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How to enable additional shaders on Radeon HD 6950

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Yes, that is why it is not throttling back to lower clocks. Well, you do not NEED to, it only serves the purpose of maximizing your performance with benchmarks. Read it properly next time or research.
 
My temps exceed 100 degrees so I decided to flash my bios back to 6950 but I didnt save my original bios. So what should I do? Can I just download 6950 bios a run Winflash, load the bios and flash it back to 6950?
 
Quick question, how do I stop getting emails from people replying to this thread, its filling my inbox?
 
dom99 said:
Quick question, how do I stop getting emails from people replying to this thread, its filling my inbox?
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Click on thread tools up the top and unsubscribe.

@bobesko, thee should have been a backup made in the winflash directory.
 
dom99 said:
Quick question, how do I stop getting emails from people replying to this thread, its filling my inbox?
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Quick links @ top right--> Edit options--> Messaging & Notification--> Then under "Default Thread Subscription Mode" there is a drop down box ;)
 
bobesko said:
My temps exceed 100 degrees so I decided to flash my bios back to 6950 but I didnt save my original bios. So what should I do? Can I just download 6950 bios a run Winflash, load the bios and flash it back to 6950?
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Yes, you can do that. If you want your actual "original" BIOS, you can always switch to the "2" position, which is the read-only BIOS, and when you boot up, save that BIOS on your computer. Then prepare the flashing tools and what not and use the BIOS you had just saved, but don't flash it just yet, switch it to the "1" position now and then precede to flash.

:)
 
telafidium said:
Powercolor 6950 successfully flashed to 6970 but having stability problem, no artifacts.

awwh man, even at 800/880 clocks with 1375 memory, it still crashes :(

I'm starting to think I got a dud card...
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When overclocking its best to see how far the core will go before the memory I find, so set you memory back down to 1250 and crank up the core from there, then when hit the max settings where stable start pushing memory
 
DJManiac said:
My tip is: Take the time and read the whole thread! The are so many infos in so many post....

If you ask for tips everone will say something different...
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I've read most of it but thanks.
What I needed was specific tips for Asus card from Asus users as our friend just did.
 
I plan to take one 6950 in monday.

So the best option that I find so far is to:
1. Take the bios from 6950,
2. With RBE increase voltage to Ex: 1.175 on that bios,
3. With TPU unlocker from W1zz unlock the sp and update the bios to your card,
4. Use MSIA or trixx* to make custom fan preset and overclock to your desired clock(Ex: 930/1325).

So is this right or there is better option??

Like to use 6970 bios and only decrease the memory clock(I'v heard that 1375 is maybe to much for 6950)

*With my 6870 trixx lags on some of the benchmarks, but when I close it it's all fine.
 
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itsdanny said:
Constantly? Then that means it isn't throttling and lets say you've either set CCC's Power Control at 20% or using a 3rd-party app that is causing that.
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Afterburner with "unofficial overclocking" will cause that. Power Control being at +20% will not do that, I use Trixx and my Power Control at +20% and it goes through all its 2D lower clock settings like stock.
 
dulemk said:
Like to use 6970 bios and only decrease the memory clock(I'v heard that 1375 is maybe to much for 6950.
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1375 shouldn't be too much. I've been running 1375 for a while, maybe 2-3 weeks, and the GPU clock at 900-930. I raised the voltage to 1.18 so it could run. I think right now I've been keeping it at 900/1375, and it's been solid in benching and gaming.
 
manofthem said:
1375 shouldn't be too much. I've been running 1375 for a while, maybe 2-3 weeks, and the GPU clock at 900-930. I raised the voltage to 1.18 so it could run. I think right now I've been keeping it at 900/1375, and it's been solid in benching and gaming.
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So by your experience what do you think it is the best option to do?

Use 6950 unlocked bios and oc it (with increasing voltage in rbe first);
Or just using 6970 bios.


wmblalock said:
Afterburner with "unofficial overclocking" will cause that. Power Control being at +20% will not do that, I use Trixx and my Power Control at +20% and it goes through all its 2D lower clock settings like stock.
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Do you have any problem with trixx??
Because with my 6870 trixx lags on some of the benchmarks, but when I close it it's all fine.
 
dulemk said:
So by your experience what do you think it is the best option to do?

Use 6950 unlocked bios and oc it (with increasing voltage in rbe first);
Or just using 6970 bios.

Do you have any problem with trixx??
Because with my 6870 trixx lags on some of the benchmarks, but when I close it it's all fine.
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I've been using the 6950 modded bios with 1536 shaders instead of the 6970 bios, due to the problems other have run into.

For my setup, MSI AB has worked better than Trixx and RBE. I bumped the voltage slightly using MSI AB to 1.18 when gpu clocks at 930, now only 1.15 using 900/1375, and setting up a custom fan curve in AB. Everything runs great, just played BBC2 for about an hour at a solid 60fps, never getting above 51*C with fan @58%.

I tried Trixx to OC and RBE to bump voltage, but I couldn't get it to run right: constant crashes, lockups, problems. But many have had great success with it, bumping voltage to 1.2xx and hitting 965/14xx something like that. Perhaps I needed to mess with it more...

Edit:Trixx worked fine to OC for me. The problem was when I tried to raise voltage in RBE and OC higher with Trixx. It was likely my inexperience with RBE that resulted in problems.
 
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wmblalock said:
Afterburner with "unofficial overclocking" will cause that. Power Control being at +20% will not do that, I use Trixx and my Power Control at +20% and it goes through all its 2D lower clock settings like stock.
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Yes, that's why I mentioned "using a 3rd-party app that is causing that". And well, yes it can. Try not using any 3rd-party apps, uninstall them all, reboot, and then use CCC's Power Control. And his was set at 20% any way, and it doesn't seem like he was running any 3rd-party apps.
 
Remember all cards are not the same. While most 6950 cards use T2C mem chips which are rated at 1250Mhz, there are a few 6950 cards that use the R0C, the chips used on the 6970. Those really lucky folks should have no problems running 1375, while 6950s with the T2C chips are always at a risk. Some T2Cs might not fail at 1375 but some will, especially those with insufficient cooling. I'd stick to 6950 modded bios and overclock only the core, 1250 is good enough and far less risk.
 
SoCalRailRoader said:
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You listen to me, Bobby Boucher. Facebook is the Devil!!!

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manofthem said:
You listen to me, Bobby Boucher. Facebook is the Devil!!!

No, I just never really wanted or needed it. And to make it worse, I don't really care for the guy who played in The Social Network.
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Little advice...

Thread is about "How to enable additional shaders on Radeon HD 6950".
You may want to get back on track, before a Mod puts it back.
You can go here to discuss likes, dis-likes and the foibles of FaceBook.

Just saying.:)
 
95Viper said:
Little advice...

Thread is about "How to enable additional shaders on Radeon HD 6950".
You may want to get back on track, before a Mod puts it back.
You can go here to discuss likes, dis-likes and the foibles of FaceBook.

Just saying.:)
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Yep, I know, I've been posting on forums for a long time ;) :D
 
I'm gonna go out and be the first to say it I guess....

I have a Gigabyte 6950, I am still using the ASUS 6970 bios, I have my mem clocks @ 1250, but I have been using the card for 6+ hours gaming every day since I flashed it maybe 3 weeks ago. I have no artifacting issues.

I am confident at this point my card will not suffer a horrible death from using the 6970 bios. Also keep in mind I have a nasty fan curve that keeps my card @ 36 idle and the fan hits 100% @ 70c.
 
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