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27-05-2008, 20:21
The guys at hardspell have managed to flash a cheap 9600GSO to a 8800GT (tho a 128sp GT).
They took a Galaxy GSO that has 8 ram chips on the PCB - this means that the 9600 GSO card they had was actually a 512MB card physically, although the 9600GSO is a 192bit bus card with a 384MB of ram readable by the bios (thus with only 6 ram chip adressable by default).
Since the card had 8 ram chips in sted of 6 it seemed it can be flashed to unlock the rest of the memory and the rest of the shader processors, and by doing that they got a 10% improvement in 3DMark2006.
The article with far fewer details is here (http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=3463).
What do you think? If it's for real, for 100$ we can actually purchase what effectively is a 8800GTS 512MB (128sp) or why not a 9800GTX... looks too good to be true.http://www.overclock.net/hardware-news/336836-en-hardspell-9600gso-flashed-8800gt.html
Uma 9600GSO custa 101,00 €
http://www.kuantokusta.pt/Placas-Video-Placas-Graficas-XFX-GeForce-9600GSO-384Mb-DDR3-PCI-E.php
They took a Galaxy GSO that has 8 ram chips on the PCB - this means that the 9600 GSO card they had was actually a 512MB card physically, although the 9600GSO is a 192bit bus card with a 384MB of ram readable by the bios (thus with only 6 ram chip adressable by default).
Since the card had 8 ram chips in sted of 6 it seemed it can be flashed to unlock the rest of the memory and the rest of the shader processors, and by doing that they got a 10% improvement in 3DMark2006.
The article with far fewer details is here (http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=3463).
What do you think? If it's for real, for 100$ we can actually purchase what effectively is a 8800GTS 512MB (128sp) or why not a 9800GTX... looks too good to be true.http://www.overclock.net/hardware-news/336836-en-hardspell-9600gso-flashed-8800gt.html
Uma 9600GSO custa 101,00 €
http://www.kuantokusta.pt/Placas-Video-Placas-Graficas-XFX-GeForce-9600GSO-384Mb-DDR3-PCI-E.php