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damn didnt see the date =)
anywayscongrats on your new card u f%^king rich man =D
it's a 2 gig version.
i'm not 100% sure about non-flashability, maybe there's a way, but i don't think it's as simple as a 'standard' 6950 - it also doesn't have the second bios chip:
sourceWhile the AMD reference design had a Volterra voltage regulator and a dual BIOS switch, MSI has chosen to go without the switch and a CHiL voltage regulator. The CHiL controller is supported in MSI's excellent overclocking software Afterburner, so this shouldn't be a problem. When we tried to unlock the additional shaders to turn this card into a HD 6970, we were out of luck. It seems the ASIC on our test sample has the shaders properly locked, so a BIOS mod is not possible. Whether this is the case for the HD 6950 Twin Frozr II production cards is unknown at this time.
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sourceNow one point we have to mention - with the first revision of the reference models you could flash in a R6970 BIOS into a R6950 graphics card, and get extra shader processors enabled. That trick won't work here as this card is not reference. However, we do wonder a little what would happen if you'd flash an MSI R6970 Twin Frozr II BIOS into this product
Yeah it seems MSI took that BIOS tweak ability away
This is interesting......
I wonder too....? Will have to look around the net to see if it's been done yet.Now one point we have to mention - with the first revision of the reference models you could flash in a R6970 BIOS into a R6950 graphics card, and get extra shader processors enabled. That trick won't work here as this card is not reference. However, we do wonder a little what would happen if you'd flash an MSI R6970 Twin Frozr II BIOS into this product
Anyway I'm glad I got the reference card with the dual BIOS.
Oh and I got you on it being the 2gig version. That's good.
Thanks.
yes it's got two power connectors, at the side of the card, rather than back.
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i think the reference card would have been a tight squeeze in my case. (forgive the pun)
Yeah I just took a gandor at it. The specs are pretty much on par with the reference card all the way round, and as you noted, the extra 10MHz doesn't seem to add anything. Nice card though. Good.
Now all you have to do is run a few games through it to get the enjoyment out of it. I love mine, does what I need it to do, even without the BIOS tweak :)
Hi everyone don't mean to intrude on the 6900series post but just wondering about this score i have on Unigine Engine
Im running a 6870 couldn't wait for the 6900's to come out
so i took a gamble now im a little embaressed hahaha at what im going to show you vs the impeckable specs on everyone else's in here
Unigine
Heaven Benchmark v2.0
FPS:32.5
Scores:819
Min FPS:17.9
Max FPS:65.9
Hardware
Binary:Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release Mar 7 2010
Operating system:Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor
CPU flags:3400MHz MMX+ 3DNow!+ SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE4A HTT
GPU model:AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series 8.831.2.0 1024Mb
Settings
Render:direct3d11
Mode:1680x1050 fullscreen
Shaders:high
Textures:high
Filter:trilinear
Anisotropy:4x
Occlusion:enabled
Refraction:enabled
Volumetric:enabled
Replication:disabledTessellation:normal
Unigine Corp. © 2005-2010
just curious if this card performs like it should or do i need to do more tweaking thanks in advanced
my results are from a different benchmark.
i used the tropics demo (because it was a smaller download) - looks a bit crysis-y, with tropical beaches and palm trees.