Quote Originally Posted by Falkentyne View Post
I thought that the Asus BIOS disables powertune completely on all their cards, isn't that right? Isn't what that translated review said? And they said with the modded BIOS, they had problems with powertune throttling the card?

Maybe that's why the temps are lower?
Interesting - is this confirmed?

If so, there is no advantage at all to buying a HD6970 and it can be considered physically identical to a HD6950 in all respects.