6950 to 6970 flash thread

[ZoLKoRn]

I've reinstalled Heaven and the problem (hanging) is gone

Oh yeh.... nice ! and now moving to happy and funny time

[Kenjiwing]

Guess its time to buy some new GPU's.. anyone got some good deals going atm?

[flopper]

Mixed crossfire 6970/6950

[Kenjiwing]

Looks like gigabyte with the $20 mail in rebate for $279 is the best price..

[Bullu$]

Mixed crossfire 6970/6950

Flash the 6950 and post another result with 6970crossfire

[RaZz!]

232 its cheap, which shop ?

http://geizhals.at/eu/a599142.html

i don't know if these shops ship outside of germany though. probably not

[Kenjiwing]

just grabbed 2 gigabytes.. will post results by the end of the week.

[LowRun]

just grabbed 2 gigabytes.. will post results by the end of the week.

I just got back home with one of those Gigabytes, will install that little bugger later tonight, should make a nice upgrade over that aging 1800XL

[flopper]

Flash the 6950 and post another result with 6970crossfire

no can do.
other card artifacts.
waiting for rbe tool and a 6970 unlocked bios with 6950 mem timings which might work.

[Alucard-]

I figured out my artifact problem was that eq aa is not compatible with supersampling aa or leaving the enhance aa setting on . I guess there are still some driver bugs, and a new radeon pro with eq settings would help.

[tool_462]

Picked up 2 Sapphire cards from Amazon. Had a coupon for $50 from PayPal and free Overnight shipping so will post some results tomorrow evening hopefully

[WildstarOCT]

Apparently, they have the same power regulation, and 6x6pin + power from motherboard is about 300w. So it should be fine at 6970 stock clocks at least

Yep, W1zzard added some power consumption tests to the TPU article (http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/...ng/vidcard/159) and modded 6950 + 20% = 252 W. So if ~300 W is the limit, looks like there's some overhead for additional OC beyond 880/1375.

[..::G80::..]

More crysis benchmarks

6970 flash at stock:




6950 at 920/1450 doesn't even touch it:

HD 6950 is 8xAA and 6970 0xAA.

[zaraza]

So has anyone tried flashing a 6850 into a 6870? lol.

[Bullu$]

Yep, but the shaders weren't unlocked...

[andos]

The barts were laser cut.

Remember those reviews of 6850 with 1120 shaders activated with no bios flashing? That's because the 6850 BIOS isn't made to lock those SIMD's, which are laser cut.

[DarthElvis]

Hey guys. I just ran Atitool's artifact scanner on my bone stock 6970 and it artifacts like crazy. It's the scanner, not the card. I guess it doesn't like the 6970's for some reason(I probably left EQAA on or something, though it should not matter if AA is disabled. Anyway, can't be assed to figure it out, - uninstalled). Btw, my card is not faulty, proven again and again by more demanding software than atitool. Atitool is from 2006, I'm surprised it's lasted this long as a diagnostic tool, I guess it's time for the bin finally.

[LowRun]

Just flashed the one i bought earlier today and everything went okay, been only running Unigine Heaven but it's passing with flying colors at 900/1400 with slow fan in it's 6970 clothes. Will test more in the coming days but i'm very happy already

edit: It runs Heaven at 950/1450 with the fan at deafening levels.

[RaZz!]

Hey guys. I just ran Atitool's artifact scanner on my bone stock 6970 and it artifacts like crazy. It's the scanner, not the card. I guess it doesn't like the 6970's for some reason(I probably left EQAA on or something, though it should not matter if AA is disabled. Anyway, can't be assed to figure it out, - uninstalled). Btw, my card is not faulty, proven again and again by more demanding software than atitool. Atitool is from 2006, I'm surprised it's lasted this long as a diagnostic tool, I guess it's time for the bin finally.

thx for the heads-up.

does it artifact like that on a stock 6950 as well?

i've always used atitools for oc testing for both nvidia and ati. it was always the first application to show a too high overclock.
i really don't know if it's a good sign that stock 6970s suffer from artifacts in atitool as well or not though

[STEvil]

I figured out my artifact problem was that eq aa is not compatible with supersampling aa or leaving the enhance aa setting on . I guess there are still some driver bugs, and a new radeon pro with eq settings would help.

quoted for others.


Heaven works best for artifact testing (reliable without influence of AA/etc) i've found.. watch for the hull of the boat early in the benchmark (first couple minutes).

[LagunaX]

Frack the Sapphire 6950's went up to $340+ on Amazon...

No will power, grabbed the $282 HIS 6950...

Will be flashing within a week =)

[sa seba]

I can confirm another xfx 6950 working unlocked to 6970, with 6970 default clocks that is.

[MisterMagoo]

Well I unlocked mine, 20% power increase as stated. 950 core and 1450 memory. No problems so far...except these are the max clocks afterburner and CCP will allow me to run. For some reason SmartDoc wont start (using the ASUS BIOS). Anyone know how to get it going higher?

30min of FurMark @ 950/1450

Edit:blah...huge ass attachment with no thumb = fail

[Elfear]

Two Gigabyte cards unlocked and oced to 925/1400 and running great. I'll test higher clocks later. I ran through a bunch of Stalker: COP benchmarks and it looks like I gain ~5% from the extra shaders and another 13% or so going from 800/1250 to 925/1400.

[japamd]

Well I unlocked mine, 20% power increase as stated. 950 core and 1450 memory. No problems so far...except these are the max clocks afterburner and CCP will allow me to run. For some reason SmartDoc wont start (using the ASUS BIOS). Anyone know how to get it going higher?

30min of FurMark @ 950/1450

Edit:blah...huge ass attachment with no thumb = fail

Holy cow! Is this with fan @ auto??

Even though it's Furmark it's too hot, don't ya?