Greetings TH Forum members!
I sort of hastily performed a silly "side-grade" with my GPU. I picked up a lightly used Asus ENGTX465 Voltage Tweak Edition on ebay for $51 USD shipped. I currently have an XFX HD4890 Extreme Edition in my system. My logic was "Hey, it's only $51 bucks, and I'll gain DX11 and SM 4.0 for Battlefield 3 (which I run on the 4890 right now in DX10.1), plus CUDA for Maya 2011". I originally paid $75 USD for the 4890; and I'll likely sell it (on ebay) for as close to that as I can get back on the initial investment. As I understand from reading around, the GTX465 is only marginally - if not negligibly - faster than the 4890.
I'm now reading that some of the 465's that came out can unlock to 470's if you get the luck of the draw and have one with the 10 memory chips on board. I know that Asus themselves were also even bundling software with their 465's that was supposedly there to use in trying to unlock your card if you were one of the lucky folks that got one capable of doing so.
So, my question is: Can anyone here report success with unlocking an Asus brand GTX465 to the 470? I'm not counting on it personally. It won't be a deal breaker for me if I can't, because I wasn't expecting much more than a DX11/SM4.0 capable card that was similar to the one I have already. But for $51 USD, if I end up with a GTX470 in the end, plus the cash back from selling my original card, that wouldn't be too bad in my eyes. Bear in mind that I really don't have the expendable finances to shell out for a better GPU, like a higher end 5xx series Nvidia or 6xxx ATI at the moment.
I'm hoping someone may be kind enough to assist. If so, I really appreciate it and offer my humble thanks in advance.
I sort of hastily performed a silly "side-grade" with my GPU. I picked up a lightly used Asus ENGTX465 Voltage Tweak Edition on ebay for $51 USD shipped. I currently have an XFX HD4890 Extreme Edition in my system. My logic was "Hey, it's only $51 bucks, and I'll gain DX11 and SM 4.0 for Battlefield 3 (which I run on the 4890 right now in DX10.1), plus CUDA for Maya 2011". I originally paid $75 USD for the 4890; and I'll likely sell it (on ebay) for as close to that as I can get back on the initial investment. As I understand from reading around, the GTX465 is only marginally - if not negligibly - faster than the 4890.
I'm now reading that some of the 465's that came out can unlock to 470's if you get the luck of the draw and have one with the 10 memory chips on board. I know that Asus themselves were also even bundling software with their 465's that was supposedly there to use in trying to unlock your card if you were one of the lucky folks that got one capable of doing so.
So, my question is: Can anyone here report success with unlocking an Asus brand GTX465 to the 470? I'm not counting on it personally. It won't be a deal breaker for me if I can't, because I wasn't expecting much more than a DX11/SM4.0 capable card that was similar to the one I have already. But for $51 USD, if I end up with a GTX470 in the end, plus the cash back from selling my original card, that wouldn't be too bad in my eyes. Bear in mind that I really don't have the expendable finances to shell out for a better GPU, like a higher end 5xx series Nvidia or 6xxx ATI at the moment.
I'm hoping someone may be kind enough to assist. If so, I really appreciate it and offer my humble thanks in advance.
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