Unlock an AMD 6950 to 6970

Strategist01

Strategist01

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So I thought this might be of interest to all the owners of the AMD Radeon 6950 card:

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/159

It unlocks your card to the 6970 model as AMD have only disabled some cores on the 6950 model. They do this by BIOS locking which can easily be replaced with a BIOS to unlock the extra cards. From what I read on the page you don't need extra cooling as the card is exactly the same as the 6970 - cooling and all.

ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR BIOS BEFORE DOING FLASHING EXPERIMENTS!

Might be useful.
 
I don't know. I don't think AMD have just locked some cores that can just be unlocked, but do tell us if you are able to do so :)
 
Its easy enough on the HD6900 series as the cards have a Hardware Dual Bios switch allowing you to change to the "custom" bios or revert to the factory protected one, negating any risk.
 
Yes, it says so in the article, but I was putting it there as a disclaimer in case anything goes wrong and then no one can blame me. Sorta like "enter at your own risk"
 
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