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Well I was feeling smug...

The only thing the 480 ever had going for it was it's price.

Seeing as the roles have reversed now, I think you'd have to be a bit silly to buy a 480 of the 6950 at £200 unless you have a particular need for PhysX or CUDA.
 
Random Guy said:
Reports are beginning to filter in about major failures occuring with flashed 6950s. Its on one of the forums, will have to look around a bit....
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You are going to have to create the results there. The few failures that have occured (less than 3% in any case) have happened when the cards have been flashed to 6970s Bioses not when the card has been unlocked to 1536 shaders.

In any case look at these memory figures for Metro 2033... shows that it is pointless to buy a 1GB card (and almost pointless too to spend £300 on a 570 too!)

Metro 2033
1920x1080* AAA, 16xAF, Very High, Tesselation on, DoF on, Advanced PhysX on.
Maximum memory usage: 835MB
Average memory usage: 755MB

Metro 2033
1920x1080* 4xMSAA, 16xAF, Very High, Tesselation on, DoF on, Advanced PhysX on.
Maximum memory usage: 1132MB
Average memory usage: 1107MB

Metro 2033
1920x1200 AAA, 16XAF, Very High, Tesselation on, DoF on, Advanced PhysX on.
Maximum memory usage: 1038MB
Average memory usage: 1021MB

Metro 2033
1920x1200 4xMSAA, 16XAF, Very High, Tesselation on, DoF on, Advanced PhysX on
Maximum memory usage: 1274MB
Average memory usage: 1263MB
 
Sorry, edited in a link. To be fair, there are a handful of cards in total on the link, but is it indicative of future issues for people? I honestly could not say - just passing on information, not trying to troll.
 
Random Guy said:
Reports are beginning to filter in about major failures occuring with flashed 6950s. Its on one of the forums, will have to look around a bit....

EDIT: Here we are: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=138287

Toms Hardware and Hard Forum have similar discussions going on.
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If you read the thread, half the issues people were experiencing were down to driver/game issues, the other half were people who flashed to the 6970 bios.

I've said it several times on here already, but the 6970 bios is not suitable for the 6950, they are not the same card.
 
Random Guy said:
Sorry, edited in a link. To be fair, there are a handful of cards in total on the link, but is it indicative of future issues for people? I honestly could not say - just passing on information, not trying to troll.
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OK - but try and read the results. Techpowerup forums are full of fanboys (even more than here if that is at all possible!). Some of the reported faults in that poll come from users who don't even own an AMD card! hehehe.

In any case, faults have happened but I have only seen one card not unlocking shaders in the forums out of how many?!
 
Well, small update.

I ordered the today only 6950 and it arrived today. First impressions? Not great.

Rather than the stock vapour chamber cooler of all the other 6950/70s it has a heatpipe and dual fan job. Great in theory but it just felt flimsy, even compared to my 3 year old 8800gt with an artic cooling twin fan heatsink. When I got it installed I was shocked at how loud it was, even dropped to ~20% it's audible over everything else in my case.

Looks/sound aside the main point of a decent GPU is lovely smooth gameplay. So far I've had a quick run on Crysis and Metro. Both showed decent frames per second but actual gameplay was noticeably choppy, not a good start really.

At the request of a friend over steam I've installed an run Heaven benchmark. Extreme tesselation still seems to cripple ATI cards (a different discussion for a different thread - I don't want to start any of the usual BS) but I also noticed that some textures were popping in and out of focus and some bits of scenery were clipping out altogether. Is this normal for Heaven or a fault at my end?

So in short, I'm not too impressed so far, very tempted to send it back under DSR if this trend continues when I have more of a play over the next day or two. I've yet to try and unlock it to a 6970, it needs to win me round to the idea of keeping it before I bother investing any time or effort in it.

RIP GTX 295.
 
Geckovich said:
Well, small update.

I ordered the today only 6950 and it arrived today. First impressions? Not great.

Rather than the stock vapour chamber cooler of all the other 6950/70s it has a heatpipe and dual fan job. Great in theory but it just felt flimsy, even compared to my 3 year old 8800gt with an artic cooling twin fan heatsink. When I got it installed I was shocked at how loud it was, even dropped to ~20% it's audible over everything else in my case.

Looks/sound aside the main point of a decent GPU is lovely smooth gameplay. So far I've had a quick run on Crysis and Metro. Both showed decent frames per second but actual gameplay was noticeably choppy, not a good start really.

At the request of a friend over steam I've installed an run Heaven benchmark. Extreme tesselation still seems to cripple ATI cards (a different discussion for a different thread - I don't want to start any of the usual BS) but I also noticed that some textures were popping in and out of focus and some bits of scenery were clipping out altogether. Is this normal for Heaven or a fault at my end?

So in short, I'm not too impressed so far, very tempted to send it back under DSR if this trend continues when I have more of a play over the next day or two. I've yet to try and unlock it to a 6970, it needs to win me round to the idea of keeping it before I bother investing any time or effort in it.

RIP GTX 295.
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Hmm, did you buy the Twin Frozr?
 
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