FFXIV VGA performance help

[AlexiaKidd]

thank you so much! that's the info i was searching for! n__n, now i'm sure i'll buy the 6950 and unlock it in the future ^^
*i'm going to ebay lol*

No prob, I just did a bit of research about the temp's it reaches as I was concerned because it was at around 85-90C when running FFXIV but it seems that is nothing to be worried about and is just normal so going to switch back to the HD6950 BIOS now. When I get a chance I will run the Benchmark if you want on both so you can see the difference I can't remember what it was exactly but it was pretty big.

*EDIT*

Got the benchmark scores here though I am sure it was over 5000+ with the unlock before so going to see what I messed up, but this is what I got so far running on high settings:

HD6950 Stock:
http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...1-39-06-67.jpg

HD6950 Unlocked Shaders:
http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...3-03-26-81.jpg

Also I forgot that I changed my BIOS back to a HD6950 and used this unlock method as it is supposed to be safer, but I haven't really heard any complaint's about using the HD6970 BIOS method really so go with whichever you want I guess. Thinking about it I am sure I got the 5000+ score with the HD6970 BIOS as that was the one I was running for a while until I did this switch so maybe that method does work better. Here is a link to the other unlock method that keeps the HD6950 BIOS which is supposed to put less strain on the card.

http://www.overclock.net/amd-ati/923...hz-shader.html