thanks for the reply dr... i was trying to "put nvidia in its place" to stop those shitty practices of downgrading its products just to justify making the not downgraded boards more expensive (i was going to buy an rtx 2060 super 8gb just to modify it) as i "did" with my amd radeon rx 460 4gb and but clearly i can't.. damn this shitty corporations and their shitty business models. Also, i see kefi (kefinator) is still around here, has he gotten back from limbo or were you talking about another guy/girl?
In case someone has has a different expeience and has already made the modification and it worked please tell me how and what exactly doid you do after the bios switch diverswise.
The 2060S is a 2070 in die name only. Just because both cards use TU106 silicon doesn't mean that all of the units on 2060S silicon are free of defects.
A long time ago, when quad-core CPUs were bleeding-edge, AMD released a 3-core CPU to bridge the gap between dual-core and quad-cores for those on a less-than-infinite budget. The Phenom X3 was, in theory, unlockable to re-enable the disabled core. I personally purchased around 50 of these CPUs and attempted to unlock every single one of them. I was buying 6 a month for most of a year and in hindsight, although about half of them "worked" as quad cores, time proved that many of those quad core Phenom X3s were unstable or ultimately a false economy.
Yes, it's true that sometimes manufacturers will label a fully-functioning part as a lesser part simply to meet market demand. Don't count on "sometimes" being very often. For the overwhelming majority of cases, things are branded as the best possible variant of what they are. AMD, Intel, Nvidia don't leave money on the table unnecessarily. If that 2060S could possibly have sold as a more profitable 2070, you know it would have been. Only marginal GPUs get cut and the 2070 was on sale almost all the way through the 2060S's sales life so I'll let you decide the reason your 2060S didn't make the cut to be a 2070.
I honestly miss the old days...
- 486's and Pentiums that would run at 50% overclocks simply by changing the FSB
- Celeron 300A @564MHz outperforming Pentium II 450 flagships by a wide margin.
- Adding 50% more clockspeed to an Athlon or Duron using a pencil to draw lines between dots on the CPU package
- Geforce2 and Geforce3 unlocks of disabled cores
- Radeon 9500 > 9700Pro mod using a single $0.04 resistor
- Low-end Core2 overclocks of over 50%
I'm trying to think about what the last decent overclockable or moddable hardware was, and it was probably at least a decade ago. These days you get what you pay for and all of the manfacturers make sure that nothing is left on the table because that's wasted profit.
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