The 560 Ti, will the 6950 unless you are running massive resolutions. Remember unlocking to a 6970 will void your warranty and I would not recommend doing it, because there is a reason it is a 6950 and not a 6970. However you can overclock the 6950 manually, which is imho much better than unlocking it.
OC3D Review Gigabyte GTX560 Ti SOC
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The 560 Ti, will the 6950 unless you are running massive resolutions. Remember unlocking to a 6970 will void your warranty and I would not recommend doing it, because there is a reason it is a 6950 and not a 6970. However you can overclock the 6950 manually, which is imho much better than unlocking it.
edgari0kas
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i doubt it will void your warranty when you have dual bios switch . it is there for a reason , also there nothing stated on warranty that you cant unlock it as i am aware.
point is 560 soc is to expensive.
point is 560 soc is to expensive.
SieB
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I have seen a couple of people on other forums who have bricked their 6950s after flashing the BIOS to a 6970, but apparently it was only after they did that and tried overclocking them further. I don't know if it would happen if you just flashed the BIOS and didn't OC further but i'd say just play it safe and get a 560 which has loads of overclock headroom anyway.
SilentTyrant
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about 90%+ of the 6950's can be unlocked with no problems ,,,infact its most prob more than that since they are the same PCB just 6970's are higher up on the binning process but with a aftermarket cooler I dont think you would run into any problems, but sayin that its best just buy the card you want than to buy the one lower and hope you can flash it problem free imo
SilentTyrant
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but getting back on topic (my bad) these cards look like the best bet and thats coming from a AMD fan lol
murphy7801
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Dont take this the wrong way but like to see what evidence you have to support this claim.
SilentTyrant
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its cool i'm not.. there was this big poll on some forum and everyone with the 6950's put what card they had and if it worked or not... i'll try and find it again for you
SilentTyrant
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ok found it, very high pass rate indeed
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/159
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/159
murphy7801
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Again not meaning say that your intentions aren't well placed but this statics give you no indication to actual failures merely what cards could not be unlocked. This doesn't give indication that cards after this was done broke at a later date.
Rastalovich
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With good reason.
I'd only do it with a card I didn't pay for and planned to bench the crap out of it - which appears to be when they crap the bed.
My own cash ? Or someone who wants advice ? Get a 6970 or 560.
JezEngland
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570's have more GDDR5 memory. That helps though 1 580 now or 2 if you can will help alot. going by this vid 480 has 1.5GB GDDR5 like the 580 and produces a significantly better result at crunch time to the 570. What resolution will you run them? this vid is 1920x1080 and there isn't alot of games demanding like metro 2033 i think so it's a future proof need too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pZB4FMp-2w
SilentTyrant
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scroll down to "Discuss this article in our forums" on that link,,, over 3 months and 79 pages of people talking about their flashed 6950s
murphy7801
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Actually think what your finding what happens on this vid is that physx is turned on so the extra gddr5 gives it an edge but i will be using a dedicated physx card in my pc thats not really to much to worry about.
murphy7801
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I'm not convinced by coming forward with there problems but I'm merely playing devils advocate in this situation.
Filekutter
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Really is a gorgeous card.
darkshadow
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Wait, if I overclock my twin frozr II one, will it perform the same?
If you can get it to the same numbers it should. There is however no guarantee that you will due to the silicon lottery.
