Need help with 6950 UL/OC issue.

[mhenley]

Old card died, couldn't wait any longer for 7xxx series, so I grabbed a MSI R6950 Twin Frozr II from a local store (with internet price matching, of course). Brought it home, read the articles, unlocked the shaders with RBE, then moved to overclocking. She's at 840/1325 right now and showing no signs of issues, other than the fact that I can't move the sliders any more. Oddly enough, I tried flashing with a few different 6970 bioses but they apparently wouldn't take, it always reverted back to my unlocked 6950 bios. I even tried RBE signature import from a few 6970's to increase clock limit, no success.

Any suggestions?

***SOLVED***

Found this article. Tool used for registry hack, how I have headroom to work with.
http://www.techimo.com/forum/graphi...9-enable-higher-overclocks-ccc-reg-entry.html

 

[matteos]

don't run the 6970 bios on it, I know the MSI Twin Frozr are better than the reference but you can still screw up the card within a few weeks due to the higher memory. Do you actually need it higher than that? My card is the same settings and there's nothing it won't play at full speed.

 

[mhenley]

@ matteos - Just trying to juice it up a little more so that I can go from high to ultra on bf3 without dropping below 30fps.

 

[Lord_Exodia]

Mhenley my friend your using the old version of MSI afterburner (2.1.0). For better functionality download the newest version

2.2.0 Beta 8 http://downloads.guru3d.com/MSI-Afterburner-2.2.0-Beta-8_d2799.html

BTW one of my favorite features of afterburner is the on screen display, I suggest you get familiar with it. You can even monitor your video memory usage now.

Anyway how far have you tried to push your card at this point? I bet at 6970 voltage (1.175v) you can surpass 950mhz on the core.

 

[mhenley]

Downloaded the MSI-AB beta shortly after my last post (great minds think alike), and currently tests have me at 6950 stock voltage stable (so far) at 900/1400.