Quote Originally Posted by twistedneck View Post
You were correct all along, the modded 6950 bios was the trick. runs flawless now - so far up to 860 core and 1325 memory on stock msi 6950 voltage. Must have been some other setting in the 6970 bios that locked it - like mem or clocks too high, voltage too high, etc.. ideas?

Again, thanks Oztopher!

Here is the link i used for the 6950 mod bios

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpo...&postcount=381
Tried it again and same results.... it stutters and frames drop in benchmarks.