[Patch]

Guys, the lightning price premium is for power circuitry. And it's appropriate. Still need to bin the GPU.

There's no friggin way any company would be able to recoup the cost of true binning from consumers on anything more than very limited samples for advertising and reviews. They would lose money.

[Chuchnit]

Originally Posted by Patch

Guys, the lightning price premium is for power circuitry. And it's appropriate. Still need to bin the GPU.

There's no friggin way any company would be able to recoup the cost of true binning from consumers on anything more than very limited samples for advertising and reviews. They would lose money.

Pretty much the gospel right there buddy. My beef, and it is a small one, is with the way they go about marketing it. Actually with the way Nvidia does their binning on GF100-110 it should be possible if SF3D's P-state research is true in large scale. The problem is MSI is at the will of nvidia as far as agreeing to sale high leakage GPU's. Then if Nvidia is willing to do that, how much more are they gonna want to charge for a premium. Then there ya go with the price still going up up up.....

[Witchdoctor]

Originally Posted by Patch

Guys, the lightning price premium is for power circuitry. And it's appropriate. Still need to bin the GPU.

There's no friggin way any company would be able to recoup the cost of true binning from consumers on anything more than very limited samples for advertising and reviews. They would lose money.

Yea I agree that is a huge part of the cost, That being said though, with a dog GPU what good is it?