Poll: ALL 6950 and 6970 Owners, What's the current status of your card?

Dave65 · Jan 18, 2011

I can't speak in the pole but my friend got the 6950 and modded it to a 6970 and it has been a nightmare for him with it..he changed the bios back to stock and the card still is not right..Lock ups and tearing in games..

yogurt_21 · Jan 18, 2011

wmblalock said:
Like I said, there were 12 dead cards on my previous poll and a guy who runs a computer shop just had to RMA 17 6950s that customers had flashed with 6970 bioses... add that to your percentage and it seems like an issue to me.

12 out of what and 17 out of what?

they look like big numbers until you compare them to the total. Remember a certain amount of failures happens anyways for every gpu released.

so 12 out of over 100 still isn't that high.

when it comes to retailers you have to count that he simply may have had a bad batch being that he gets them in bulk. even at that I'll bet there was more than 100 he purchased and sold. Depending on his size it could have been more than 300.

arroyo · Jan 18, 2011

We sold them more than 100 till last week and they were from different producers. We never got such amount of failed cards in our history.

1Kurgan1 · Jan 18, 2011

yogurt_21 said:
12 out of what and 17 out of what?

they look like big numbers until you compare them to the total. Remember a certain amount of failures happens anyways for every gpu released.

so 12 out of over 100 still isn't that high.

when it comes to retailers you have to count that he simply may have had a bad batch being that he gets them in bulk. even at that I'll bet there was more than 100 he purchased and sold. Depending on his size it could have been more than 300.

I can count the amount of people with 2 fingers that I know that have ever flashed anything. And I have a lot of friends that are into computers. It's just a scarey though and most never felt it was worth it because of situations like this.

And I go to school for graphic design where we constantly use comps, yet seems in this town of 80,000 very little know anything about computers. I doubt 12 or 17 people in this city even own a 6950, well maybe, but I doubt more than 100 do, and out of that 100, I highly doubt 10 to 20% would be flashing them or capable of doing so if that many had owned them.

I would assume that in almost any scenario, especially from local shops even carrying those, very few sales, very large return.

DJManiac · Jan 18, 2011

XFX6950 @ ASUS 6970 @ 960/1500 @ 1250 mV and NEVER had any problems...

Not a single artifact or tearing while Testing, Gaming and normal PC life

Only "problem" was that I gave to much GPU clock one time without more VGPU... And the Driver did a self reset! But hey - that is more than normal if you want to find the max GPU clock for the given VGPU....

But if I read all the threads here (especially: How to enable additional shaders on Radeon HD 695...) there are many newbies in flashing and modding in the streets...
To many reviews and test in the net regarding this... So "everyone" wants to save money and go for the very first time for a flash... This is dangerous! Of course!

bpgt64 · Jan 18, 2011

3 weeks in, no issues, and I was working(light load 8 hours a day) and gaming (heavy load) 6 hours a day all last week working from home. Hell I even pushed one of my 6950s to 950/1400 for a 3dmark run P5500ish.

PopcornMachine · Jan 18, 2011

bpgt64 said:
3 weeks in, no issues, and I was working(light load 8 hours a day) and gaming (heavy load) 6 hours a day all last week working from home. Hell I even pushed one of my 6950s to 950/1400 for a 3dmark run P5500ish.

I just did that last night after a lot of trial and error. You can see here: NEW - 3DMark 11 Compilation

Had to use 1.265 core voltage, which seems like a lot. But I'm new to card overvolting.

What voltage did you use?

bpgt64 · Jan 18, 2011

Stock volts have to check when I get home..

PopcornMachine · Jan 18, 2011

bpgt64 said:
Stock volts have to check when I get home..

wow...mine doesn't want to clock that high without extra volts...going to check again later as well...

yogurt_21 · Jan 18, 2011

1Kurgan1 said:
I can count the amount of people with 2 fingers that I know that have ever flashed anything. And I have a lot of friends that are into computers. It's just a scarey though and most never felt it was worth it because of situations like this.

