6950 flashed to full 6970 bios: Who has had problems or none?

[vollman1]

Curious...

If you flashed a full 6970 bios to your 6950, how has it been holding up?

 

[vollman1]

If you vote for any "killed my card" options, please post the details of what happened and the setting that you were using.

 

[chevy350]

flashed my first one about a year ago and recently flashed it back after purchasing a 2nd for crossfire (which won't unlock) but had no issues at all with the original card

 

[vollman1]

That was a full 6970 bios flash, not just shaders?

What were your OC settings?

 

[chevy350]

full flash and left them at stock 6970 clocks 880/1375 I think is what they were...really wished the 2nd card would have unlocked tho but still doing way better .vs single card

 

[Play3r]

i flashed my vtx3d (powercolor) 6950 pretty much on release and i have had no problems. clocks at 880/1375

 

[MT Alex]

There was a very similar thread started quite awhile back:

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/s...+6970+bios,+how+has+your+6950+been+holding+up

 

[vollman1]

There was a very similar thread started quite awhile back:

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/s...+6970+bios,+how+has+your+6950+been+holding+up

Yep, that was pretty close to the time people started to flash their 6950s and the scare tactics began to try and keep people away from flashing the 6970 bios.

Now after almost a year and a half, it will be interesting to see how many people actually had problems or not.

 

[vollman1]

If you think the flash killed your card, please post details.

 

[cadaveca]

Yep, that was pretty close to the time people started to flash their 6950s and the scare tactics began to try and keep people away from flashing the 6970 bios.

Now after almost a year and a half, it will be interesting to see how many people actually had problems or not.

Memory degraded on my "reference" 6950 modded to 6970. It only took a couple of days running 1475 MHz before it started to act weird.

In the past few days, because of this thread, tried the BIOSes again, card still has issues, but works fine with unlocked shaders and 6950 clocks. I say I tried the BIOSes again, as I found that differnet BIOSes clocked slightly differently, so I did try three different bioses.

In the end, I play BF3 more often than anything else, and the shader unlock barely makes any difference in performance, so I rarely even run the unlocked shader BIOS.

I chose the option "killed my card within two months", as that's the closest to my situation...but the card is definitely not dead yet.

 

[vollman1]

Thanks for the details! So were there artifacts or other problems after the 6970 bios was flashed?

 

[cadaveca]

Thanks for the details! So were there artifacts or other problems after the 6970 bios was flashed?

Yeah, artifacting, general memory stuff, pink dots, stretched textures, etc.


The GPU has no problems running 6970 speeds though.