I remember back in the day you could buy a hard drive that was shown on the box as having a something like 300 MB capacity, then when you opened the box you found out it actually had 500 MB capacity - because the advances in manufacturing were outpacing their ability to print new boxes.
Kind of unimaginable these days, since you’d expect it to be artificially limited to 300 MB, even if the hardware could support 500.
Like how on the 970(?), on some video cards, you could overclock it into being a 970Ti if you were lucky, since it was before they started lasering parts off the chips to stop people doing that to lower-grade cards, and binning was just a matter of whether it passed muster or not to match the requirements for the higher-grade cards. They could sometimes be pushed to that level, just not reliably for all of them.
I remember back in the day you could buy a hard drive that was shown on the box as having a something like 300 MB capacity, then when you opened the box you found out it actually had 500 MB capacity - because the advances in manufacturing were outpacing their ability to print new boxes.
Damn we had it good then.
Kind of unimaginable these days, since you’d expect it to be artificially limited to 300 MB, even if the hardware could support 500.
Like how on the 970(?), on some video cards, you could overclock it into being a 970Ti if you were lucky, since it was before they started lasering parts off the chips to stop people doing that to lower-grade cards, and binning was just a matter of whether it passed muster or not to match the requirements for the higher-grade cards. They could sometimes be pushed to that level, just not reliably for all of them.