6950 to 6970 flash thread

[vern]

HD6950

flash BIOS Unlocked

[zaraza]

My xfx flashed and works. the only thing is is that do you guys also get a small coil sound? its not big, but sometimes audible. i dont know

[Sebastione]

There is currently no way to change the voltage on these card is there ?

[Delly]

There is currently no way to change the voltage on these card is there ?

try this...

http://www.mediafire.com/?21z9nzv7bkjldiy#2

[Budwise]

My xfx flashed and works. the only thing is is that do you guys also get a small coil sound? its not big, but sometimes audible. i dont know

I get the same thing with my XFX.

[WildstarOCT]

Me too under heavy load. Kind of a whiney sound. It happened on my 4890 (which I beat the crap out of and it still works fine) so I'm not going to worry.

[Sebastione]

Thanks for the link but changing Vcore doesnt work.

[Oztopher]

Yeah same, slider was greyed out.

So close to 6k!

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/309688;jsess...7nu79782hDYw8z

975/1475

[Neova]

Have 2x HIS 6950s here.. Finally working in basic mode after full OS reinstall. GRRRr................. Will advise what I can do soon.

[gr8golf]

No problems flashing a Sapphire. Will install tonight to OC and check stability.

[Mrazaq]

This bios works with Asus smartdoctor (not afterburner though), thus enabling voltage control I flashed it to my Powercolor 6950 and am currently running at 960/6000MHz with 1.23v, the temps are getting quite bad tho, 95 degrees in Furmark with the fan @ 60%.

[MisterMagoo]

This bios works with Asus smartdoctor (not afterburner though), thus enabling voltage control I flashed it to my Powercolor 6950 and am currently running at 960/6000MHz with 1.23v, the temps are getting quite bad tho, 95 degrees in Furmark with the fan @ 60%.

What BIOS is that? Also what are the max temps for these things? I cant find any sheets on them.

[Mrazaq]

What BIOS is that? Also what are the max temps for these things? I cant find any sheets on them.

It's apparently a modified Asus bios which was posted in the review @ Pctuning.cz

[MisterMagoo]

It's apparently a modified Asus bios which was posted in the review @ Pctuning.cz

Do you have a link? Sounds fun

Edit here we go translated :http://translate.google.com/translat...otreba&act=url

Gunna check it out.

[Mrazaq]

Do you have a link? Sounds fun

Edit here we go translated :http://translate.google.com/translat...otreba&act=url

Gunna check it out.

Posted it in my previous post - http://hotfile.com/dl/92273320/0a6d6...nlock.bin.html

[SBB]

HIS 6950 here using HIS 6970 BIOS.

Working 100% rock solid at 940mhz core/1400mhz mem

[MisterMagoo]

Posted it in my previous post - http://hotfile.com/dl/92273320/0a6d6...nlock.bin.html

Lol...you gotta understand people hesitant to just flash some random bin without knowing where it came from.

Anyways it didnt work for me, SmartDoc started up and I was able to set voltage but it made no difference and GPUz didnt show any rise.

[zaraza]

best way to test memory overclock? what do you guys use

[Gaul]

[Mrazaq]

Posted it in my previous post - http://hotfile.com/dl/92273320/0a6d6...nlock.bin.html

Lol...you gotta understand people hesitant to just flash some random bin without knowing where it came from.

Anyways it didnt work for me, SmartDoc started up and I was able to set voltage but it made no difference and GPUz didnt show any rise.

It doesn't show the right voltage in GPU-Z, but it works. I tried setting a voltage of 1.1v and Furmark crashed almost instantly, Runs fine @ 1.23v.

[MisterMagoo]

It doesn't show the right voltage in GPU-Z, but it works. I tried setting a voltage of 1.1v and Furmark crashed almost instantly, Runs fine @ 1.23v.

When I tried, even up to 1.25v I couldnt get any higher core speeds than I could on the stock voltage. I am 960/1525 on default vcore. I will just have to wait for RBE to get updated.

[flopper]

Used wizzard the techpowerup guys batchfile to lock up shaders only on my 6950 bios.
all my artifacts are gone doing that.
None in desktop and none running benches.
870mhz seems to be limit due to to low vcore now on the cards.
so, success.
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpo...&postcount=381

[-R8-]

HD6950

flash BIOS Unlocked

WOW !
Very nice .

[Retro]

Here's a congrats to you AMD guys for this 6950 to 6970 bios flash.
Not too bad of a deal, 300 bucks or so for a 6950, flash it to a 6970, and you can whup the 480.
Tempted to pick one up myself

[vern]

Here's a congrats to you AMD guys for this 6950 to 6970 bios flash.
Not too bad of a deal, 300 bucks or so for a 6950, flash it to a 6970, and you can whup the 480.
Tempted to pick one up myself

Do it
But keep in mind that the HD 6950 has only two 6-pin connectors . It can be at risk of capacity overload .