And I go to school for graphic design where we constantly use comps, yet seems in this town of 80,000 very little know anything about computers. I doubt 12 or 17 people in this city even own a 6950, well maybe, but I doubt more than 100 do, and out of that 100, I highly doubt 10 to 20% would be flashing them or capable of doing so if that many had owned them.

I would assume that in almost any scenario, especially from local shops even carrying those, very few sales, very large return.

numbers are plausible 100/80000 is probabally a good range. so a 17% failure rate does seem a bit high, but as I said that could have been explained by a bad batch, especially if your area volumes are that low.

which if you take your ratio by the valley of the sun there would be 10000 sold and I'd think I'd hear about 1700 gpu's being returned in the valley. I have more retailer freinds here than your estimated 6950's sold in duluth.

dom99 · Jan 18, 2011

current status of my card:

VTX3D HD 6950 using (W1zzards script) shader unlocked bios
Clocks are 880MHz core and 1375MHz memory, on stock voltage 1.1V
Overclocking via Sapphire Trixx
All stable so far, benchmark results 3Dmark 11, P5019, Graphics score 4869 (i7 920 @ 2.67MHz)

I wouldnt flash to the 6970 bios but I would think it safe to unlock the extra shaders, then overclock as usual

manofthem · Jan 19, 2011

DJManiac said:
XFX6950 @ ASUS 6970 @ 960/1500 @ 1250 mV and NEVER had any problems...

Not a single artifact or tearing while Testing, Gaming and normal PC life

Only "problem" was that I gave to much GPU clock one time without more VGPU... And the Driver did a self reset! But hey - that is more than normal if you want to find the max GPU clock for the given VGPU....

But if I read all the threads here (especially: How to enable additional shaders on Radeon HD 695...) there are many newbies in flashing and modding in the streets...
To many reviews and test in the net regarding this... So "everyone" wants to save money and go for the very first time for a flash... This is dangerous! Of course!

Those numbers look good. What programs are you using to OC and raise voltage?

I was using MSI AB with no problems with a modest OC, 900/1375@1.18v. Then I went to trixx and rbe, but thy didn't work for me. I might try what you are using; it can't be any worse than my night last night.

Ecto Plasma · Jan 22, 2011

No problems after over 3 weeks with the card overclocked to CCC limits. Stress testing in Crysis and Furmark and 3D Mark have not had any problems.

DJManiac · Jan 22, 2011

manofthem said:
Those numbers look good. What programs are you using to OC and raise voltage?

I was using MSI AB with no problems with a modest OC, 900/1375@1.18v. Then I went to trixx and rbe, but thy didn't work for me. I might try what you are using; it can't be any worse than my night last night.

I use

- RBE for VGPU - VID4 (GPU Register Button) 1250 mV (Some reported that for them VID3 was the Number!)
- Afterburner for FAN curve
- ATI Tray Tools for OC

Keep Temp always under 80°C - That was the key for me to reach higher clocks...

searingmage · Jan 23, 2011

Ecto Plasma said:
No problems after over 3 weeks with the card overclocked to CCC limits. Stress testing in Crysis and Furmark and 3D Mark have not had any problems.

You using 6950 or 6970? Or 6950 with unlock shaders?
Btw, overclock to CCC limit need to increase voltage?

cookiemonster · Jan 23, 2011

Hi XFX 6970, 3 weeks old and no problems so far

manofthem · Jan 23, 2011

DJManiac said:
I use

- RBE for VGPU - VID4 (GPU Register Button) 1250 mV (Some reported that for them VID3 was the Number!)
- Afterburner for FAN curve
- ATI Tray Tools for OC

Keep Temp always under 80°C - That was the key for me to reach higher clocks...

