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ReverendMaynard 04-20-2010 05:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Splave (Post 36278)
jesus christ, what are these companies doing
Shitting where they eat?

FACE 04-20-2010 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by ReverendMaynard (Post 36280)
Shitting where they eat?
More like trying to shit where WE eat, missing, and end up eating it themselves... :ohcrap:

Splave 04-20-2010 05:57 AM
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Originally Posted by FACE411 (Post 36283)
More like trying to shit where WE eat, missing, and end up eating it themselves... :ohcrap:
seriously, where is my toothbrush

Hondacity 04-20-2010 06:04 AM
this is bad....

the pre-release...like andreyangs card seem to have an unlocked bios...

i think even the pre-released lightnings have an unlocked bios....

lucky prerelease card owners....doing lots of advertising..:thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown:

Patch 04-20-2010 06:10 AM
Advertising gimmicry. They know we're a drop in the bucket and they'll never make any money off us. Especially since what we buy will likely get killed and need replacing over and over.

Give a few guys cherry picked unlocked stuff with data sheets and mod suggestions, grab some headlines, then sell all the gamers a bunch of cards with software and BIOS intentionally crippled to prevent mass RMA's.

Kal-EL 04-20-2010 06:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Patch (Post 36296)
Advertising gimmicry. They know we're a drop in the bucket and they'll never make any money off us. Especially since what we buy will likely get killed and need replacing over and over.

Give a few guys cherry picked unlocked stuff, grab some headlines, then sell all the gamers a bunch of cards intentionally crippled to prevent mass RMA's.
Sounds feasible and fixable if its just a matter of getting the bios from the "Pros". :ohcrap:

Hondacity 04-20-2010 06:26 AM
msi and gigabyte has been tight lipped about special stuff...unless given to their posterboys hicookie and some.

:ohcrap:they're partners with hwbot!!!

2chesapeakes 04-20-2010 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Jor-El (Post 36271)
^^ Yes!

Another big disappointment on the retail OC ed. 5870 department:

- Gigabyte choose to lock the SOC Tuner for retail version (no IC support), in other words you will get the 5870 SOC retail edition with a bundled software called SOC Tuner that will not work!!!!

No voltage tunning on the retail cards.

Only hardmods. The good news is the hardmod is easy and the Hynix memory runs 1420Mhz on air with stock volts.
RMA time if that don't work dispute with CC company. My CC company is all to happy to revrse charges and returning the product is not a requirement. I just haveto prove I requested an RMA and they refused.

Jor-El 04-20-2010 11:38 AM
BenchZowner:
"I'm 98% sure that it's a change from the engineers that made the "old" software not to function properly.
The Vddci, Vpci-express & Vmem work just fine, so unless I'm mistaken and my info is bad about Gigabyte fixing this, this shall be fixed soon with a new version of the utility by Gigabyte".

Hopefully!

Jor-El 04-22-2010 04:52 PM
Scratch that ^^

Tested my retail today and OC Guru software works fine, you can tune vgpu and vmem there, it's very good.

Did some air testing 1100/1400 today.


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