Any word on unlockable 7950's?

krag · Feb 14, 2012

Has anyone heard if the 7950s unlock like the 6950s did? that would be sweet if so.

EarthDog · Feb 14, 2012

Nope. They do not unlock. You can flash to 7970 bios it seems, but it does not unlock shaders.

krag · Feb 14, 2012

EarthDog said:
Nope. They do not unlock. You can flash to 7970 bios it seems, but it does not unlock shaders.

? So you can flash the bios to a 7970 but it only bumps the core & mem speeds?

EarthDog · Feb 14, 2012

That seems to be the story. My flash didnt work period and borked the 2nd bios... I guess I had the wrong one?

I have seen slightly more than negligable gains from doing this on other forums. Its been theorized that the sub timings in the memory are tighter, but nothing concrete. Here are a few links for ya.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=21175415

krag · Feb 14, 2012

Bummer, I was hoping for unlockable 7950s. I had heard that the unlockable shaders & 2nd bios with switch had done nothing but increase overall sales for AMD on the 6000 series cards. Musta just been interwebs mythos.

Bobnova · Feb 14, 2012

It probably did increase sales a ton.
That said this is a new process, I imagine that the vast majority of 7950s are actually defective 7970 cores, as opposed to the first generation of 6950s that were just disabled 6970 cores.

Roachgod · Feb 14, 2012

I'm hoping for a 7930 that can unlock to a 7950 or even 7970 if you are really lucky.

SF101 · Feb 15, 2012

yea amd probably never realized their 6950 sales increase was majorly due to fact you can unlock the cores to 6970. and feel like you gained something .. they should have used that considering the price they want for the new cards in comparison.

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