Was just a matter of time before somebody figured it out.
If you're savvy enough to do this flashing than undervolting on your own shouldn't be a problem, It's pretty easy.8gb card for $200. Not bad. When the voltage and heat goes down with the update the gpu will be an even better value.
8gb card for $200. Not bad. When the voltage and heat goes down with the update the gpu will be an even better value.
I wonder what happened that lead to them to selling 8gb cards as 4gb?
That's a much bigger benefit though, since you were getting 2X as many pixel pipelines.I'm tempted to pick one up. That's one heck of a deal. Reminds me of the soft-mod I used to change my 9500 to a 9700.
Apparently the 512 megabyte chips they were going to use went EoL and the replacements weren't available yet, so they used what they had.
This is unfortunate in the sense that it means we are unlikely to actually have a 4gb version. Because at $199 the 480 is a steal. At $260 or whatever a non-reference 8gb version comes in at it likely won't be 30% faster. We have seen hardly any difference in benchmarks between the 4gb and 8gb versions.
I wonder if all of the original reference cards are 8G?
They probably are all 8GB. Because 4GB * 8 chips are EOL last I checked, it's 8GB for 8 chips these days being mass produced.
Also this:
Even the packaging for 4GB edition is rare! lol