6950 to 6970 flash thread

[VIP3R]

xfx6950 flashed to asus 6970 bios, been gaming with it for the last 4 hours stable at 950/1450 cant go higher cause of CCC limits.

[Sebastione]

I noticed that i get some strange dot artefacts in Crysis Warhead especially when there are a lot of trees like in the ambush map. Unfortunately this happens regardless of clocks. So some shaders must be broken.
The effect is pretty minor though, so I will keep the card.

[Oztopher]

I noticed that i get some strange dot artefacts in Crysis Warhead especially when there are a lot of trees like in the ambush map. Unfortunately this happens regardless of clocks. So some shaders must be broken.
The effect is pretty minor though, so I will keep the card.

Don't worry, i got that on my 4890 too, as well as my 6950.

Well, i flashed the modded ASUS 6950 BIOS with higher shaders, and no more artifacts in ati tool! Seems it's the best way to do it. But also, smart doctor now works

Scaling seems sort of poor though. To get 1000mhz i need 1.26v to at least finish the benchmarks. 1.24v crashed in crysis after 2 loops, but 1.26v passed all loops plus another 3 loops at 1920x1080. With stock 6970 vgpu (1.175v), that gets me to 975 benchable, so my card needs about another 0.1v for 25mhz...

[Sebastione]

Believe me these errors dissappear once i revert back to 1408 shaders.
Still no major issue for me though.

[Sebastione]

Notice the yellow dot?

http://img526.imageshack.us/f/frame000096.jpg/

http://img23.imageshack.us/i/frame000637.jpg/

Anyone else affected maybe ?

[Sebastione]

Do you have a link for this modded Asus Bios of yours?

[BababooeyHTJ]

Notice the yellow dot?

http://img526.imageshack.us/f/frame000096.jpg/

http://img23.imageshack.us/i/frame000637.jpg/

Anyone else affected maybe ?

I'm getting them too but only with AA, clock speed doesn't seem to make a difference. I also saw this with my 6870 so I'm pretty sure that it's a driver bug. I also noticed that you can't force AA driverside in 10.12 WHQL in Crysis DX10/9. I wouldn't worry about it too much. I'm going to flash back and see if I still see this, the ATITool artifacts, and Super Meat Boy which is worse than it was on my 6870.

Ok, so I shutdown my computer and flipped the switch and I'm still seeing this Dots in Crysis on High but like before only with AA. I am no longer seeing those artifacts in Atitool which I also never saw on my 6870. In super Meat Bot the artifacts aren't anywhere near as bad either, it's the same thing that I saw on my 6870 now. I'm going to have to try this moddified 6950 bios now. If anyone has a link that would be great.

If anyone with a real Sapphire 6970 wants to run Atitool it would be great to know if that shows artifacts too.