Unlock your ATI 6950 to a 6970 Thread

easyrider · 27 Dec 2010 at 01:07

Going to run some heaven now and see what happens. I have ran Heaven at 900/1350 before without issues

Fingers crossed.

Swampster · 27 Dec 2010 at 01:07

easyrider said:
And after

Special Thanks to W1zzard

Cool, now some benchies.. from before, now and after core clocking..would be nice

And a report on those possible artifacts!

BTW... yours is the XFX right?

OpenToSuggestions · 27 Dec 2010 at 01:12

What happens if you flick the switch on the card when the pc is on?

flopper said:
2 powercolor cards, one works fine, the other artifacts in windows.

But did the card that didn't like the flash work ok with when overclocking to 6970 speeds (with the 6950 bios).

danceforfreedom · 27 Dec 2010 at 01:21

Nice ^

easyrider · 27 Dec 2010 at 01:39

Below is 6950 flashed to 6970 running at the default 6970 stock speeds 880/1375

Below is the 6950 overclocked to 900/1350

The extra shaders are clearly working

easyrider · 27 Dec 2010 at 02:02

Stock 6870

Stock 6950

Stock Flashed "6970"

thingemajib · 27 Dec 2010 at 02:19

clearly taking a leaf from their phenom/athlon die harvesting techniques by not fusing the shaders off. Thats what i like to see

easyrider · 27 Dec 2010 at 02:28

Swampster said:
BTW... yours is the XFX right?

Sapphire

buttkinz · 27 Dec 2010 at 02:29

Congrats easy, what a great surprise Christmas present! Wish the 470 wasn't so tight fisted to let me do it

nvidia is a tightarse lol

easyrider · 27 Dec 2010 at 02:29

buttkinz said:
Congrats easy, what a great surprise Christmas present! Wish the 470 wasn't so tight fisted to let me do it nvidia is a tightarse lol

Cheers mate :cool:

Justintime · 27 Dec 2010 at 02:34

[WU-TANG]GZA;18081569 said:
Will this work for the 6970 too?

Sorry man, not much things make me LOL and spill tea all over the place at 2:34AM

easyrider · 27 Dec 2010 at 02:37

Its great that we get a 6970 2GB card for £220. This really is a nice Christmas bonus from AMD.

Makes the 6950 staggeringly good value really.

jigger · 27 Dec 2010 at 02:46

So that's now a full fat 6970 ?

easyrider · 27 Dec 2010 at 02:50

jigger said:
So that's now a full fat 6970 ?

Yup

Gerard · 27 Dec 2010 at 02:59

FrenchTart said:
...Must resist RMA....

I wouldn't bother, Murphys law says you'd get one that would artifact.

Omega · 27 Dec 2010 at 03:26

so tempted... but I dont think i'll see much improvement in performance over my 5870

need more to justify spending the money!

el Kuarlos · 27 Dec 2010 at 03:34

When it rendered the frames for this thread my 5850 let out a little squeak of fear.

Its days seem to be numbered.

seena · 27 Dec 2010 at 04:40

Next 6970 unlocking shaders to 1920

Scougar · 27 Dec 2010 at 07:49

If artifacting, once flashed, try underclocking mem or core a bit.

shaffaaf27 · 27 Dec 2010 at 08:15

this has sold me!