News - Can the Nvidia GTX 680 be BIOS flashed into a GTX 770?

[shaithis]

Completely fail if they price it at £400, and then the 770ti AKA 670 at £300, I mean what is the point of these cards?

To keep shafting customers.

The 600 is already ridiculously overpriced compared to past generations.....and now they are going to flog the cashcow a bit more.

[HalloweenJack]

Not at all. Their initial news post stated the same as the Reddit guy was saying. They edited it an hour or so later with the new BIOS versions that they hashed up themselves, including an HD8970, once they had checked out the 'fake' BIOS.

and if you read on I also changed what I said as well....

[Andi-C]

Another nvid fail ! Bet the fan boys will still snap them up....

[Jingee]

You can OC a GTX670 to be faster than a stock GTX680...

Then you can also overclock a GTX680 to be even faster....

True dat. I'm just still a little bitter that Microdirect cancelled my GTX680 order on release, 2 weeks after placing it, and receive no reason as to why.

[genkifd]

actually good new imo - however how stable will this new higher clocks will the 680 be?

[Devastater6194]

Think i'm going AMD next upgrade. Rehashed over priced and limited over clocking. Honestly can't see why i bought a 680 now except for heat and power.

[Jasp]

Thought most of this was already know, rock paper shotgun had an interesting article on it the other day, if sources are correct the 780 is going to be a binned titan with certain things turned off.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...raphics-cards/

[shaithis]

Thought most of this was already know, rock paper shotgun had an interesting article on it the other day, if sources are correct the 780 is going to be a binned titan with certain things turned off.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...raphics-cards/

So, a potentially failed version of a card that should have cost ~£400.

Wonder how much nVidia will sell them for.......

[kalniel]

So, a potentially failed version of a card that should have cost ~£400.

Wonder how much nVidia will sell them for.......

About £400

It's a nice chip for people who want to do more compute - other nVidia cards have rather crippled compute performance compared to AMDs offerings. But as most people aren't, and most games don't need it (at the moment) it's fair enough that the other cards don't really bother. Things will be interesting in the next few generations when ports from the PS4/Infinity come over, but by then nVidia will have new cards out of course so it kind of doesn't matter.

[MrVoice]

Um, Nvidia has done this time and again in the last decade. Any research at all would've uncovered that.

[kalniel]

Um, Nvidia has done this time and again in the last decade. Any research at all would've uncovered that.

Yes, and they've maybe done it again, which is the point of the news

[loyal986]

Nvidia fool me once shame on you at 8000 series, fool me twice shame on me...

[Willzzz]

Quite frankly anyone who buys any GPU based on name only is a fool.

[Johansen2012]

After reading this test i got interested in boosting my GPU's , I have 2 xZotac 680 gtx Sli . I flashed those with 680gtx AMP bios , This is running really smooth in Sli and got my 3D mark Vantage score up from 39k too 42k . Maybe overclock would do the same , but i didnt reserched that yet , so this was a really easy way of getting more out of gtx 680