Mods / Tweaks
Radeon HD 6950 to HD 6970 Flashing Tools
by admin on Jan.02, 2011, under Mods / Tweaks, Overclocking Tools
Radeon HD 6950 to HD 6970 Flashing Tools (108)
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Recently it became apparent that the Radeon HD 6950 in fact is a 6970 with shader processor clusters disabled. You’ll need to re-flash your card though. You can perform the flashing process from within Windows and het, thanks to AMD’s new Dual-BIOS feature if something would go wrong, you can switch back. We successfully tested an unlock on a HD 6950 cards. Other have tried one AMD engineering sample, one HIS media sample and one ASUS retail card. All of them unlocked perfectly and run at HD 6970 speeds now. Your graphics card needs to be a reference design sample.
The Download & instructions are courtesy of TechPowerup!
- Grab ATI Winflash from here (32 & 64-bit).
- Download HD 6970 BIOS. 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).
- Run ATI Winflash, click Save to save your BIOS, so you have a backup in case something goes wrong.
- Load the HD 6970 BIOS into Winflash by clicking Load Image, followed by Program.
- Let the flashing process complete and reboot your system.
- Check the shader count using GPU-Z, it should show 1536. Make sure you use the linked version of GPU-Z, the official 0.4.9 version does not support HD 6900 Series properly. If you see a shader count of 1600, your GPU-Z version is outdated and you should get the one from the link here.
- To ensure maximized performance open Catalyst Control Center, go to the Overdrive tab and set the PowerTune slider to the +20% setting. The “Testing” section of this article has more data on that.
- Check stability in Windows desktop applications and games.
If you get an error like ID mismatch or Could not erase ROM, then you’ll have to do some extra work in a Windows command prompt (or DOS): Run atiwinflash -unlockrom 0 followed by atiwinflash -f -p 0 bios.bin where bios.bin is the path and filename of the HD 6970 BIOS you downloaded.
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SSD Tweaker 1.6.1
by admin on Oct.10, 2010, under Mods / Tweaks
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download: SSD Tweaker 1.6.1 (105.47KB) added: 10/10/2010 clicks: 100 description: Even though the Internet provides us with numerous tips and tricks for SSD hard drives, it can still take us long hours of research for correctly setting up an SSD drive. Now with the SSD Tweaker you can adjust Windows settings in seconds: · Windows Indexing Service · System Restore · Windows Defrag · Use Large System Cache · Ntfs Memory Usage · Disable 8.3 Filenames · Disable Date Stamping · Disable Boot Tracing · Windows Prefetcher · Windows Vista Superfetch · Windows Services |
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download: NVIDIA BIOS Editor 5.6 (NiBiTor) (732.10KB) added: 04/06/2010 clicks: 116 description: NiBiTor (short for NVIDIA BIOS Editor) received its latest update. Version 5.6 of the program includes support for new GPUs and limited experimental support for new unknown GPUs. Apart from supporting new GPUs, the new version also includes its usual load of minor bug fixes that improve stability and usability. GPUs supported from this version on, include: Changes in this Version * Added GeForce GTX 480 * Added GeForce GTX 470 |
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download: GeForce SLI Profile Tool (513KB) added: 31/05/2010 clicks: 104 description: GeForce SLI Profile Tool is a simple utility, developed by NVIDIA, that enables SLI customers to export their SLI profiles to a text file, edit them, and then import them back into the driver. |
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download: NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) 5.5 (601.14KB) added: 14/05/2010 clicks: 119 description: NiBiTor (short for NVIDIA BIOS Editor) received its latest update. Version 5.5 of the program includes support for new GPUs and limited experimental support for new unknown GPUs. Apart from supporting new GPUs, the new version also includes its usual load of minor bug fixes that improve stability and usability. GPUs supported from this version on, include: * GeForce 210 * GeForce GT 220 * GeForce GT 230 * GeForce GT 240 * GeForce GTS 250M A future version of NiBiTor will include official support for GF100-derived GPUs, though early-access to that version can be had by supporting the project |
