I would like to wish a Happy New Year and the best for 2011 to the readers. Like most of us I’ll be getting drunk so don’t expect graphics related news till the 2nd of January. Well… maybe a hangover review roundup if I can manage.
Make the most out the rest of the last day of 2010.
Yours truly, Lajos Nemeth.
The OC friendly GTX 460 from Galaxy that we reported a few months back, ended-up on the market called the GTX 460 HOF (Hall of Fame). The card comes with a milky white PCB and it has an 6+2 phase power circuitry, the six main phases are controlled by a Volterra VT1185M master and VT1157SF slave chips, while the remaining two phases power the 1GB of 0.4ns GDDR5 Samsung memory onboard. On the back of the PCB there are four NEC proadlizer chips to reduce electrical noise, and by thus improving overclocking capabilities. To make sure that power wont be capping the OC headroom the card has one 8-pin and one 6-pin power connector. The power circuitry is has it’s own heatsink, while the job of keeping the GPU cool is the job of a dual-slot heatsink with four 6mm heatpipes and the airflow is provided by one 82mm fan. To sweeten the deal even more the card comes factory overclocked to the respectable clocks of 850/1700/4000MHz (GPU/CUDA Cores/Memory), it’s quite a nice bump over the reference clocks of 675/1350/3800MHz. On the connectivity front we get one dual-link DVI, one HDMI and one DisplayPort.
Source: EXPreview
The new version of the popular GPU information utility now has full support for AMD’s Radeon HD 6950 and HD 6970, it also comes with improved voltage monitoring on the GeForce GTX 570, fixing the TMU/Texture filtering rounding errors and a couple of freezes and crashes.
Since the HD 6970 and HD 6950 use the same PCB, only the latter is missing a few extra power phases. Still the remaining ones are enough to house the disabled shader modules and the clocks of the HD 6970. It’s a simple BIOS flash to turn your HD 6950 into an HD 6970, but in case your card doesn’t boot up you can use the Safe BIOS switch on your card to flash the primary BIOS back to it’s original state.
The guys over at techPowerUp! posted a detailed article how to unlock the HD 6950, head over there to read detailed instructions and grab all the necessary tools.
I would like to wish every reader a happy holiday and a great festive season. Get together with your families and loved ones.
I’ll be doing exactly that, so I’ll be back on the 28th with the graphics related news. Till then, have a good time folks!
Yours truly, Lajos V. Nemeth.
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