Unlock your ATI 6950 to a 6970 Thread

easyrider · 28 Dec 2010 at 11:59

gareth170 said:
what voltage you guys getting with the normal 6970 bios?

I'll check in GPUZ

easyrider · 28 Dec 2010 at 12:09

Do some 6950 Heaven runs clocked @ 880/1375

Then

Do some "6970" Heaven runs clocked @ 880/1375

Post your findings.

GO TO WORK

easyrider · 28 Dec 2010 at 12:16

GJ02 said:
my clock max in afterburner and ccc is 840 & 1325 ???

no more numbers to slide to after them

normal ??

No After burner should allow higher clocks. :confused:

EDIT@ Forgot about editing the config file lol

easyrider · 28 Dec 2010 at 12:35

Jokester said:
Stickied.

Absolute madness hahaha.

Woot my first ever sticky!

easyrider · 28 Dec 2010 at 12:36

GJ02 said:
yeah got it mate, the way pieman wrote it i was looking for a file called unoficial overclocking

all sorted now thanks guys

temps are nowhere near as bad as i was expecting

Forgot about changing the config file. Not been awake long

Remember to do what ask

easyrider · 28 Dec 2010 at 12:43

If you forgot what performance increase you are having for free people. And get complacent.... Just flick the bios switch on the card to go back to a stock 6950.

easyrider · 28 Dec 2010 at 13:19

gareth170 said:
i've just thought , 20+ on the power control makes 12% beyond the specified power limit which is safe but surely if u then oc the card it'll use more power/watt which would make it unsafe?

Dunno.

Having the card at +20 does naff all for performance for me. I have tested it.

Also depends on how far you want to push I guess.

TBH I'm tempted to get another

easyrider · 28 Dec 2010 at 16:24

Trifid said:
For the price of 1 monitor and another 6950 it is tempting to try Eyefinity. I can't get a decent overclock with 12GB of RAM. I might keep an eye on the for sale section for a 1kw PSU, they have gone really expensive new.

No one needs 12GB of ram

easyrider · 28 Dec 2010 at 16:59

A stock i7 on CF 6950 is a waste.

easyrider · 28 Dec 2010 at 17:35

Trifid said:
While running 5760x1080 resolution?

There is just something wrong about running i7 @ stock!

easyrider · 30 Dec 2010 at 19:49

CSA said:
well i successfully flashed a HIS using the batchfiles downloaded at techpower up

not sure what bios it used to be honest as i had a sapphire and a HIS one in the folder

ive ran furmark,heaven and 3dmark 11 without issue

idles at 38C and load at 78C

gunna fire up BC2 now and enjoy it

btw , this "PowerTune slider to the +20% setting" is it actually needed ?

no

easyrider · 30 Dec 2010 at 20:19

pieman109 said:
Well I suck worse than easy when doing this sort of thing which is why I used the "noob" package form techpowerup, just one click and its done. i found the modded bios that in atiwinflash called "unlock.bin" and thats the actual bios thats installed in the card when its flashed. I reckon that bios can be removed and replaced with your bios (the one that leaves the overclocks and Vram timings alone). I just need to identify which of the files in that techpowerup package is the actual bios so I can rename it and copy it to the atiwinflash software. I'm assuming, and please correct me if I've got this all wrong, I should be able to run the noob package and load the new transferred bios which repalced the original.

Yes aslong as you rename the bios to unlock.bin

easyrider · 30 Dec 2010 at 21:17

I have never seen my card hit 80c yet

easyrider · 31 Dec 2010 at 20:30

nbkpsycho said:
Hello peeps, I got my HIS 6950 today and i flashed it with the asus 6970 bios. All went well with the flash but 3dmark 11 keeps freezing no matter what i set the power options to. Any help would be great.

Re-install the driver

You finally shifted those 5870's

easyrider · 31 Dec 2010 at 20:36

Makes sure you are using the 10.12 hotfix

easyrider · 31 Dec 2010 at 20:48

You have to download the driver alone in custom then download the preview and just install CCC2

easyrider · 2 Jan 2011 at 12:49

Jokester said:
Looking at the Wizzards results, the failure rate is only about 1%.

easyrider · 4 Jan 2011 at 13:37

HighlandeR said:
Has the flash been stable though for most of you guys?

ie your not getting any crashing or freezing during long hours of gaming ?

I have been playing black ops for hours without issue

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

easyrider · 10 Jan 2011 at 13:22

xtremedetailz said:
Can the OP please update the first page to take into account the easier methods of flashing and flashing back that i posted

Done