Friday, December 31st 2010
AMD Revising Radeon HD 6900 Series PCB
AMD is planning a revised Radeon HD 6900 series reference-design PCB. It is reported that the delays which short-supply of TI-made driver-MOSFETs caused have been tided over with, giving AMD the opportunity to redesign the PCB to make use of the more cost-effective yet high-performance VRM circuitry. AMD is reported to have used expensive Volterra-made digital PWM chippery in a last-ditch effort to release the Radeon HD 6900 series in time for the X'mas shopping season, after TI-made VRM components couldn't make it to foundry-partners in time (which caused the launch delay in November, 2010). The redesigned PCB with its new TI-made driver-MOSFETs (DrMOS) could also present an opportunity for AMD to patch the Radeon HD 6950, making stream processor unlocking using BIOS flash impossible, notes the source. This development surfaced after water-cooling major Swiftech announced that it delayed the launch of its Radeon HD 6900 series full-coverage water block because AMD is revising its PCB design.
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33 Comments on AMD Revising Radeon HD 6900 Series PCB
*edit* Oh, it was not you, siqueirah:o Sorry, I misread.
I tried the bios mod and am wondering if we can do another mod just to fool the card into thinking it is a 6970 so it doesn't increase the voltage but allows a 6950 to go past the 840 & 1325 constraint. When I mod to a 6970 my temps idle at about 60c instead of around 40c.
I tried a driver that came out later then the 14 of Dec, seemed to take care of the higher temps.