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I'm using the 10.12a drivers.. But ati see it as 10.11 for some reasons on the version.. what setting are you running for everything?? Have powertune +20? fan at least 50%, 880?? 800??
 
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hi
i have a new problem:
I have a EVGA P55 ftw and it has an additional 12V Molex for the GPU Power-Suppyl.
I tried it but then i have a bit performance loos eg in Furmark.
Any ideas?

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Is DFI still around? I can't imagine so with their grossly over-priced motherboards haha. Lots of unnecessary features that I imagine were more hype than anything else.
 

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Xfx 6950 -> 6970

Upgrade went ok, no artifact or whatever, everything stable.

Furmark went from 5993 to 7166 which looks ok.
3DMark06 went from 17955 to 19514, which looks a little low, in all reviews > 20000.

System is a clean x64 Windows 7
CPU: E8400 @4 ghz
MEM: 8 GB
PSU: 400 W Zallmann

Driver Packaging Version 8.801-101125a-109809C-ATI
Catalyst™ Version 10.12

Power control setting at +20%.

My PSU looks fine because the system is stable at Furmarks Xtreme burning mode @ 1920.
Tested with afterburner, powertune does not kick in. Gpu clock stays at 880 mhz.

Any ideas
 
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Upgrade went ok, no artifact or whatever, everything stable.

Furmark went from 5993 to 7166 which looks ok.
3DMark06 went from 17955 to 19514, which looks a little low, in all reviews > 20000.

System is a clean x64 Windows 7
CPU: E8400 @4 ghz
MEM: 8 GB
PSU: 400 W Zallmann

Driver Packaging Version 8.801-101125a-109809C-ATI
Catalyst™ Version 10.12

Power control setting at +20%.

My PSU looks fine because the system is stable at Furmarks Xtreme burning mode @ 1920.
Tested with afterburner, powertune does not kick in. Gpu clock stays at 880 mhz.

Any ideas

nice, get the trial of 3dmark 11 and see what you get? I have the free trial right now and everything. Yours I think is a little low because of the CPU you are using. Still great numbers I think.
 

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Is DFI still around? I can't imagine so with their grossly over-priced motherboards haha. Lots of unnecessary features that I imagine were more hype than anything else.

No, DFI doesn't exist any more (consumer market). So tell me, what was your problem with DFI? :wtf:
 

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Ive now tried Power control setting +20%, and mine also went OK but I'm getting close results with +0% and +20%, must be my CPU being underpowered :p
Windows7 x64, i3-540@3.7GHz, Mem2GBx2, Catalyst 10.12a Hotfix driver

3DMark 11 Basic v1.01:p4767
Heaven(1920x1080, 8xAA, Fullscreen, Shaders, Textures:high, Filter:trilinear, Aniso16x, Occlusion/ Refraction/Volumetric:enabled, Replication:disabled, Tessellation:extreme ) FPS:26.2 Scores:659 MinFPS:11.0 MaxFPS:73.8

I must note that I went safe and cranked up the fan speed to 59%. Sounded like a hair dryer lol
 

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I think I've seen a review of a 6950 with R0C 6000MHz chips, but that could have been an engineering sample that was lent to the media. Since I dont wanna take my cooler off I dont know which chips I have under my XFX HD6950 (HD-695A-CNFC Ver 1.1), but mine seems to take 6000MHz(1375x4) fine, though I wouldnt want to use it regularly at this clock without checking what chips are used first.

we have the same version XFX card, but for some reason mine won't flash properly...

switch is in the "1" position, card is in the first pcie slot, no other cards present, yet every time i flash it my comp doesn't boot... i have to keep using the backup rom :banghead:

am i doing something wrong? what else could it be?
 

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I'm having a bsod when I am flashing the BIOS with atiwinflash. The program actually freeze for a few seconds, then theres the bsod saying that there is an issue with my display driver (that I'm trying to modify something, not sure here), and then reboot of the machine.
I have a Sapphire, and the only thing that differs from the GPU-z of the article is the driver version. Mine's Catalyst 10.12 (Win7 64): 8.801.0.0. Anyone else with a similar issue??
 

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I'm having a bsod when I am flashing the BIOS with atiwinflash. The program actually freeze for a few seconds, then theres the bsod saying that there is an issue with my display driver (that I'm trying to modify something, not sure here), and then reboot of the machine.
I have a Sapphire, and the only thing that differs from the GPU-z of the article is the driver version. Mine's Catalyst 10.12 (Win7 64): 8.801.0.0. Anyone else with a similar issue??

Nevermind, I removed the PCI-E sata controller card from the motherboard and now atiwinflash works fine, have to reboot to make sure though.
 

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Why did that link to two other URLs before newegg?

fishy..

the first link is supposed to a url-shortener, but then i dunno what happens after that..

either way, please use direct links you can shorten them with the [url= command
 

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Sorry for the off topic, but I'm new here -

Can someone tell me how to turn off the setting that sends me an e-mail every time this thread is updated?
 
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Sorry for the off topic, but I'm new here -

Can someone tell me how to turn off the setting that sends me an e-mail every time this thread is updated?

Under User CP, select "Edit Options" and set "Default Thread Subscription Mode" to "No email notification".

Also, you can click on Thread Tools at the top and select "Unsubscribe from this thread".
 

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Hi!

My Gigabyte card running fine after the unlock got nice scores in 3dmark 11
6950 with 0% power controll... No heat problem after 10 min 99% gpu stress test I had 79 Celsius with normal fan controll (35% fan speed).
Managed to lower the temperature to 69Celsius with MSI Afterburner at 40% fan speed.

Edit: Tested on 880/1375MHz...
 
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When I try to flash my XFX6950 with XFX6970 bios I get the error:

SubSystemID mismatch.

Whjat's causing this and how to solve? I remark that the file I downloaded says .bin, I removed the .bin and removed all dots in the filetitle so it says: XFXHD69702048101203

Anyone?
 

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I modify the original HD6950 BIOS manually to unlock the extra shaders.

I dont have 6950 or 6970, I did the modification for some 6950 users.

Would you like to try? :)

Huh yeah ! Why not post some instructions here, or better still start a new thread and post link here.
This could solve some artefact issues some members are having.

cheers
 

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Huh yeah ! Why not post some instructions here, or better still start a new thread and post link here.
This could solve some artefact issues some members are having.

cheers

^^ This

I've ordered two 6950s and I'd definitely like to try this out. It would make sense that the different timings on the 6970 memory chips would cause the artifacting as most users have decreased their memory clocks to stock 6950 levels after the flashing process and still experience artifacting.
 
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When I try to flash my XFX6950 with XFX6970 bios I get the error:

SubSystemID mismatch.

Whjat's causing this and how to solve? I remark that the file I downloaded says .bin, I removed the .bin and removed all dots in the filetitle so it says: XFXHD69702048101203

Anyone?

Use ATiFlash in DOS. You can use the -fp (force flash) option then. I'd run atiflash -i first to make sure your card is Device 0 (most likely is), but then just do atiflash -fp 0 <biosname>.bin

I flashed both of my 5770s yesterday while both were in the computer with no problem :\

People are overcomplicating this >_> That or it's just because I've used computers for long enough to have needed to use DOS/Command Prompt to do certain things... It's easier than one might think though :)
 

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hi, i have two HIS 6950, i flashed the first with the atiwinflash command on CMD method.. now i want to flash the other one, GPU2.. what is the command to flash the 2nd card ?
 
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