I received my new graphic cards a couple of days ago.
because I am used to play Crysis or Black Ops I had to upgrade my PC.LOL
and I wanted to be prepared for the new Crysis2 coming out in March 2011.
I had 2x ATI 5770 Vapor-x@crossfire before and this combined with a 4Ghz cpu was a nice combination to play all games on high resolutions but not at the highest
and this did not work with my 3x27" monitor setup to play on all three with eyefinity
a thread at techpowerup came to my attention...
unlocking ATI Radeon 6950
if you have a look at the test results, this works with 98% of the cards
I decided to buy 2 cards and to have a closer look at this
this was my choice
Powercolor ATI Radeon 6950 @newegg
just be aware...
its pretty safe to do this because of the dual bios of the new ATIs
BUT there is no warranty this will work
here we go....
this is what it looked like before in GPU-Z
this is what it looks like now after the bios flash
scores with one 6950
scores with 6950@6970
thats an increase of almost 12 % on xtreme presets and it took me 5 mins to flash the card
here are my scores for the new Crossfire setup now
the ATI Radeon 6950 is being offered for 299$
the 6970 for 369$ at newegg
in Europe they are offered for 240€(6950)and 310€ for the 6970
conclusion :
looks like I saved 140€....
enough money to make my girlfriend a little happier
at least enough to go out for dinner sometimes LOL
if you have any questions on this hit me up
Regards