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4 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

Wait, I see it in the photos.  Though it woulda been easier to read IF SOMEONE HAD TURNED OFF THE FREAKIN' CAMERA FLASH, HINT HINT.

 

GV-R795WF3-3GD Rev. 2.0

 

https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-R795WF3-3GD-rev10-20#ov

 

So it IS a 7950, not a 7970 flashed to be a 7950.

Yeah, i got it. made it out on the look up on the card. But now i have a new question. Can it be flashed to a d 7970 standard?

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5 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

Wait, I see it in the photos.  Though it woulda been easier to read IF SOMEONE HAD TURNED OFF THE FREAKIN' CAMERA FLASH, HINT HINT.

 

GV-R795WF3-3GD Rev. 2.0

 

https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-R795WF3-3GD-rev10-20#ov

 

So it IS a 7950, not a 7970 flashed to be a 7950.

Considering it has a 7970 PCB, I wouldn't be surprised if flashing it to unlock the cores actually worked. Plus, there's the dual-BIOS switch to mask any changes incase anything fucks up.

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1 minute ago, PartyWire said:

Yeah, i got it. made it out on the look up on the card. But now i have a new question. Can it be flashed to a d 7970 standard?

TO the best of my knowledge, not really.  You can flash a  7970 BIOS on but the additional shaders have been fused off in the factory, AMD learned their lesson with the 6950.  So while it'll unlock more voltage options and such, you can't really turn a 7950 into a 7970, shader wise.  However I'm not 100% certian and you have a BIOS switch so it can't hurt to try.

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Just now, AshleyAshes said:

TO the best of my knowledge, not really.  You can flash a  7970 BIOS on but the additional shaders have been fused off in the factory, AMD learned their lesson with the 6950.  So while it'll unlock more voltage options and such, you can't really turn a 7950 into a 7970, shader wise.

Hmm, so what I'm reading is that i could, but i would have same performance?

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1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Considering it has a 7970 PCB, I wouldn't be surprised if flashing it to unlock the cores actually worked. Plus, there's the dual-BIOS switch to mask any changes incase anything fucks up.

Is it though?  My XFX 7950 DD Black Edition also uses 6 and 8 pins as well, but I'm sure it's factory fused (I tried. :( ) 

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Just now, AshleyAshes said:

Is it though?  My XFX 7950 DD Black Edition also uses 6 and 8 pins as well, but I'm sure it's factory fused (I tried. :( ) 

No, I meant the overall PCB layout. If that's a 7970 PCB, then Gigabyte might've wanted to sell more 7950s and to do so they needed more stock, so they disable a few cores and call it a 7950. Plus, BIOS switch, no harm in trying.

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No, I meant the overall PCB layout. If that's a 7970 PCB, then Gigabyte might've wanted to sell more 7950s and to do so they needed more stock, so they disable a few cores and call it a 7950. Plus, BIOS switch, no harm in trying.

It could still be a 7950 chip.  But I do fully agree with you that with the BIOS switch, no harm in trying.  I imagine someone out there already has a ready to go BIOS image for that model if you fight the right thread.

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Just now, AshleyAshes said:

It could still be a 7950 chip.  But I do fully agree with you that with the BIOS switch, no harm in trying.  I imagine someone out there already has a ready to go BIOS image for that model if you fight the right thread.

Well, the 7950 and 7970 chips were both Tahiti anyway :P But yeah, he could start by trying to flash the BIOS with that, or one from the equivalent PCB 7970.

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1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

No, I meant the overall PCB layout. If that's a 7970 PCB, then Gigabyte might've wanted to sell more 7950s and to do so they needed more stock, so they disable a few cores and call it a 7950. Plus, BIOS switch, no harm in trying.

so pretty much i could fuck up once on one side of the bios switch, and then pop it on to the other side and act like nothing happened.

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1 minute ago, PartyWire said:

so pretty much i could fuck up once on one side of the bios switch, and then pop it on to the other side and act like nothing happened.

Yeah pretty much.

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3 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

It could still be a 7950 chip.  But I do fully agree with you that with the BIOS switch, no harm in trying.  I imagine someone out there already has a ready to go BIOS image for that model if you fight the right thread.

 

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Yeah pretty much.

Do you know any good sites where i could find a flashing tutorial for a amd card?

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Intel Pentium III @ 733Mhz (Oldest of the Bunch)

Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.8Ghz (2002)

Intel Pentium 4 @ 3.0Ghz (2003)

AMD Sempron 64 2800+ @ 1.6Ghz (2004, Aug)

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ @ 2.2Ghz (2004, Jun)

2X Intel Xeon X5355 @ 2.66Ghz (2006, Q4)

Intel Pentium E2140 @ 1.6Ghz (2007, Q2)

Intel Xeon E5630 @ 2.53Ghz (2010, Q1)

Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @ 3Ghz (2008, Q1) (In use, @ 3.61Ghz)

Intel Pentium E6500 @ 2.93Ghz (2008, Q1)

 

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Palit GeForce 6800 GS (Should be working, AGP 8X)

Club 3D GTS 450 (Working, PCI-e 16x)

Sapphire Radeon X800GTO (Working, PCI-e 16x)

Nvidia GeForce 4 (Last time worked, AGP 4X)

Nvidia GeForce FX (No idea, AGP 4X)

Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 OC (Semi-dead, PCI-e 16x)

 

Ram (1)

No idea of the brand or Socket (Whopping 16 Mb memory)

 

Cables (1)

CrossFire X Cable

 

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1 hour ago, PartyWire said:

 

Do you know any good sites where i could find a flashing tutorial for a amd card?

I'm pretty sure there's a guide on overclock.net and techpowerup that you can find through google.

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