Originally Posted by
Georgy291
er you do realise the higher the quality memory it is, the lower voltage it can run at. So poorer quality memory would require higher voltage. Think about it when you buy a new cpu and its a good binned one, you dont exactly stick load of voltage through it do you? the better one you get the lower voltage it can run at. So if they were lower quality then they would need to run at higher voltages.
also thats nonsense. Or atleast very very meaningless, since alot more likely is 6950s being binned cards. So they could have the same hardware, but what you have to understand when you manufacture these things yield (or production success) is not anywhere near 100%. (if you still dont get it, if you make 100 cards, not all of them going to be working) So what they did was used bios to slow them down (or disable unreliable shaders) and sell them for cheaper price.
this has been done before on so many different things that you dont realize. Alot of the athlon 64 x2 cpus were just different bins from exactly the same production line. The successful ones got the 7000 sticker, the unsuccessful ones were sold cheaper price.
another example is the new i5 cpus are done like that to. eg i5 2500 will be unsuccessful bin, where as the k version will be the better quality one sold for higher price.
fyi, im a electronic engineering student and i had to do alot of this research for a project.