Re:Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can al...
by nitrogen on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @03:29PM
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Functionally most of the electronics you buy are capable of more. Take a look at this: http://hackaday.com/2013/03/18/hack-removes-firmware-crippli.... Okay, so what happens? Either everything's great and you got a free upgrade or the thing has a bad shader or memory chip and now you have an unreliable card.
Another thing you might see in a substantially similar hardware product line is that resistors indicate the hardware model, but the lesser models are missing essential components that are present in the higher models. Sure, the firmware will think it's running on the higher model if you swap out the resistors, but it'll promptly crash when it can't find that DAC and EEPROM that are supposed to be there.
Another thing you might see in a substantially similar hardware product line is that resistors indicate the hardware model, but the lesser models are missing essential components that are present in the higher models. Sure, the firmware will think it's running on the higher model if you swap out the resistors, but it'll promptly crash when it can't find that DAC and EEPROM that are supposed to be there.