I have 6990m cfx already but...

I kind of think drivers have got to be part of barrier here. It will be interesting to see how things look in a couple months or so.

 

fortnax, Should I remove the pads from memorys and shaders and change it for thermal paste?, will you sell 4 pipe for Spain??

 

4-piped HS is not ready yet and it won't be covered by warranty.

As for paste, it's up to you but I'd remove the pads and use paste on memory chips as well.

 

Yes, i konw about the warranty, but, will be possible to send to spain?

 

Everything is possible

 

jeje, ok doc.

 

Hello Koelle

Was an overclock feature included in the Catalyst Control Center?
or a program like AMD Overdrive included on the factory hard drive? ( for gpu not cpu )

Did I hear correctly that a factory overclock feature would be included
with the 6990m?

Maybe I'm mistaken about this.

Thanks

 

I'd love to see if the 6990m can run at 6870 desktop clocks.

 

On average should be doable though I'm not sure if the core can be pushed from 715 to 900...

 

Bdracing doesnt have.
Respect oc Probably not for the temps. Sorry I'm confused now. I have just formated my ssd skill phoenix pro and now I have 165gb of capacity. The ssd original capacity is 120gb !!!!

 

As speedy says, don't worry, they're 6990m, only GPU-Z reads them as 6970m. Can you upload the VBIOS here?

And a vantage run of CF and especially single card would be greatly appreciated!!!!


Edit: What the...? This post got somehow delayed by hours!!!

 

I have already posted BIOS, you have it in the first post.

Right now I have just installed w7 in my dimensioned ssd. I have 165gb not 111(my ssd 120gb model) can anyone tell me what the xx is happening?

 

As a reference, here is what I score on '11 with my everyday settings from my sig. Can you try a little overclocking on those cards and see what they pull?

 

What the heck... I posted this request when the thread only had about 7 replies... and it shows up hours later. No idea what went wrong on the NBR servers, lol, now my post looks really stupid. Thanks anyway!

 

@all

guys anyone here tried to flash 6990m vbios to 6970m?..

@svl7
You're the only one who put back your 6970m to life when you bricked flashing not compatible vbios!! +rep

Can you tried flashing 6990m vbios to your 6970m?

 

As awesome as unlocking the extra disabled stream processors on a 6970 would be, I cannot imagine they could be software unlocked. It wouldn't make sense for ATi to have disabled them unless there were cooling issues or such. If I had designed the card, I would made them physically disabled, but that is just me. Still I will +Rep anyone who tries turning their 6970 into 6990. I hope you don't brick your card

 

Yeah I agree with the above post. I'd like to see if that is possible.

Did we all come to the conclusion on what these cards are?

 

Thanks bro. The regular 6970m has definitely only 960 shaders, the rest is cut off... well to be honest I haven't tried flashing the 6990m vbios yet, but I bet it won't magically unlock shaders.

I may try it when I come around, but at the moment I need a running system and don't have the time to revive a dead card.

The ES 6970m only came with 960 shaders as well, the rest was locked per VBIOS. Flashing the Dell VBIOS allows to unlock the additional shaders on the ES 6970m card. Considering that there were probably quite a lot improvements and changes since the first ES 6970m, I doubt that even a 1120 shader 6970m ES would work with the 6990m vbios.

 

Hmm Id also love to see a 6970 flashed with a 6990 vbios. I think it could be much like the Nvidia 280->285. I hope anyhow.

 

This could actually work, IMHO. It just doesn't seem like AMD would produce 2 types of cards when they had a chance of making a single one and adjusting the specs with vBIOS. I'm really curious to see someone try and flash the 6970M with a 6990M vBIOS.


Those who have their systems going back for replacement, can definitely give it a shot

 

Ok guys, I can try it. Though I haven't a Dell card... but it works with the Dell 6970m vbios as well, so... yeah, trial and error I guess.

But I want a VBIOS that got copied per ATIflash, I don't want to use a VBIOS that got dumped per GPU-Z, a while ago I had some issues with corrupted Nvidia VBIOS which got dumped with GPU-Z.

So I'd need the VBIOS, dumped with ATIflash booted from a DOS drive, and as well the VBIOS checksum and size to verify it doesn't got corrupted on the way (both can get read out with ATIflash). Murphy's usually omnipresent, so we should try to rule out any conflicts in advance.

 

maybe you can ask koelle to backup/save his 6990m vbios using atiflash DOS environment.

@koelle
Can you make backup Vbios dumped using Atiflash in DOS environment.
Everyone is waiting for svl7 next unlocking attempt.. Cheers!!

