If the 780ti is just a 780 with the GK110 fully unlocked... why can't you unlock the 780 into a 780ti?

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Title says it all. I've heard multiple times, multiple places, that the 780ti uses the same PCB and has the same GPU chip as the vanilla 780, but the 780 is 'detuned' and the 780ti is 'fully unlocked'...

Why can't you simply take a standard 780 and tell it to act like a 780ti?

Reminds me of bullsh!t way back in the day with IBM selling mainframes with 32mb of RAM, offering a super expensive upgrade to 64mb, which was done by a tech showing up and moving one jumper to unlock the RAM you already physically had. This is what I feel Nvidia is doing with these chips and their cuda cores.
 
Nvidia and AMD both spend a lot of money on research and development. Over the years, you will always see incremental leaps forward from each company. This is done to maximize the profits gained from all of that R&D. They need a new product on the market sooner than they can design and build a whole new chip.
 

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I'm not asking why they do releases like this, I'm asking if it's possible to take a 780 and unlock the GK110 on it rather than buy a whole new card. So far all I've gotten is a 'no, they use lazorz' with no references or citations...