Soldato
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HD 6900's Here!
- Thread starter Gibbo
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Is it to swap bioses in the review samples between 6970 and 6950 so they only have to send 1 card? Other than that if you brick your card you have a manual switch to flick after a bad flash?
Or does it cripple any nvidia hardware at will, present in the system? Lol
Or does it cripple any nvidia hardware at will, present in the system? Lol
Having not owned an ATi card since a 3D RagePro with 4MB of RAM back in the '90's , what manufacturers are good to go with / stay away from? im talking reliability and RMA services in particular. I have bought OEM before and have been stung with things becoming faulty after a year, so looking for a more solid warranty this time.
If that switch comes on production cards and its purpose is to switch between performance settings via power consumption then its the most stupid idea ever.
No one would buy a high end card like that and set it to anything but the highest settings. Powerplay does that job already and if increasing power consumption for overclocking headroom is the purpose then anyone buying the card would set it to the highest and atleast let overdrive auto-tune the card.
Their power draw limiting software is meant to be more advanced then Nvidia's so why not let the software handle this instead of a tiny switch in the PC case, it would be much more dynamic.
TL;DR: I refuse to believe this theory as its retarded.
No one would buy a high end card like that and set it to anything but the highest settings. Powerplay does that job already and if increasing power consumption for overclocking headroom is the purpose then anyone buying the card would set it to the highest and atleast let overdrive auto-tune the card.
Their power draw limiting software is meant to be more advanced then Nvidia's so why not let the software handle this instead of a tiny switch in the PC case, it would be much more dynamic.
TL;DR: I refuse to believe this theory as its retarded.