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MSI Afterburner or Sapphire TriXX, whichever floats your boat. They both have their cons.
For me, I have left the memory clocks at 1400MHz, which seems to be good. You won't get vast improvements from increasing it further, it's at its effective rate. Unless you are going to be doing...
If you are going to be so smart about it, then don't bother. Does it matter if that's the thread title? I'm giving you better options and FACTUAL information regarding why YOU'RE encountering issues. I don't know how old you are, but probably prepubescent.
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It's not surprising. MSI do NOT support hacked BIOS's. If you want it to work and if the chip is supported, add it to the .cfg file. OTHERWISE, FLASH BACK TO THE 6950. Is there any reason why you even are using the 6970 BIOS?
Yup, it's fine as it is now. The only reason I would bump it that high would be if I was on water or attempting to top' in benchmarks. Otherwise, for gaming, leaving it at 950/1450 is perfectly optimal.
Like I said, use RBE. Otherwise, have you tried other voltages or just a vast static 1.3v bump? I've never heard of the BSOD when doing that, ever. What is the BSOD error message? Does the BSOD occur when you click "Apply" or run any 3D applications?
Have you tried going into the Catalyst Control Center -> ATI Overdrive tab -> Changing the "Power Control" setting to 20% and see if that helps with the clocks throttling. Good luck.
Yes. But I wouldn't recommend using Smart Doctor, aesthetic and efficiency sake. You can use MSI Afterburner or RBE (check, verify and confirm you're using the correct voltage variable; either VID3 or VID4).
Yes.
Don't feed incorrect information. Yes it does, long ago as well. You need...
It does. Take a look at 2.1.0 Beta 6. Supports voltage control on the new chips. Although, it seems as if it is only modifying the VID3 voltage variable. But cards ordered after early January should be fine as they are controlled via VID3 as well.
RBE can do this. Although, I'm not sure if they implemented it when they added support for the 69xx cards, maybe check the change log. Otherwise, I suppose you could use something like MSI Afterburner, and create profiles for specific tasks and switch between them (can be set by hotkeys).