hd 6870 Unigine Heaven Post your score !

seekermeister said:

This bench is nothing to brag about. No, I've not updated to the latest driver, but I doubt that would help. What would?

I tested my gts450 on the settings as you and got a score of 504. To slightly improve the score you could crank up your clock settings but in real game play life is adjusting the settings going to make much difference? I personally would say no.

max51 said:

sygnus21 said:

What did you do to get your 6950 flashed to the 6970?

Did you have to move the power slider to +20? And how's the fan speed and temps?

Thanks

Hi Sygnus, i hope this info will help. I used the bios flash utility from techpowerup, here is the link with all details for you and i have also included some temps and specs from my system for you. AMD Radeon HD 6950 to HD 6970 Mod | techPowerUp
The temps idle at just over 40c and running MSI Kombustor they have hit 92c.
The variation in the temps is down to the UD5 Motherboard, the 16 pcie slots are very close so the top card gets about 6c hotter.

Thanks for the info max,

I already have the files from TechPowerUp, I've just been hesitant to do the flash because I don't I'm worried about the extra noise and temps it may bring, especially if I have to play with the power tune settings, which I don't really want to have to do.

I notice a lot of people flash the card, than overclock from there; I just want to flash the card and leave it as is - not overclock after the flash.

I do a bit more research and make a decision soon.

Thanks

Fumz said:

Ok sygnus... lol, I'm officially sick of looking at this benchmark. Drivers reverted back to default.


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Well, just know you have a darn good card that can handle anything out now

On the other hand I'm the one looking to flash my card so......

Fumz said:

When you do, I'll be right here waiting to go another round. Flashing vs Precision Tools sounds like another fair fight to me. :)

LOL - Yeah your 570 will like WTF, he's wearing his big brother's shoes



Anyway I'll post results if I do it, though I don't intend to overclock the card, just flash it.

Later.

We'll see. As I said I’m kind of hesitant to flash mines as I like where it's at right now - noise, temps, performance wise. However curiosity is starting to get the better of me now :)

sygnus21 said:

max51 said:

sygnus21 said:

What did you do to get your 6950 flashed to the 6970?

Did you have to move the power slider to +20? And how's the fan speed and temps?

Thanks

Hi Sygnus, i hope this info will help. I used the bios flash utility from techpowerup, here is the link with all details for you and i have also included some temps and specs from my system for you. AMD Radeon HD 6950 to HD 6970 Mod | techPowerUp
The temps idle at just over 40c and running MSI Kombustor they have hit 92c.
The variation in the temps is down to the UD5 Motherboard, the 16 pcie slots are very close so the top card gets about 6c hotter.

Thanks for the info max,

I already have the files from TechPowerUp, I've just been hesitant to do the flash because I don't I'm worried about the extra noise and temps it may bring, especially if I have to play with the power tune settings, which I don't really want to have to do.

I notice a lot of people flash the card, than overclock from there; I just want to flash the card and leave it as is - not overclock after the flash.

I do a bit more research and make a decision soon.

Thanks

Fumz said:

Ok sygnus... lol, I'm officially sick of looking at this benchmark. Drivers reverted back to default.


.

Well, just know you have a darn good card that can handle anything out now

On the other hand I'm the one looking to flash my card so......

You are welcome Sygnus, I have all so read you can just change the shaders to the 6970and leave the voltages and clock speed standard 6950.
Those settings on mine are all standard 6970 with no overclocks and that is what i have done most of my benching on, i have found it is just the new drivers that have made the differnce and overclocking them makes little change to the fps.
And all so i have found that there is not much change in the temps or increased noise. The only time the cards become realy noisy is when you run the benches and push the cards to there max, but other than that they are fine.
I play shift 2 on mine and the max temp was about 70c and fan speed went to about 50%.
I just have to make a few alterations to my case cooling to get more air to that top card, other than that i have had the cards for a while now and have had no problems.