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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    Can any 6950 be unlocked, or is it only certain makes/revisions?

    And what exactly does this achieve?

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    Quote Originally Posted by DennisMenace View Post
    Can any 6950 be unlocked, or is it only certain makes/revisions?

    And what exactly does this achieve?
    First revisions only.


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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    Quote Originally Posted by danroyle View Post
    First revisions only.
    So, wait I might not be able to unlock my XFX HD 6950?

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    Quote Originally Posted by Singh400 View Post
    So, wait I might not be able to unlock my XFX HD 6950?
    If it's a second revision card, no.
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    for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    If it has the little bios switch I think you're good to go.

    To echo the moose; only flash for shaders and not memory or GPU clocks to start with.

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    Quote Originally Posted by Terbinator View Post
    If it's a second revision card, no.
    Quote Originally Posted by Domestic_Ginger View Post
    If it has the little bios switch I think you're good to go.

    To echo the moose; only flash for shaders and not memory or GPU clocks to start with.
    I check when I got the card. It has a little switch to move from BIOS #1 and BIOS #2.

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    A little more about the drivers, I've also had no problems and agree with CAT's PEBKAC explanation - I've had friends with tons of cracked software/OS, disabled UAC/Win Update/no AV then they go and blame the hardware/video drivers for stuttering in games the hardware should be able to handle no problem. I imagine lots of the complainers on forums will have a similar position, and if you do a search on either brand you'd find people complaining.
    Basically, don't worry about it.

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    If the flash does not work just flick the switch to the default BIOs
    I have that exact card from scan and it has a little switch on the top

    I haven't tried to unlock mine yet.

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    Installed, with a clean OS. Yeaaaahhh

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    So I've finally unlocked my HD6950 to a HD6970. FYI, I followed this guide.

    The ATI WinFlash utility didn't work for me - I got a "subset ID mismatch" error. I had to follow these instructions to successfully flash a HD6970 ROM.

    After successfully flashing the HD6970 ROM. GPU-Z showed that my shaders, bandwidth, clock speed and etc had all dropped by 90%. This is very bad, and I started to panic.

    But I figured a quick unistall, reboot, re-install and restart of the drivers should fix this - and it did!



    So on the left you see my HD6950 and on the right you see my HD6950 flashed with HD6970 BIOS.

    I'm seeing a 10C increase on load which brings it to 65C. This is on Crysis 2 MP. Which is perfectly acceptable to me.

    I'm happy as Larry

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    I would keep the RAM at HD6950 2GB speeds as most HD6950 2GB cards have slower rated RAM when compared to an HD6970 2GB.

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    I'm using them @6970 speeds from day 1, and I didn't have any issues so far.

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    Quote Originally Posted by Singh400 View Post
    So I've finally unlocked my HD6950 to a HD6970. FYI, I followed this guide.

    The ATI WinFlash utility didn't work for me - I got a "subset ID mismatch" error. I had to follow these instructions to successfully flash a HD6970 ROM.

    After successfully flashing the HD6970 ROM. GPU-Z showed that my shaders, bandwidth, clock speed and etc had all dropped by 90%. This is very bad, and I started to panic.

    But I figured a quick unistall, reboot, re-install and restart of the drivers should fix this - and it did!



    So on the left you see my HD6950 and on the right you see my HD6950 flashed with HD6970 BIOS.

    I'm seeing a 10C increase on load which brings it to 65C. This is on Crysis 2 MP. Which is perfectly acceptable to me.

    I'm happy as Larry

    Nice!

    Still no issues I hope? I will get around to doing this eventually, I've not really seen the need so far the card seems to take everything I throw at it in its stride.
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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    Quote Originally Posted by Zadock View Post
    Nice!

    Still no issues I hope? I will get around to doing this eventually, I've not really seen the need so far the card seems to take everything I throw at it in its stride.
    Nope no issues at all.

    I've decided to remove the current BIOS and replace it with one that will unlock the shaders only leaving the voltage and clocks untouch at HD6950 stock levels. Then I can manually raise the clocks myself without having a high voltage pumped into my card.

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    Small update, flashed a modded BIOS that unlocked the shaders only. Leaving the clocks and voltages at normal/stock HD6950 levels. Temps are back to HD6950 levels.

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    Re: GTX 560 Ti vs HD 6950

    It's the voltage increase that appears to kill some of these cards when flashing to 6970. I bought a HIS 6950 2Gb card for £180 (B clearance) unlocked the shaders and am now looking at a possible overclock if fan noise is low. That way there's far less chance of borking the card. The damn things a brick anyway - they're huge!
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