dont buy powercolor cards! worst crap ever.. and you can Flash only certain 6950 cards to 6970 in order to run them at that 480 otherwise they will be max 420khs.( and I doubt powercolor would even achieve that)
and a good r9 280x can run at 800khs overclocked.
But my r9-280x gives only a max of 750kh/s even when overclocked, but they give only 720 -730 stable
And about the 6950. are you sure these cards couldn't e flashed.. i was hoping it would