yup agree with the above poster... flashing is not really hard if you follow the instructions in the thread. However having a custom fan curve is recommended if you want to flash your card, programs such as Sapphire Trixx or MSI Afterburner will allow changes to be made to the fan speed of the card.
For me what I did was use a shaders unlocked only bios of the 6950, then overclock the card to 6970 speeds using Sapphire Trixx, as well as making a custom fan curve. There is a batch file in the forum thread I have linked above which does the flashing of the 6950 automatically but it uses a 6970 bios. So what you have to do is find a shaders unlock only bios replace it within the batch file. A bit hard to explain over here you can search through the thread for more information.
Personally the 6950 is the most bang for the buck card right now in the market imo, especially if you game at 1920x1080 resolutions, because 1. it can be flashed to give you 6970 performance for quite a few bucks less 2. the only single GPU card faster than it is Nvidia's 580 which costs a whole lot more ( 6970 is neck to neck with 570 in most cases unless you count HAWX 2 ) 3. no other single GPU card is coming out in the near future, meaning you'll have the fastest single GPU card in ATI's arsenal
Even if you don't want to risk flashing, and have the money, I will still suggest getting a 6950 because it's performance in most cases is a mere 10% lesser than the 6970
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