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    7970 DCII voltage locked, how to unlock it?

    Well I inquired with Asus Nordic and they said they are aware of the issue and that it's been forwarded to the BIOS team... But that's the same response that's been given to others before. So most likely we're SoL as Asus is probably not supporting this card actively any more. I went...
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    7970 DCII voltage locked, how to unlock it?

    What causes the extra heat then?
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    7970 DCII voltage locked, how to unlock it?

    I'm not so sure about that. For example when I leave the core at default (925) and only increase voltage, I do get thermal increase (Hit 100c+ with 1.250) However I also get the "stuck at" 1.08v bug whenever I hardlock the system. I think this is because my motherboard might change some...
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    7970 DCII voltage locked, how to unlock it?

    Seems like no gain... Although for some reason I have a lot of vdroop from 1189 to 1.117mV, Coincidence? I mean I can push 1200mhz, starts off fine, but once the vdrop kicks in, so do the artifacts. Alternatively, maybe my PSU is dying... It is starting to get quite old now, and perhaps it...
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    7970 DCII voltage locked, how to unlock it?

    Took a leap of faith and flashed the test bios to my DCII non-top (HD7970-DC2-3GD5) 'lo and behold, voltages unlocked in GPU Tweak! The only problem so far is that DVI Port 2 (the DL/SL variable one) doesn't work. Which is a minor annoyance for now (I used a DVI monitor in the DL slot and...
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