I may need to give RBE another shot. I'd like to try to get some of your numbers. I have an XFX too. Should I try switching back to a 6970 bios and OC from there? Or is it really safer with a modded 6950 bios? Thanks man

searingmage · Jan 24, 2011

Funny that so many people voted that they have problem with 6970 bios at techPowerUp! Forums - View Poll Results yet only 2 voted they had problem with 6970 bios here..

davetheshrew · Jan 24, 2011

first flash here, still no problems, 6970 bios @ 950/1450

f0d · Jan 24, 2011

searingmage said:
Funny that so many people voted that they have problem with 6970 bios at techPowerUp! Forums - View Poll Results yet only 2 voted they had problem with 6970 bios here..

thats because alot of people had knee-jerk reactions and voted yes because they had driver bugs
i diddnt vote yes this time in the poll because i had figured out it was driver bugs

the reason this poll was started again is because people voted wrong in the first place

manofthem · Jan 24, 2011

f0d said:
thats because alot of people had knee-jerk reactions and voted yes because they had driver bugs
i diddnt vote yes this time in the poll because i had figured out it was driver bugs

the reason this poll was started again is because people voted wrong in the first place

I ran the 6970 bios fine and stable for a week, but then I switched because of the reports of problems. With the 6970 bios, how far can it be OC'd without voltage increase? Anyone know? I'm going to try again with the 6970 bios.

DJManiac · Jan 25, 2011

manofthem said:
I may need to give RBE another shot. I'd like to try to get some of your numbers. I have an XFX too. Should I try switching back to a 6970 bios and OC from there? Or is it really safer with a modded 6950 bios? Thanks man

Dont know - Some reported problems - But I did not had a single prob with 6970 bios on XFX 6950...

You have to find it out for yourself and your card... Every card is different...

Most important is to keep card under load under 80°C...

manofthem · Jan 25, 2011

DJManiac said:
Dont know - Some reported problems - But I did not had a single prob with 6970 bios on XFX 6950...

You have to find it out for yourself and your card... Every card is different...

Most important is to keep card under load under 80°C...

I went ahead and flashed the 6970 bios. It runs fine for now. It's pretty much the same clocks as I was using on the other modded bios. I played Crysis for a while, and temps never got above 53*C so that's safer. I'll keep an eye on it and post later with any problems, if any

spier1968 · Jan 27, 2011

My Sapphire 6950 (2GB) with 'shaders enabled only' mod is running fine after 2 weeks (GPU@840, MEM@1280, no voltage tweak)

1Kurgan1 · Jan 27, 2011

So looking at these charts, it seems, that for the most part the 6950's are pretty reliable even when flashed or shader enabled.

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Memory	32 GiG Team Group B Die 3600
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Power Supply	Corsair RM 750
Mouse	EVGA
Keyboard	Corsair Strafe
Software	Windows 10 Pro

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Motherboard	MSI Z590 Pro Wifi
Cooling	Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 4, 9x aigo AR12
Memory	32GB GSkill TridentZ Neo DDR4-4000 CL18-22-22-42
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Storage	1TB MX300 M.2 OS + Games, + cloud mostly
Display(s)	Samsung 40" 4k (TV)
Case	Lian Li PC-011 Dynamic EVO Black
Audio Device(s)	onboard HD -> Yamaha 5.1
Power Supply	EVGA 850 GQ
Mouse	Logitech wireless
Keyboard	same
VR HMD	nah
Software	Windows 10
Benchmark Scores	no one cares anymore lols

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Motherboard	Asrock 880G@890GX
Cooling	Thermalright 120 Xtreme (lapped)
Memory	A-Data 1600 Plus
Video Card(s)	Asus HD6950 unlocked - WOW
Storage	many more than you can imagine
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Case	Fractal Define R3
Audio Device(s)	X-Fi Music / onboard
Power Supply	Seasonic M12D 850W
Software	viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware, adware, rootkits
Benchmark Scores	2.3 promile of alcohol in my blood and still standing

