 6970 Thread

easyrider said:
I would rather have an i3 and a "6970" than a 760 and a 5840
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Thank you mate. I will be gaming and surfing mainly with the odd game of poker so I won't miss the quad much for now. I'll be buying a quad "K" overclocking Sandy Bridge March/April and will give the i3, 4gb of DDR3 and motherboard to my mother as I may be starting to do some video editing in a few months.

This plan is all coming together quite nicely. Excellent *Mr Burns!.

I think I can suffer 3-4 months on the i3 and 6970 :D.
 
Martini1991 said:
^Andy^ has a link to the working ATI flash I think.
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Do what I did

For the people who need to unlockrom and fail at command line:

- Unpack the Winflash download onto your desktop in a folder called "winflash"
- Save the 6970 BIOS in your Winflash folder and name it unlock.bin
- Click Start Button
- Type "cmd"
- Right click the entry and select "Run as Administrator"
- Black command prompt windows opens
- Type "cd %USERPROFILE%\desktop\winflash"
- Type "atiwinflash -unlockrom 0" <-- the 0 means first adapter, if you have multiple cards, physically uninstall all but the one you want to flash
- Type "atiwinflash -f -p 0 unlock.bin"
- It should complete the flashing process with a message saying something with "verified".
 
[WU-TANG]GZA;18084560 said:
I knew about unlocking the cores on their CPUs tbh I didn't know that they have done this in the past with CPUs.

I apologise for my ignorance - but you have to excuse somebody for not knowing as much as the people on here but you have to see it from ppl like my point of view.

I bought a product for X price and the next day it comes out I could have had the inferior product but closer in performance than before for -20% price-wise.

Call it butthurt as much as you want...it's rather childish...but go ahead.

But like I said - not everyone knows as much as you guys nor has the time to research things as much as you do either.

Merry xmas
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Well this should make you feel better.
I paid £1919.07 in July including shipping for the pair of 5970 4GB Sapphire Toxics.
A pair of 6990 4GB will most likely equal or better them for £850-£1000, your situation don't seem so bad now does it ;), the difference is that i don't care :) i knew that they were priced 40% more than there true worth but there was no alternative at the time.

Lucky for me i stopped feeling bad envious/Jealous of what other people have compared to what i have since i was 13, that does not mean that i don't wish that i had that but i don't feel bad about it myself or feel bad towards them & im glad that the lucky Boat exists & that people were able to get on it even if i did not myself.

Merry Christmas :D
 
tezmo said:
Here's what I saw:
the retail 6970 card uses an 8-pin and a 6-pin connector for its auxiliary power whereas the 6950 only has a pair of 6-pin intakes, which might cause trouble under extreme loads
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I'm pretty sure the 2 extra pins on the 8-pin PCI-E connector are both grounds.

I remember a while ago when 8-pin power cards started coming out and the PSUs of the time didn't have 8-pin connectors you could buy (or got with the card) adapters that converted 6-pin ones into 8-pins.

Also if memory serves a card with an 8-pin power connector that had a 6-pin connector plugged in to it would still work but Overdrive would be disabled/missing in CCC.

Bottom line really is whether your PSU will handle a power draw on a 6-pin connector that potentially exceeds that which it would expect on the rail (i.e. 6-pin powered cards). Imo I can't see people having problems running the 6950-modded-to-6970 on the same PSUs they're already using.
 
easyrider said:
Do what I did

For the people who need to unlockrom and fail at command line:

- Unpack the Winflash download onto your desktop in a folder called "winflash"
- Save the 6970 BIOS in your Winflash folder and name it unlock.bin
- Click Start Button
- Type "cmd"
- Right click the entry and select "Run as Administrator"
- Black command prompt windows opens
- Type "cd %USERPROFILE%\desktop\winflash"
- Type "atiwinflash -unlockrom 0" <-- the 0 means first adapter, if you have multiple cards, physically uninstall all but the one you want to flash
- Type "atiwinflash -f -p 0 unlock.bin"
- It should complete the flashing process with a message saying something with "verified".
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Thanks. It kept saying 'cannot find unlock.bin', but I did use this:
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/159
Scroll down to where he has added the 'update' section and there is an easy peazy automatic one there.
 
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Final8y said:
Well this should make you feel better.
I paid £1919.07 in July including shipping for the pair of 5970 4GB Sapphire Toxics.
A pair of 6990 4GB will most likely equal or better them for £850-£1000, your situation don't seem so bad now does it ;), the difference is that i don't care :) i knew that they were priced 40% more than there true worth but there was no alternative at the time.

Lucky for me i stopped feeling bad envious/Jealous of what other people have compared to what i have since i was 13, that does not mean that i don't wish that i had that but i don't feel bad about it myself or feel bad towards them & im glad that the lucky Boat exists & that people were able to get on it even if i did not myself.

Merry Christmas :D
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Not really the same thing is it? 5970 and the 6990 are what? Over 12 months apart? For me it was 24hours and it has nothing to do with what other people have..... have you even read my posts? Maybe you should have practiced reading at 13 instead of controlling your emotions.
 
GJ02 said:
the power supply situ,
there is a reason the 6970 and the 6950 use a different power supply usage ( pins )

something somewhere is going to go wrong at some point with the flashed cards
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I feel the same too, I suppose its still too early to tell regards of evidence but we shall see in a few days, weeks, months or even when AMD release their proper 69xx series drivers.

I reminder looking in my HIS 6970 manual (something people dont hardly read thses days) and it clearly states to you use the correct connectors for the pins and NOT a convertor. E.g. a 6-pin to 8-pin convertor. So that must be the case for voltage reasons on the 6970.
 
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