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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (16 children)

lol this reminds me of whatever that card was back in the 2000's or so, where you could literally make a trace with a pencil to upgrade the version lower to the version higher.

[–] inclementimmigrant 11 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Yeah, those were the days when cost control was simply to use the same PCB but with just the traces left out. There were also quite a few cards that used the exact same PCB, traces intact, that you could simple flash the next tier card's BIOS and get significant performance bumps.

Did a few of those mods myself back in the day, those were fun times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (11 children)

Ok now how do I turn my 2070s into a 5090? 😅

[–] inclementimmigrant 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Well of you ask Nvidia it's now just the driver making frames for you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Ya I'm sad to see and exit. Maybe in a year or two I'll get that sapphire 7900 xtx or whatever it is.

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