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Motherboard	MSI x99 SLI Plus \| AsRock Z77 Pro 3
Cooling	Watercooled
Memory	16GB DDR4 2400 @ 2666 \| 12GB DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	AMD R9 290x \| MSI 5850 OC
Storage	128gb SSD + 2x 2TB \| 2TB
Display(s)	Asus 27" LCD \| 25" Hanns G
Case	CM Storm \| CM Elite 430
Audio Device(s)	Creative Recon 3D PCIe
Power Supply	Enermax Galaxy 1250W \| Rosewill 630w
Mouse	Logitech G700s \| Logitech G100s
Keyboard	Logitech G901 \| Logitech G105
Software	Win 8.1 Ultimate x64 \| Win 8.1 Ultimate x64
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Motherboard	X570 TUFF GAMING PLUS
Cooling	EKWB Custom Loop, Lian Li 011 G1 distroplate/DDC 3.1 combo
Memory	4x16GB Corsair DDR4-3466
Video Card(s)	MSI Seahawk 2080 Ti EKWB block
Storage	2TB Auros NVMe Drive
Display(s)	Asus P27UQ
Case	Lian Li 011-Dynamic XL
Audio Device(s)	JBL 30X
Power Supply	Seasonic Titanium 1000W
Mouse	Razer Lancehead
Keyboard	Razer Widow Maker Keyboard
Software	Window's 10 Pro

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Processor	i6 6600K
Motherboard	GIGABYTE Z170X UD3
Cooling	Thermaltake Frio Silent 14
Memory	16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB)
Video Card(s)	ASUS Strix GTX 970
Storage	Mushkin Enhanced Reactor 1TB SSD
Display(s)	QNIX 27 Inch 1440p
Case	Fractal Design Define S
Audio Device(s)	On Board
Power Supply	Cooler Master V750
Software	Win 10 64-bit

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Motherboard	Asus Z87M-PLUS
Cooling	High Pressure Fan System
Memory	24GB DDR3 2400MHz
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Storage	256GB Samsung 830, 500gb WD Blue 7200rpm
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Case	Silverstone Sugo SG10B
Power Supply	Antec TP-750
Software	Windows 10

Processor	3900X @ 4.0
Motherboard	Asus ROG Strix X570-E
Cooling	DeepCool Castle 360EX
Memory	G Skill Trident Z Neo 32GB 3600
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Storage	Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB
Display(s)	LG 34UC88
Case	Thermaltake P3
Power Supply	Super Flower Leadex III 750w
Mouse	Logitech G900
Keyboard	G Skill KM570 MX Silver
Software	Windows 10 Pro

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Cooling	Corsair H110iGT
Memory	16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 @ 2400Mhz
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Case	Antec P280
Audio Device(s)	Onboard.
Power Supply	800W Fractal Design Newton Platinum Plus
Mouse	Razor Abyssuss
Keyboard	Logitech G19s
Software	Winows 10 Pro x64

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Cooling	Noctua Intel/AMD NH-D15 Silent CPU Cooler
Memory	Corsair 32GB ( 4x8) DDR4 Vengeance LPX 3000MHz Memory
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Case	NZXT Phantom 410 Black Orange Special Edition
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Power Supply	Corsair RM1000
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Cooling	Scythe Mugen rev B.
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Case	CoolerMaster Storm Sniper Black Edition
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
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Software	WIN7 Ultimate X64

Poll: ALL 6950 and 6970 Owners, What's the current status of your card?

What is the current status of your 6950 or 6970 card?

My stock 6950 was defective

My stock 6950 has no problems

My stock 6970 was defective

My stock 6970 has no problems

My 6950 flashed with a 6970 bios became defective

My 6950 flashed with a shader modded only 6950 bios became defective

My 6950 flashed with a 6970 bios has no problems after 1 week

My 6950 flashed with a 6970 bios has no problems after 2 weeks

My 6950 flashed with a 6970 bios has no problems after 3 weeks

My 6950 flashed with a 6970 bios has no problems after 4+ weeks

My 6950 flashed with a shader modded only 6950 bios has no problems after 1 week

My 6950 flashed with a shader modded only 6950 bios has no problems after 2 weeks

My 6950 flashed with a shader modded only 6950 bios has no problems after 3 weeks

My 6950 flashed with a shader modded only 6950 bios has no problems after 4+ weeks

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