I would like to buy the ATI Radeon 6990M

Hello,

does anyone have an unused graphic card ATI Radeon 6990M at home?
It can also be used, but it must still be functional.

Thank you.

 

I'm going to throw this out right now. The HD 6000 and HD 7000 series suffer from the same problem, they used cheap tin which causes the chips to malfunction rather fast. If you can upgrade to something like a HD 8970M or need something older like a GTX 680M, then I strongly suggest you go for that before making yourself unlucky with replacing your card like every 6 months or so.

 

Agreed. If its not possible the 8970M/680M will work i'd say go for the 7970M, there are more of them around than 6990Ms and often they are often cheaper.

 

That's why it always pains me to say this, but the HD 7970M suffers from the same issue as the HD 6xxx series. It's such a good price to performance ratio card, if it wasn't for that one huge flaw, I'd recommend the card. The 8970M is essentially the same card as the 7970M, only without using cheap solder, which makes it easy to recommend, however you need a system that supports it. Since I don't know what notebook OP has, I can't exacly recommend the 8970M as of now. If he has something like a Clevo P150HM then his only real option is a GTX 680M.

 

That sounds good, but how do I replace the old graphics card for the new GTX 680M in the Eurocom P170HM Neptune. In the bios, it is reported to be a bug

 

Alright so you're stuck to the GTX 680M.

Well as far as I know, get the latest BIOS, preferbly Prema Bios if you can get your hands on that.
Be sure to get a GTX 680M that is NOT a dell card.

Anything else should be good.

 

So... What´s the main problem of the HD 6990M? ..

So I do not have to buy it again but I do not have so much demands on the card. I just do not understand how she left when she was not burdened.

 

it's because of the bumpers inside the GPU itself. They basicially just kill themselves. It's a production fault.

 

As far as I can gather Clevo did something to the MXM port that wasn't used by any card prior to the 8xxx and GTX 7xx series for some neat features for OEM cards, maybe some new thermal sensors goodness who knows, however that changed, and now those ports which were specifically designed for those purposes are now used on newer cards, which makes the detection impossible, see it as in it has MXM ports which lacks some lanes compared to something as old as the MSI or Alienware 1st gen I7 series.

 

Another thing to note is Terascale is no longer supported in driver updates, the last one is from a couple of years ago. That means all 4000, 5000 and 6000 series cards get no driver updates which means they will run very badly in newer games. If they were still updated with new drivers i'd be quite happy to keep my 5870s to be honest - I have no issues with the performance, only with the lack of support for crossfire.

If you're willing to risk it, go for a 7970M. If you want something to last a few years then try and get a 680m.

 

You should upgrade to single HD 8970M. It beats the crap out of your older cards and runs way way way more efficient. Less noise and heat. But damn, those older ATI cards sure are sturdy. Never seen any issues with HD 4xxx or HD 5xxx series cards. Glad to see that AMD fixed everything since the HD 8xxx series again.

 

I'm afraid that 680m will not get there ..
I was also completely satisfied with the 6990M MXM ... So I think I will buy it again, knowing that after 3 years I will replace the whole pc.

 

It will work just fine, no worries.

If you buy a used 6990M, you'll basicially risk doing an upgrade every 2-3 months.

 

So buy 680m for example 680m alienware? But I do not know if there's the latest bios version

 

nonononono, as i said, everything except Alienware. It doesn't matter what vBios version its on it. Itll be plug and play.

 

So this one, right?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-GT70-V...635334?hash=item4d59f3db06:g:5lwAAOSwY3BZGZeB

 

For example yes. You can also ask the seller if he could flash a clevo vBios on the card before shipping.

 

ATI went away with the 5000 series.

I miss them. Kind of my main issue with AMD... :/

 

A dead 6970M/6990M can often be revived with a reflow using a heat gun and liquid flux. Those suffered from bad solder joints, rarely if ever a core failure. 7970M early versions had core failure from the 28nm teething process, something that reflowing can’t fix. I’ve baked several 6990Ms and revived them successfully