OC or flash my 6950 ? for better performance with ARMA2/OA

[cris2287]

Hello, what do you guys think will give me better performance with my system. I have a 6950 and i5-2500k with a Gigabyte MOBO with EasyTune6.

Should I flash the the 6950 to the 6970 or just use the easytune to OC my system with a simple hit of a button. If I flash the card then I should not OC because of the different power pins the cards have. Which will give me more perfromance with ARMA2 extra shaders or CPU speed > 4.0 using the easytune6. What will be better for the system in the long term.

[])rStrangelove]

Welcome to the forums mate

1. CPU
2. SSD
3. RAM (with Ramdisk in mind)
4. GPU

OCing your GPU doesnt do much if you already have a great card. Not worth the trouble imo.

[Flattermann]

I've flashed my 6950 to a 6970 recently. Well it gives me up to 15 FPS more _sometimes_, but most of the time the difference is not that noticeable. I have less FPS breakdowns for example when someone is popping a lot of smoke grenades on Chernarus. The E08 benchmark shows just about the same results.

I'll flash it back, it's not worth the extra power draw imho. If you flash, you should have look on the temperature, my card gets about 10-15°C hotter than before. I use this Sidebar Gadget for Win7 to keep an eye on the temps:

http://blog.orbmu2k.de/sidebar-gadge...sidebar-gadget

For flashing I use a batch file from Techpowerup:

http://www.chip.de/downloads/Grafikk..._46426468.html
>>flash_to_6970.bat
>>flash_back_to_6950.bat

I guess other games benefit more from that flashing, but you can still try it out see how it works for yourself. Just as said, it will raise your power draw and make sure you got a good case cooling.

Edit: You would get better performance from OC'ing your CPU since you got the K-version of the i5

[pluke the 2]

Hey all. I think this game has problems with our ATI 68xx & 69xx cards.

I have about 7,000, yes, 7K into my computer and I get very bad lag in this game.

I used to have a few 5870's in CF and I had no lag.