Yupp, I am thinking along the same lines - he screwed BIOSes somehow.

I was just confused with those 3 cores reported by atitweak. And the fact that there is only master 119.5 BIOS in techPowerUp archive.

Also, I remember reading here that someone had problems with Dell 5970 cards - I can't find it now - it was about buggy drivers or maybe they weren't working in Linux? Anyone can help me find that post/person?