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Submitted by mertesn 317d ago | news

Leaked BIOS turns Radeon HD 7970 into GHz Edition

Icrontic reports: "Recently AMD announced that they reclaimed the speed crown for the world’s fastest single-GPU graphics card with the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. The announcement bred a certain suspicion, which we have today confirmed: a leaked BIOS file will change your standard, “old” AMD Radeon HD 7970 almost completely into a Gigahertz Edition GPU." (AMD, AMD Radeon 7970, PC hardware)

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JONESY6  +   316d ago
LOL at that picture.
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LOL_WUT  +   316d ago
It's such a fail drawing my little nephew can do better than that.
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Rubberlegs  +   316d ago
You can already get these speeds pretty easily with a few different 7970 cards. I have a Sapphire 7970 overclocked at 1125/1575 running at default volts and default fan speed, runs like butter. That was only overclocked through the CCC as well maxing out the sliders.
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RockmanII7  +   316d ago
Huh, didn't expect to wake up and see a Sanic article today.
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Tzunoy  +   316d ago
i love my hd 6450 :)
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fatstarr  +   316d ago
reminds me of the old AMD tri core to quad core unlock. lol companies always holding out on the consumer.
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2pacalypsenow  +   316d ago
Im good with my GTX690
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hiredhelp  +   315d ago
Awsome glad your happy your 690 im happy my 7970 and be even more happy when realese 7990 watch out 690.

Just read article so now AMD has boost feature oooohh. Im going to update my bios wahooo. Na not really no need as stated by rubberlegs this easy done by CCC or afterburner or Trixx
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2pacalypsenow  +   315d ago
preety cool how AMD can upgrade video card power just by the bios
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