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Pretty pleased to be honest!
Ah, I wasn't aware it was also available there. Not to worry though it was cheaper with m2m. I paid around the same price as a 1GB 6950 for a better cooled 2GB 6970.
Pretty pleased to be honest!
HAve you got it already halk?
Mines on order and should be delivered on monday.
They should arrive tomorrow
M2m emailed me to confirm that. They've had them in stock for about a week, but I wasn't sure if I was going for it... thankfully the price dropped down to just under £215 which gave me the little shove I needed to pull the trigger.
Tomorrow I should have a pair of 6970s in Crossfire
Arived and installed
I hate you!!!
hehe Mine should arrive monday but I`m on nights so wont be able to fit it till wednesday
I spoke too soon. Something is wrong with one of them. When I first fitted it, there was a very noisy rattle, which stopped by the time I'd got the PC to shut down, and didn't sound again. So I powered back up and ran some benches, and so on - got some nice bluescreens thanks to driver mess, sorted that out and decided to find the long crossfire bridge that came with my motherboard and move the cards apart to reduce temps - 80 degrees on one of them.
It's then I noticed one of the fans on one of the cards wasn't spinning, and when I took a closer look... one of the fan blades is twisted nearly completely off.
Looks like one of the cards is dodgy - it might be a blessing in disguise though as running two of them is almost certainly overkill, and it dumps more heat then my near silent fans can cope with without being noisy...
I should say that m2m have been extremely good about it. They replied to any emails I sent within 30 minutes, and they're sorting out picking up the broken card and a refund for it.
One card I think is enough... I've got the afterburner profile for it set up now, under normal use it can't get hot enough for the fan to go above 30% in Afterburner, and it takes a 3D game type load for it to go to 30%, it'll sit at 30% until it gets up to 70 degreesat which point it'll scale up to 100% eventually, however it reaches equilibrium at 77 in Kombustor/Furmark with 120% power set in CCC. When the card is under light use or idle, the fan goes down to 0% in Afterburner. This doesn't actually mean 0% on the card, I think it just means 0% over minimum. At 30% I can't hear it over the other fans in the case, at 0% it is of course silent.
Available for roughly 2 days with maybe a dozen units sold to consumers. Already 2 cards discovered to be faulty. Yours and someone over at overclock.net:
http://www.overclock.net/ati/949283-6950-pcs.html
I was going to get this card but not a lot of difference between that and a GTX570 which is probably a smidgen better in some things. GTX 570 on scan for £251.
My card has been dispatched today so I should have it tomorrow. Alas I am working till wednesday night so wont be able to mess about with it till the weekend
A word of caution if you are looking to get one of these. The supposed 'unlock' Bios switch doe snot appear to work on all the cards. The is a thread on TPU with at least two.
The card is sitting on my bed atm
How do I go about unlocking the bios?
Just plug it in Kopite - it should already be sorted. There's two positions for the switch, I think the unlocked BIOS is where the switch is on the Crossfire connector side.
All plugged in now
Minecraft looks schweet!!! lol
I played a bit of crysis 2 before putting it in and again now and it looks lots shinier now
Have you got the 6970 bios on it yet?
No, I'm not going to either - I don't think it would do anything other than change the memory speeds, which I think mine might disagree with. It's already unlocked and at 880 core.
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