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Unlock GeoForce 400 Series?

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After just reading the Wiki on GeForce 400 Series. It appears they all have the same GPU with 16 groups of 32 processors each. The cheaper models having groups lock some what like the way AMD lock cores out of there chips.

The GTX480 has one group locked. The GTX470 has two groups locked. The GTX has five groups locked. The Tesla also appears to use the same CPU but with two groups locked.

The Tesla also apparently to have accelerated double floating point performance with the GeForce cards being software restricted.

So my question is if it is possible to unlock any aspect of the cheaper cards?

Thanks :)
 
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MooMoo444 said:
They're usually locked for a reason, aka they don't work properly.
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As above they are locked for a reason. Not long after the gtx480 was released there was a leaked semi review of a full 512 shader fermi. The results showed performance was marginally better but heat and power usage was way off the chart.
 
6800 era you could unlock pipes, but 7***, 8***,9***,2** series it's been laser cut.
Only a 8800GS from Galaxy you could bios mod it into a 8800 GTX from what i remember.
 
Even assuming its possible there are some issues i.e. unlocking a 470 to 512SP would not work too well with the stock cooler and 2x 6-pin power connectors...
 
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