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download: CPU Tweaker 1.5 beta 4 (226B) added: 12/05/2010 clicks: 122 description: A nice freeware utility which allows you to change the memory timmings through windows. For Processors with Integrated Memory Controller: -AMD Phenom DDR2 & DDR3. -INTEL Core i7 DDR3. Change timings on Core i7 CPU is possible with GygaByte, eVGA ,DFI and Biostar motherboards. (Memory Configuration space are locked in the bios on others motherboards). UPDATES -Add a window monitoring (Graphes CPU Load, CPU Temp, CPU & RAM frequency, Used RAM size). -Add 2 systray Icons (CPU Load and Highest Temp). -Replace the Average Temp graph by Highest Temp graph. -Add a panel with time elapsed. -Improve Reading Frequency on all CPUs |
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download: CPU-Tweaker v:1.4 / 2000 / XP / Vista / Seven 32&64 bit (410.32KB) added: 15/03/2010 clicks: 147 description: A nice freeware utility which allows you to change the memory timmings through windows. For Processors with Integrated Memory Controller: -AMD Phenom DDR2 & DDR3. -INTEL Core i7 DDR3. Change timings on Core i7 CPU is possible with GygaByte, eVGA ,DFI and Biostar motherboards. (Memory Configuration space are locked in the bios on others motherboards). UPDATES -Increase Reading Cas# on Intel Core i3 CPU. -Interface was changed (the system information panel is more complete now). -Add the change of core multiplier for Intel Core i3/i5 Clarckdale CPU. -Improve the change of core multiplier for Intel Core i5/i7 Lynnfield CPU. -Add support for Intel Core i3/i5 Clarckdale CPU. -Fix the bug when aero is disabled if CPU-Tweaker is open on AMD CPU under Windows 7. -Add some chipsets detection ID. |
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download: nVHardPage SE 3.5 (2.19MB) added: 01/03/2010 clicks: 121 description: Do you seek an easy way to en/disable overclocking options or vsync option in your ForceWare drivers without the burden of importing registry entries or the need to go in that registry yourself ? Basically CoolBits and more within your fingertips.The NVIDIA tweaking tool nVHardpage underwent quite some changes. nVHardPage nVidia videocard tweaker is tweaking utility for nVidia display adapters running under Windows 98 (SE) / Windows ME / Windows 2000 and Windows XP. With this tweak utility you can enable/disable hidden features in nVidia control panel, tweak nVidia Direct3D and OpenGL settings and overclock your nVidia display adapter. |
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download: ATI Tray Tools 1.6.9.1472 (1.75MB) added: 01/03/2010 clicks: 103 description: ATI Tray Tools is a small utility that can be found in the windows tray which then allows instant access to options and settings. Quite handy and quite a small download. Just click the executable and you are good to go. Guru3D.com is the official English homepage for this utility.This is a fantastic tweaker for ATI Radeon cards positions itself in the system tray.Software highlights: * Support for ATI Control Center * Support for TV Out and displays with profiles * Options to change Theater mode together with TV Out * Overclocking with templates including FAN Control * Automatic overclocking when application required 3D mode * Temperature monitoring * Artifact Tester with ability to find maximum stable clocks for GPU and Memory. * Game profiles with desktop shortcut creation. * Direct3D settings with templates, GUI form and tray popup menu * OpenGL settings with templates, GUI form and tray popup menu * Hardware low level color correction * Hardware tweaks. Setting PCI latency timer |
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download: ForceWare Coolbits 2.0 (69.44KB) added: 01/03/2010 clicks: 122 description: Coolbits 2 unleashes hidden function within ForceWare drivers, it enables several new Direct3d and OpenGL configuration tabs, and even more tweaking capability from the nVidia taskbar settings panel. |
