Still possible to flash a 6950 to 6970?

[Ichy]

Hello fellow community members and Enthusiast,

I was finally able to purchase and install a Asus DCII 6950 2gb graphics card into my system Mid September. I plan to run crossfire, but at the moment I'm only runing 1 card. I chose this card for variouse reasons, one of those reasons was that it was possible to Flash the card to a 6970.

Now, I know that pre August; I had not found any later posts that were relavent to my query, that other owners were still able to flash the card even though the switch no longer functioned to switch for the two bioses.

Thus my question is this, can any one confirm that yes It is still possible to flash a card that was bought roughly the same time as mine?

Also; if the above answer is yes, was it done on a single card system like mine?

Again if yes to the above, If I run into issues and need to flash the stock bios back onto the card, how would I go about doing that? I ask because I haven't come across any threads that realy pertain to this question, and in the few cases's were there was a "close" match, the card in question was already part of a crossfire settup.

thank you for viewing, and thank you for responding in advance.

 

[Mousemonkey]

If thats the case then I could use some main board recomendations. As it stands I can't xfire do to only having 1 pci-e slot for GPU's. Also, i was hoping I could get away with not getting another DCII for crossfire as it takes up 3 more slots for a grand total of 6 unusable slots as well as unusable pci ports 😱. Along with that, Could I get a 1gb DCII and crossfire it with my 2gb DCII; I haven't researched this yet but i'm thinking results wouldn't be favorable?

As for the M/B recomondations. I live in Chile at the moment and the only "top" brands available are Asus, Gigabyte and MSI. I'm using asus now but have used MSI in the past. I worked for a tech company back in the day which used Gigabyte, I'd prefer not to have Gigabyte. I'd prefer asus if I could, but a 990 chip set from the manufacture isn't available here, just the 890. Although out side of being able to use the new "bulldozer" amd chips; what a sad realease that was, I don't see any real advantage over the 890.

If you want motherboard recommendations then start a thread in the motherboard section please.

 

[Ichy]

Sorry Sorry, I'll do that here shortly. Let me edit that part out of my previouse post.

 

[Dogsnake]

AMD says to use to cards that are the same. A 1g card is not the same as a 2g card.

 

[Ichy]

Yeah after a quick search I found numerouse forums stating that if you do combine a 1g and 2g card, the 2g gets bottlenecked to the 1g specifications. On the upside, found that; while not recomended, it is possible to Mix brands when creating a crossfire settup. Just got to make sure that both are overclock to the same settings.

 

[neonneophyte]

... Your attitude is unwarented. using a generic term like "a couple" signifies that it could be 2(TWO) or 3 (THREE) and usually any thing beyond this is specified with an actual number. I understand that your Card is made by sapphire and that it advertises that it has 2 bios and that it comes overclocked already to 6970 speeds. I merely wanted to point out to you that the Asus DCII models have the switch, but do not specifiy if it contains a dual bios settup, but there are claims that it does. Also, if you had read enough of my post you would have infered that I was seeking information form others that had at least the SAME brand of card I did and could at least provide a bit more information than: Yeah I unlocked my card's shaders even though it might not have worked and I didn't have to mess with overclocking as it already came pre-overclocked.

a couple is two. your parents are a couple. a few is three, generally. and several is more.

 

[Dogsnake]

This thread is about over and seems to have gone off topic.

 

[Ichy]

I tend to Ignore people like that, but I do have an update.

Had about an hour or so to work on unlocking the card yesterday and gave it a shot. I downloaded all the software. Saved a copy of the stock bios to a safe location. Loaded up rbe and the Bios, checked the Radial button to switch to 6970 shaders, forced flashed the card; still in Windows 7 at this point, rebooted. Tried to load GPU-Z.. wouldn't open. figured with the bios changed RBE would show that the bios had been flashed with 6970 shaders via the radial button. Took a look, and it was still on the 6950 shaders position.

So my question is this, Did I mess up in trying to flash from RBE in windows instead of booting to DOS and using the ATI_winflash..... command?

I also left the Card's switch in position "1" as I had read else where that this was the position that held the flashable bios.

 

[Dogsnake]

Use WinFlash to flash the bios. RBE is just an editor. WinFlash does not require a command prompt. It runs under windows. I thought all the guides and our discussions were very clear. GPUZ makes the copy to be modded and saved. RBE modifies the bios. WinFlash is used to flash the bios. Follow the guides steps and you will be ok. Don't worry about GPUZ. If the card is working you did not hurt it. So try flashing the bios as recommended. GL

 

[Ichy]

Best answer selected by ichy.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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