LIGHTNING competitor - Gigabyte SOC2 5870 - Page 3

ReverendMaynard · #21 04-20-2010

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Originally Posted by Splave

jesus christ, what are these companies doing

Shitting where they eat?

FACE · #22 04-20-2010

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Originally Posted by ReverendMaynard

Shitting where they eat?

More like trying to shit where WE eat, missing, and end up eating it themselves...

Splave · #23 04-20-2010

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Originally Posted by FACE411

More like trying to shit where WE eat, missing, and end up eating it themselves...

seriously, where is my toothbrush

Hondacity · #24 04-20-2010

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..

Patch · #25 04-20-2010

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 · #26 04-20-2010

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Originally Posted by Patch

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".

Hondacity · #27 04-20-2010

msi and gigabyte has been tight lipped about special stuff...unless given to their posterboys hicookie and some.

they're partners with hwbot!!!

2chesapeakes · #28 04-20-2010

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Originally Posted by Jor-El

^^ 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 · #29 04-20-2010

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 · #30 04-22-2010

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.