For those who had unlocked their 6950 and set their clock speed and memory speed to 6970, is there any who face problem? Or has anyone successfully unlocked it without any problems?
Also, anyone tried mod the bios only to unlock the shaders? If so, how's the performance compared to unmod?

Take note, newer Radeon HD6800 and Radeon HD6900 series can't be really flashed anymore. AMD have changed the PCB and BIOS design for newer batch of Radeon HD6800 and HD6900.

Still, there's chance they're still able to flash successfully. But, it's not as safe as the older batch anymore.

Guys just a question a 6970 > 5870 by 30% only right, in term of "cooler" it is still the same temperature 70-80C when it is running peak. Energy saving? 5870 use 180W and 6970 use 250W O.o

SOS

why cant u understand a card THAT IS FASTER on same temp and uses 70w more isnt too much

30% faster than previous card? got it

Searingmage, I believe it may be power delivery issue, so it have good chances of not able to deliver the performance a 6970 can give, but permanently damage the card is slim as you do not always push the card at maximum limit all the time.

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/418951..
is this the supposed range of score i should get?

PhysX still can be processed by Processor but it's not recommended only.

Games without PhysX title can't use PhysX also. Most of the games out there do not have PhysX title, so, they can't use PhysX offered by Nvidia.

Most games used OPEN SOURCE PHYSICS CALCULATION ENGINE, this mean they'll use whatever hardware(can be both GPU and CPU or either 1) you got to render or calculate the physics of the games/software.
Example:
Bullet Physics and Havok Physics.

So, you can stop your "don't think things didn't work out quite well". That's just your own imagination.

Physics Calculation of a game or software is merely CODING.
It's depending on the manufacturer on what they're into.
Take an example:
PhysX supported(and enabled) games are CODED NOT to perform greatly when you don't have PhysX(Nvidia GPU).
It's a marketing strategic offered by Nvidia basically.

3DMark, a well known benchmarking tools company used to support and partnered with PhysX.
However, now, they had dropped it. Because it's kind of cheating and unfair(get too much score making the benchmark unstable to be judged). It's like you need to make your software(physics calculation) just can run great in Nvidia GPU and run shitty on other hardwares(Intel, AMD).
3DMark 11 officially support Bullet Physics Engine(Open Source) already.

So meaning to say that titles with PhysX (Arkham Asylum, Mass Effect 2, Mafia 2, etc.) will work on AMD cards without problem... Cool!

Maybe I'll grab a HD6850 then. How about DX11 Tessellation?

So meaning to say that titles with PhysX (Arkham Asylum, Mass Effect 2, Mafia 2, etc.) will work on AMD cards without problem... Cool!

Maybe I'll grab a HD6850 then. How about DX11 Tessellation?