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    The GTS and The GTX.

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by ChristmasGT, Feb 8, 2008.

  1. ChristmasGT

    ChristmasGT Notebook Consultant

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    I've been looking alot at the GTS and the GTX, the only difference at all appears to be the shaders, what i'm wondering is if its possible to actually Flash the Bios of a GTS and make it a GTX similar to some of the 7900 Models.

    That or could it possibly be the GTS's are GTX's that couldn't cut it? The only laptop I can think of that actually runs an 8800 GTS is the Gateway, pretty much everyone else (dell, Sager, Alienware) all run GTX's.

    What do you guys think? They share the same Clocks, and Bandwidth, but just differ in shaders.
     
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  2. dragonteeth5

    dragonteeth5 Notebook Geek

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    em the HP HDX had u forgot it? And i seen some of the GTX score with the penryn and the one with the GTS. Its just like the difference of the 8600m GT ddr2 and the 8600m gt ddr3. isnt that much of a big deal.
     
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  3. Paul386

    Paul386 Notebook Evangelist

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    They cannot be flashed to be identical.
     
    Paul386, Feb 9, 2008
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    narsnail Notebook Prophet

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    ic....

    i dont know whether Nvidia just disabled the stream processcors or just made 64 on the chip instead of 96. but i doubt they would be stupid enough just to disable, because im sure someone would have figured that out by now.
     
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    Actually, nVidia has been disabling parts for quite sometime. They are simply laser cut/otherwise made inoperable. It would actually be stupider (and far more expensive) to make multiple versions of the same core, rather than make one large core and just turn parts of. I will guarantee that the g92 cores of the GTS and GTX are identical, with just parts disabled...
     
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  6. venkol

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    Usually lower end chips are higher end chips with manufacturing defects. A batch of GTXs comes off the line with a few bad stream preprocessors, don't pitch them,instead disable the bad chips and call them GTS.
     
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  7. ChristmasGT

    ChristmasGT Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah that's what I was thinking, back in the 6800 days when they were just bios disabled everyone and their grandma was doing bios flashes, but yeah I bet these are GTX's with Laser cut pipes
     
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  8. venkol

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    I remember those days, "magically" turning my vanilla 6800 into a 6800GT which cost an extra three hundred at the time. :) It was very hit or miss if it worked, mainly because some had to be cut because the extra pipes were defective.
     
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    Out of curiosity I wonder if these can be Bios Voltmodded like the 7900 GS's, I got some rediculous Clocks in my E1705 I bet the same could be said for the GTS's
     
    ChristmasGT, Feb 9, 2008
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