Warning to AMD 6970 future buyers! - Page 3

Mjollnir · 10th May 2011, 10:24 PM

Btw anyone bought a full cover block for the new revision cards yet?

I assume EK 6970 v2 will work?

WishBone17 · 10th May 2011, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mjollnir

Btw anyone bought a full cover block for the new revision cards yet?

I assume EK 6970 v2 will work?

I ask TKR about it recently and he advise me to contact the manufactorer as he wasnt too sure.

I contact Koolance and they told me to email a photo of the PCB layout (which meant taken off the heatsink, which i wasnt prepared to do just yet)

Pinkeh · 11th May 2011, 1:08 PM

My 6970s are very noisy when the fans are on 50%+

What do you guys do with the noise ?

Barnzz · 11th May 2011, 5:29 PM

got the same thing as Op, very annoying, well I had 2 MSI 6970's and bought a third, packaging and looks the same except no back plate and newer bios. Not real impressed, no doubt when I get a 4th I will also have to get another without the backplate, pretty lame.

Caffeine Dealer · 12th May 2011, 9:55 PM

Then don't buy a 4th?!

Buy something else?

Why does everyone rave about the importance of bios flashing? Surely the extra shaders don't actually make that big of a difference to real world use.....do they?

Dumpty · 6th December 2011, 3:24 PM

just bought two of these
hopefully these work.
I took my card back for an exchange for V1 but theres none left.

JamalH · 6th December 2011, 5:50 PM

Looks like ill be going nvidia one i feel the need to get rod of my 4870x2

Sol_Invictus · 6th December 2011, 6:00 PM

This is a well known PCB and design change. The rev 2 came out months ago. Thats why there are 2 diff water blocks for them and the BIOS switch was removed.

Dumpty · 6th December 2011, 8:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JamalH

Looks like ill be going nvidia one i feel the need to get rod of my 4870x2

me too just waiting for something decent from Nvidia's part

Miff88 · 7th December 2011, 2:43 PM

One is version 1 and the other is version 2. Saphire have the exact same issue. The difference with Saphire is the external box is IDENTICAL between versions, but the cards are 99% different in most visual ways. I got stung by that bad boy

ir0nhide · 7th December 2011, 6:37 PM

Am I the only one really confused here? Sure, you don't have a back plate, but does this really mean shittier performance and having to buy two separate blocks?

the GPU core looks to have identical location and mount holes, for instance.

Deeb0 · 8th December 2011, 11:19 PM

hah! that sucks man... I have resorted to opening up graphics cards in the shop to make sure they are exactly what I want before buying them... its the only way to know what you are getting cause the model numbers are just BS.

WishBone17 · 8th December 2011, 11:33 PM

haha this is an old thread, it got revived somehow, i sold them and got gtx 580s, its a way better product

.

As for the new reference design, people with backplates you are lucky buggers, it was a short release, AMD were apparently producing them at a lost, so thats why they changed it.

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6th December 2011, 6:00 PM	#38
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7th December 2011, 2:43 PM	#40
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8th December 2011, 11:19 PM	#42
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