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Posted by: SuicidalSplatter
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Posted by: kikashi hatake
Posted by: TopWargamer
Posted by: SuicidalSplatter
Get the 6950, the Sapphire one linked above comes with two free games, and you can always flash it to a 6970, giving you even more power. I've barely heard anything bad about them, and I'm actually waiting for mine to come in the mail.
NO....don't get the 6970. The benchmarks are hardly better than the 6950 and it's $140 more than the 6950.
You can BIOS flash a 6950 and turn it into a 6970
I've never heard of this. Please explain. Here, this should explain it.
Basically, I guess you could say it's like jailbreaking an iPod: You flash a new firmware and that firmware will unlock new features, and in the case of the 6950, it unlocks the extra shaders that you'd pay the extra money for if you were to buy the 6970. Of course, it will void your warranty, and you have the possibility of having issues with it, but as the article says, you should have made a backup of your old BIOS.But for god's sake, don't jailbreak an iPod unless you have a newer version unjailbroken for use if it messes up.