OC3D Review ASUS EAH6970

[tinytomlogan]

The latest variant of the HD6970 comes to us via ASUS. Does their voltage tweak BIOS enable extra performance?

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[Rastalovich]

Something still doesn't seem right. A colleague is still scratching his head here.

But looking at it from my pov, I've seen that issue with using an overclocking tool before. You ramp the slider as high as it'll go and you feel you could take it further - and it just won't allow it. It happened

to me recently using afterburner on a 8400 (which is besides the point), but you feel the 'tool' is being told the up/low limits. Perhaps the bios is the key.

If it were mine (I mean donate to me to play with), I'd delve into the bios fiddling menu like atitool/afterburner has and try and massage the limits. From memory tho, if the tool doesn't know the card's bios, it will limit what you can do. I'd still fiddle with it tho.

This is besides the point tho. Off the shelf, something still aint right to me.

Voltage tweak and a oc limit ? Nah, definitely not.

I hate to harp on about it, but those bios versions from the ref card and this would be interesting. I'm going to see if there's any revisions coming out in the future too.

[lawson]

Nice review Tom

[tinytomlogan]

Originally Posted by lawson

Nice review Tom

If you look dude Bryan wrote it It does say at the top of each review who the author is.

[Pyr0]

i'd like that voltage tweak bios

any chance of a dump please Bryan?

[edit] did you try the "EnableUnofficialOverclocking" feature of Afterburner to get past the limitations of Catalyst Control Center?

[DSV-UltraGL]

finally the ASUS!

man, i need some more info!

1- what is a the max voltage in smart doctor?

2- why didn't you use MSI's AfterBurner for OC;ing? ppl are getting higher clocks with that, max i saw @ stock voltages was 980mhz Core, so maybe up the voltage using Smartdoctor and get to 1Ghz (World FIRST!!) using Afterburner??

3-What are the temps? this one has aluminum cover, wanna see how much this one is cooler! before and after OC please!

i know am asking alot, but am barely holding back waiting for those to be in stock (USA), if no diff than other ones (plastic cover) my wait is over! thanx in advance!

EDIT:damn 19 sec diff pyro!

[Rastalovich]

Originally Posted by Pyr0

i'd like that voltage tweak bios

any chance of a dump please Bryan?

[edit] did you try the "EnableUnofficialOverclocking" feature of Afterburner to get past the limitations of Catalyst Control Center?

OT

I liked Afterburner for a while, but it appears to be selective on cards it likes. I've subsequently reverted to ATITool v0.26 (for the card I was messing with) and it allows changing of limits.

[siravarice]

Really nice review here guys But I would love to see just this versus a 570. Just the two, nothing else, in a big head to head.

For me currently thinking about upgrading, these are the two best performers for the money, is it possible to set up such a test?

[PCTwin]

I don.t suppose you've managed to try RBE on these cards yet.

I know they added prelim support for the 6850/70 series.

Edit

Great effort as always.

[Pyr0]

not sure i'd try using RBE just yet

after dumping the bios with GPU-Z, there's a couple of things RBE doesn't read correctly

could be due to a bad dump or just being mis read