Which 6950 can be unlocked

By signing up, you agree to receive the selected newsletter s which you may unsubscribe from at any time. You also agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge the data collection and usage practices outlined in our Privacy Policy. The Sapphire one I linked to will work on all reference design cards from any vendor. Make sure the BIOS switch on the card is set to the 1 position pictured further down if you don't know where it is.

Let the flashing process complete and reboot your system. Check the shader count using GPU-Z , it should show I would do your research before doing this. I read somewhere that the newer batches of 's don't unlock. Sep 12, 0 18, 8. Feb 9, 77 0 18, 0. Oct 30, 4, 0 23, There are very few HD s that are unlockable but you will barely find one.

The unlockable s are reference designed cards, the market now is full of non-reference designed cards which doesn't have the Dual BIOS and unlocking it is a risk. Mar 8, 1, 0 19, First of all, it doesn't have to be a 2GB You can just unlock shaders on it, it's safer that way, and it will perform the same as a with lower clocks Dec 9, 15, 1 57, 1, Sep 27, 0 19, What he said, and afterwards, you can use MSI afterburner to overclock them to levels and beyond.

That said, most cards these days are locked by the ROM or cut shaders. Here is an old guide to unlocking, there may be better guides out there now. If you scroll to the last page, you'll see a couple success with that card, and 1 that failed and after help, managed to get it back to unlocked status. Jun 11, 1, 1 19, 5.

I want to run sli or crossfire for BF3. I keep reading that sli performs better than crossfire. Your Answer: Matthew, Glad to hear you were able to resolve the issue. The i is capable of running AMD cards in Crossfire.

If you have any further questions please contact us again. I think I'm going to go for the toxic 's with dual bios that unlock to a sort of with a flip of a switch.

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You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter W1zzard Start date Dec 26, W1zzard Administrator Staff member. Joined May 14, Messages 23, 3. Looks like Santa brought an extra present for us hardware enthusiasts this year. As detailed in our article , you can safely perform the flashing process from within Windows.

All of them unlocked perfectly and run at HD speeds now. More success reports are compiled into a table at the end of the modding article. Last edited: Dec 26, Joined Mar 25, Messages 9, 2. Joined Jan 18, Messages 24, 4. Recommended Posts. Posted December 27, Looks like Santa brought an extra present for us hardware enthusiasts this year.

Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Ci7 Posted December 27, Billus Posted December 27, Yea, right, sure. I'll believe it when I see some benchies. Yusuf M. Veteran Posted December 27, Ironman Posted December 27,