ASUS HD6970 Voltage Tweak OC results@1015/1520MHz Stock cooling

[GoldenTiger]

hehehe.... Flashed success now for mine Sap6950 to ASUS6970
and benching to checking for performance

Let us know if the performance is correct for it now! Grats and hope so... I may switch to 2x 6950 to unlock to 6970, instead of my GTX 580 if this works right. Tempting, but not sure it's worth the hassle/risk of not unlocking two cards properly...

[Hicksetto]

hehehe.... Flashed success now for mine Sap6950 to ASUS6970
and benching to checking for performance

Could you please confirm that you have flashed ASUS HD 6970 BIOS to Sapphire HD 6950 and it worked?

If possible could you please share your results (before/after screenshots etc...) and experiences with us?

[flopper]

flashed.
got to try.
worked.
2 6950 Powercolor
However, seeing artifacts in 3D and benches wont run.

gpu-z shows 1600unified shaders.
so, seems this is a luck of the draw to get a working ex for unlock.

[ZoLKoRn]

Could you please confirm that you have flashed ASUS HD 6970 BIOS to Sapphire HD 6950 and it worked?

If possible could you please share your results (before/after screenshots etc...) and experiences with us?

wait a moment it on benching now, i try for clock per clock of gpu with before
and after flashed

Okay quick results from my Sapphire hd6950 flashed to Asus hd6970, for bios flash method not any specials you can see from #9 on
this thread on first page and must thank you to Pyr0 for his sharing of method

first let to see bios flash screen for confirm is i used true Sap6950 flash to Asus6970


Results from original bios of sap hd6950@800/1250MHz (stock Freq.)


Result after flash to Asus hd6970 and benching at stock frequency of asus bios@890/1375MHz


Score from 3Dmark11 increasing about 500Mark and this scale same as from older my results on review between 6970 and 6950
but wait to see more for MHz per MHz

[DJSUB]

wow it's nice to see that zolkorn

[Bodkin]

Hey guys, started new thread to make it clear to outhers what seems to be working

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=264159

[Hicksetto]

@ZoLKoRn, thank you very much! Performance difference is caused by increased clock speeds. Could you please test at the same clock speeds with berfore/after BISOes?

[ZoLKoRn]

It coming for the same clock speeds with berfore/after BISOes, and for more approve of score i tried to running three time for checking on new Biosed and
results looking increasing about 100mark all time.

Running #1


Running #2


Running #3


Well for stock bios it can did score only 45xxMark, So how everyone thinking ?

one more result for try to overclocking


Thank you.

[Hicksetto]

@ZoLKoRn, thank you very much! Actually we need results of following situations to compare performance within two BIOSes:

1- Default Sapphire HD 6950 speeds with Sapphire HD 6950 BIOS
2- Default Sapphire HD 6950 speeds with ASUS HD 6970 BIOS

[ZoLKoRn]

@ZoLKoRn, thank you very much! Actually we need results of following situations to compare performance within two BIOSes:

1- Default Sapphire HD 6950 speeds with Sapphire HD 6950 BIOS
2- Default Sapphire HD 6950 speeds with ASUS HD 6970 BIOS

Please check at #29 of me in first 3D11 bench it result from original sapphire bios and original clock too@800/1250MHz, you can checking bios version on GPUZ compare with dos screen it same for old bios is atiflash report.

[Pyr0]

@ ZoLKoRn
what were your default 6970 card results?
roughly the same as the 6950 flashed to 6970 ?

i'd like to see if the shaders really are unlocked. can it be read from registers or something? i think GPU-Z is just reading built in data depending on the card IDs

[Hicksetto]

Please check at #29 of me in first 3D11 bench it result from original sapphire bios and original clock too@800/1250MHz, you can checking bios version on GPUZ compare with dos screen it same for old bios is atiflash report.

Thanks, it's great! 150 points means additional shaders are working... Now, last kind request from me; could you please test artifacts with GPUTool stability test at least 15 mins.?

[ZoLKoRn]

I'm back to running 6970 now for checking on stock clock and overclock same as here for 930/1450MHz let to see what happen with it, wait a moment

Edit : i think shaders it working, now i tried running asus card on stock clock it score showed 5004point now (screenshot to come)

Edit2 : Well done ! checking from here with i back to running my asus card at both clock is i tried on sapphire@asus bios from #29

real asus card with stock clock - 5004point (sapphire@asus bios - 4998point from #29)


real asus card with oc@930/1430MHz - 5158point (sapphire@asus bios - 5154point from #33)


so finally i think shaders it really working for unlocked nice one again for AMD !

[zpaf]

@ ZoLKoRn
i'd like to see if the shaders really are unlocked.

Me too

[Alucard-]

I flashed my sapphire 6950 with the asus bios before I really ran any benches but at
900/1350 3dmark 11 went from p5363 to p5470

so it looks like it unlocked and though I was hoping the shaders made a bigger difference.

[easyrider]

I would of thought the extra shaders would of had a bigger impact really.

[Falkentyne]

Sounds great.
But smartdoctor (voltage increase?) isn't working?

What happens if you try the voltage increase? Does the card get any higher clocks on GPU? (even if gpu-z isn't showing it?)

[jeanjean15]

Sounds great.
But smartdoctor (voltage increase?) isn't working?

What happens if you try the voltage increase? Does the card get any higher clocks on GPU? (even if gpu-z isn't showing it?)

No higher clocks even if smortdoctor tell that the voltage is higher.

I conclude that Asus did not test his own software.

So i hope that a new afterburner will be available soon .

[rapin]

ดังใหญ่เลยนะท่าน..อิ..อิ..Good job

[MaxMax77]

did anyone try the sapphire tool called TRIXX to increase voltage on 69xx cards?

[V-FrIeNd]

Good job !!

[Falkentyne]

Ok, another question for OP and anyone else:

If you flash a 6970 (not a 6950) to an ASUS 6970 bios, does the overclock increase or remain the same as before?
(without using Smartdoctor, so, stock volts only).

Zolkorn?

[M3 CSL]

Wow

[7he ]-[0rr0r]

Hello All, this is quick tried with mine ASUS HD6970 Voltage Tweak on stock cooling well for voltage is asus smartdoc can adjust 1.5V max but i'm not sure it can true delivery same as setting because GPUZ and other can't report it, GPUZ only show 1.175V on full load so don't care about it let to see what it can do

Max GPU Clock@1015MHz and Mem@1520MHz


well for other benching i'll try again tomorrow, Thanks

Very nice! what did you use to get past the normal clock speeds too? Was that in the bios flash?

[ZoLKoRn]

Very nice! what did you use to get past the normal clock speeds too? Was that in the bios flash?

Checking here on ASUS Smartdoc and done !


Thanks image from Pyr0