 

+1 slv

I tried this with a 5870. Flashed it with a 5850 vbios. Didn't work but was able to flash back so no harm done. Good luck. Thanks again.

 

Hi everyone, Im still breaking my head about why after formatting my ssd pass from 120 gb to 180 gb??????.

I have just solved how to clone from hdd to ssd all partitions and keep all drivers.

Ok. Downloading v 3.86

 

My thinking ad well. Looks like they just wrote a new vbios and upped the clocks. *fingers crossed*

 

Here you have, I have extracted with atiwinflash.

https://rapidshare.com/files/318323203/bios.rom

 

en lugar de estar perocupado deberias de estar contento de haber ganado 60gb gratis

you should be happy that you have 60gb more after formatting

 

Jajaj, estoy más bien mosqueado, no vaya a ser que pete esto y se me vayan los datos a tomar por saco. (I dont know how to translate it, but, resuming is..... i'm skeptical.

 

Hey, koelle! could you do us a favor a take a picture of the system with no bottom plate, i want to check if Dell has modified the GPU heatsinks like on M17x (first one early revision feb 11, second - july 11):



They added a little more cooper on the heatsink as far as i can see)

 

I have the 6970m ENG version and I'm using the 6990m vbios. I have 1280 shaders now! No just kidding. Shaders show as 1120 in GPU-z same as before. No change in anything apart from clocks.

 

Arent the 6990m's using 1120 shaders though????? - my 6970m cards are showing as 960 in gpu-z.....

You are using an engineering sample 6970m, right? was that defaulted at 1120 shaders or something 'cos afaik, all 6970m's should be 960 shaders, right?

Are you saying that by using the 6990m vbios, you have gone from 960 to 1120 or was your card always 1120 (being an engineering sample) ??

 

Yeah my ENG 6970m has always been 1120 shaders. I just wanted to see if there was any difference when using the 6990m vbios.

 

Gotcha.....will have to see how it goes when someone flashes their 6970m (that has 960 shaders) with the 6990m vbios......would be nice to get 1120 shaders.....maybe wishful thinking!

 

lets wait svl7 for his next deadly attempts!! He's the only guy who has golden hand and guts to do such things..

 

Ok, I just flashed the card with the VBIOS koelle provided, no luck. It's a bit weird, POST is ok, Windows boots (can hear the sound of the logon screen) but no picture, the screen just stays black.

Was able to blind flash the card back to normality. I didn't uninstall the driver before this, but this shouldn't be the problem, I've already changed the hardware IDs of the card several times, and everytime Windows just loads a generic driver, so it seems the VBIOS is simply not compatible with out GPU.

 

Oh shame. The same happened to me with the Sapphire vbios from your card.

 

Did you update your BIOS To AO2 so the cards are recognized

 

svl7 has a M15x. See sig.

 

Lol my bad

 

@slv

Bummer. At least you don't have to reprogram the other chip. Thanks for trying.

 

You're welcome! True, saves me some time and trouble
As I said, I don't have a Dell 6970m, but I don't think it makes a difference since my card works very well with the Dell 6970m VBIOS.

 

Thanks for giving it a shot! +1 rep

 

nice try svl7!! up for you bro..!

 

I read somewhere (cannot remember where unfortunately) that 160 of the pipelines of 6970m were "physically" blocked to help with heat. It was made to seem as if the blocking mechanism was mechanical vs software. I read this when reading about the difference presented by xtx architecture

 

On the 28th of July my m17x should arrive. Specs: i7 2820, 8gb 1333mhz, 2x320gb RAID 0, 6990m. Someone mentioned that it would be better to have some single gpu benchmarks. I will get the newest drivers for catalyst and the gpu and run some tests and post them if no more benchmarks have come out by then. I plan on running pcvantage, 3dmark11, 3dmarkvantage and hopefully cinebench11.5. Anyone suggest other tests to run? thanks

 

So did the OP ever overclock his 6990's and run some benches? If so, could someone please direct me to those results? I'm very interested to see how the cards OC.

If not I'll do that when I receive my M18x the day after tomorrow.

 

Im not sure. but in reference to overclocking: speedy posted this earlier xtxoc. How do you plan to overclock it?

 

What is that?

I plan on OCing it using Sapphire Trixx. I'm just going to increase clock/memory incrementally and see how far I can take it.

 

That is an overclocked bios i got from koelle and i modified to 800-1000 clocks however i don't recommend to flash that because it was dump with GPUZ and those bios sometimes get corrupted

the best way to overclock is using bios because is more stable but to find your happy overclock you can use software first and then you can mod your own bios and flash that way you don't have to use software anymore

 

I see.

Thank you, Speedy.