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Can you unlock this card (like the previous 2gb 6950) into a 6970?
The switch is there but there is a comment in the review saying that you can't?
Could it be because its only got 1gb of ram, whereas the 6970 atm has 2gb. Maybe if they released a 1gig 6970 it could work?
There is no 6970 1GB, so you'd have to hack an existing BIOS otherwise you'll have a BIOS claiming twice as much memory as is actually on the card - not a good thing ;) I believe in theory it might be possible, but you'd have to know a lot about the internal workings of the BIOS file to do it. Of course, having the BIOS switch available removes some of the risk, but I believe that some partner 6950 1GB cards are being released without said switch?
Given the lower overclocking headroom, I wonder if these cards are also getting lower-binned chips? That'd be another factor helping AMD shave the asking price without hitting partner profits...
What interests me is that there was a lot of discussion when the 6950 / 6970 came out about their excellent performance at high res and if this meant we'd now hit the point where 2GB of RAM on a reference card actually made sense. These results seem to refute that, which suggests that AMD have simply come up with an architecture that works really well at higher resolutions!
True, some fair points up there.
Most 6950s will reach 920-975 Mhz when volts are raised to stock 6970 volts (1.175m instead of 1.100m)