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    NGreedia did it again

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Danishblunt, Oct 30, 2018.

  1. Danishblunt

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    http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Gefor.../Nvidia-BIOS-Mod-Powerlimit-erhoehen-1268042/

    Yes you read corrrecly, now we get locked powerlimit and locked voltage on desktop cards. All desktop cards which are graded "non GPU-A" are basicially equal to MXM versions which we had on pascal.
    If you purchase a "GPU-A" GTX 2080 TI it will run significantly better than a "non GPU-A" GTX 2080 TI, because the non version will get castrated power limits.

    Well done Ngreedia.

    Give nGreedia more money or you get nerfed card.
     
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  2. Dr. AMK

    Dr. AMK Living with Hope

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    forum.notebookreview.com/threads/nvidia-is-crowned-the-smartest-company-in-the-world-right-now-nvidia.806608
     
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    bennyg Notebook Virtuoso

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    So cross flashing in software doesn't work with device id mismatch, same as with pascal - is there any idea yet if directly programming is still a bypass to this "security" bs? And allow a A (xxx7) vbios to work on a non-A card
     
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    Hardware ID is usually set with resistors, so with luck, you can still change resistors(due to how people where turned GTX's in Quadro GPU's and the big 30+ pages topic about that at EEVBlog), if they went full greed, Hardware ID is set by a couple balls in the GPU carrier pcb/a couple tracks that are laser trimmed/cut and its a done deal that is a lot harder to change, if at all.
     
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    ooooh i was wondering what that "A" suffix meant! now i know! :)
     
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    If anybody will figure out how to crack this, it’s @Khenglish
     
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    i dont see a need for that yet though. while looking through GPU listings, i see the following:

    2080 Ti: 2 non-A vs. 36 A models = 5% locked
    2080: 5 non-A vs. 43 A models = 10% locked
    2070: 4 non-A vs. 31 A models = 11% locked

    so still lots of cards to choose from. HOWEVER, the fact that we are even talking about this on DESKTOP cards is disconcerting, to say the least!
     
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    Hardware ID has been flashed into the core since Maxwell. Resistors last determined the full ID on Kepler cards.
     
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