Unlock your ATI 6950 to a 6970 Thread

Puppetmaster · 7 Jan 2011 at 11:40

What is the success rate of unlocking?

I will be building a new pc at the end of the month and wondering what card to go for. Im very tempted by a 6950 and unlocking it to a 6970, but then if it doesnt work im stuck with the lesser of the 2 cards. Ofcourse i have the option of buying a second, but that means another waterblock and a new power supply.

Durzel · 7 Jan 2011 at 11:46

Success rate seems very high.

There are as one would expect reports of cards (presumably memory) that can't handle it, one of my ASUS 6950 cards gives sparklies on the desktop and total corruption in any 3D app at 6970 speeds.

If you are concerned, just buy a 6970 and be done with.

Ezyryder · 7 Jan 2011 at 11:58

I think all the cores will unlock the cores. The RAM is another thing so my recommendation would be to download an updated 6950 with unlocked shaders and then overclock the core of the card as that is what it matters these days for performance.

gareth170 · 7 Jan 2011 at 12:10

Durzel said:
Success rate seems very high.

There are as one would expect reports of cards (presumably memory) that can't handle it, one of my ASUS 6950 cards gives sparklies on the desktop and total corruption in any 3D app at 6970 speeds.

If you are concerned, just buy a 6970 and be done with.

just use a asus 6950 unlock bios...

http://www.mediafire.com/file/80ywuj7umub2ei0/asus6950full.bin

MooMoo444 · 7 Jan 2011 at 13:06

So whats the deal with being able to unlock these into 6970's? A major slipup by AMD or just a slight oversight?

Same for their CPUs, keep reading about people buying dual cores and getting fully working quad cores.

Surely this is losing them a lot of money? :confused:

zpaf · 7 Jan 2011 at 13:25

My twins sapphire 6950 unlock to 6970 at 950/1450

Scougar · 7 Jan 2011 at 14:04

Pretty fantastic minimum's there :-)

zpaf · 7 Jan 2011 at 14:14

Scougar said:
Pretty fantastic minimum's there

Yeap this 69xx series has very good minimum's in all games.
6950 flash to 6970 at 950/1450

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Steves1982 · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:43

^^ Nice

GJ02 · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:44

what sort of difference are we looking at by just using the asus bios that unlocks the shaders ?

@ zpaf

what process did you follow to flash both cards ? i might do mine tonight
did you do them 1 at a time, or leave both in ?

l0z · 7 Jan 2011 at 16:50

Just joined the forum to report success with XFX 6950 winflashed using XFX 6970 bios. I've had 890 core / 1375 mem stable for 2 days now.

53.4 FPS / Score 1345 in Heaven 2.1 (@1920x1080)

easyrider · 7 Jan 2011 at 17:05

l0z said:
Just joined the forum to report success with XFX 6950 winflashed using XFX 6970 bios. I've had 890 core / 1375 mem stable for 2 days now.

53.4 FPS / Score 1345 in Heaven 2.1 (@1920x1080)

Welcome

brit~XR · 7 Jan 2011 at 17:23

How are you guys geting smart doctor to work with asus6970 bios? I installed it and rebooted but soon as i try run it, It says Error, Can not find graphics card information
Tryed installing different drivers from asus and ati site but no luck

gareth170 · 7 Jan 2011 at 17:41

brit~XR said:
How are you guys geting smart doctor to work with asus6970 bios? I installed it and rebooted but soon as i try run it, It says Error, Can not find graphics card information
Tryed installing different drivers from asus and ati site but no luck

it won't work with asus6970 bios.

you'll need to using with asus6950 unlocked bios

http://www.mediafire.com/file/80ywuj7umub2ei0/asus6950full.bin

zpaf · 7 Jan 2011 at 18:11

GJ02 said:
@ zpaf

what process did you follow to flash both cards ? i might do mine tonight
did you do them 1 at a time, or leave both in ?

Prefer to flash one at a time.

GJ02 · 7 Jan 2011 at 18:23

zpaf said:
Prefer to flash one at a time.

so you took one out and flashed, then took that out and flashed the other ?

zpaf · 7 Jan 2011 at 18:41

GJ02 said:
so you took one out and flashed, then took that out and flashed the other ?

Yeap

GJ02 · 7 Jan 2011 at 18:48

thanks zpaf

does anyone know what will happen if i dont take the cards out and flash them both at the same time via winflash

also, do i flick the switch when system is off or while in winflash ?

xtremedetailz · 7 Jan 2011 at 19:00

Much easier way of flashing guys....

Follow this link for info and this one to download all the files ready to go.

It works perfectly and even runs a backup of your original bios.

Big thumbs up to Techpowerup

Dazboots · 7 Jan 2011 at 19:43

Just broke 10k barrier with 2 6950 in crossfire flashed to 6970.

Processor
Intel Core i7-930 Processor
Processor clock
4294 MHz
Physical / logical processors
1 / 8
# of cores
4
Graphics Card
Graphics Card
AMD Radeon HD 6950
# of cards
2
SLI / CrossFire
On
Memory
3 MB
Core clock
0 MHz
Memory clock
0 MHz
Driver name
AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
Driver version
8.790.6.2000
Driver status
Not FM Approved
General
Operating system
64-bit Windows 7 (6.1.7600)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. Rampage III Extreme
Hard drive model
Memory
6144 MB
Module 1
2048 MB OCZ 9 @ 533 MHz
Module 2
2048 MB OCZ 9 @ 533 MHz
Module 3
2048 MB OCZ 9 @ 533 MHz
Detailed scores
3DMark Score
P10064
Graphics score
10675
Physics Score
9362
Combined Score
7646
GraphicsTest1
45.54 FPS
GraphicsTest2
55.15 FPS
GraphicsTest3
67.1 FPS
GraphicsTest4
32.07 FPS
PhysicsTest
29.72 FPS
CombinedTest
35.57 FPS
Settings
Default settings used
Yes
Edition
Basic
Screen Width
1280
Screen Height
720
Msaa Sample Count
1
Texture Filtering Mode
Trilinear
Max Af Anisotropy
1
Tessellation Detail
5
Max Tessellation Factor
10
ShadowMapSize
5
Shadow Cascade Count
4
Surface Shadow Sample Count
16
Volumetric Illumination Quality
5
Ambient Occlusion Quality
5
Depth Of Field Quality
5
Enable Window Mode
Off
Enable Vertical Sync
Off
Enable Triple Buffering
Off
Enable Wireframe
Off
Color Saturation
100%

link to 3d mark.

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/374246