my fan is set to gradually ramp up to 60% when the card hits 60c using the fan profile settings

Playing bc2 I rarely hit 60c, but I have the card flashed to the unlocked 6950 mod bios for shaders but retains the 1.1 vcore and 1.5vdimm over the 6970's 1.175 and 1.6.

Clocks are 900/1400