Unlocking the GeForce 6800

Timmus writes "Firingsquad is running a story on how to unlock all 16 pipelines in nVidia's GeForce 6800. By default the card only ships with 12 pixel pipelines enabled, but with a tool and a few mouse clicks, the card can be unlocked to run with all 16 pipes. Performance improvements are seen everywhere, so it's a pretty nice free upgrade. These cards are currently selling for $200 online, so a 16-pipe GeForce 6800 delivers great bang for the buck."

Comments

I turned

[Jozer99]

I turned my 6800 into a Radeon 9700 Pro with my 1337 sk1lz!

I'll wait a while..

[Anonymous Coward]

till they unlock 64 pipelines.

Actually the 6800 has 64 pipes

[Anonymous Coward]

And shipping processors only have 12 pipelines enabled. A member of the G70 team told me they sat around all this time smoking dope and doing nothing and they only have to short a small jumper block on the 6800 card to enable the new goodness and look like engineering champs.

6800?

[Rorschach1]

Pff. I'll save my money for the Radeon 6502.

Re:Nice Work!

[stratjakt]

Yeah, these types of mods are old hat. Go look for the Radeon 9500 to 9700 mods, etc. Unlocking pipelines is as old news as overclocking, and it results in a whole bunch of 'l337 g4m0r' kids with dead video cards.

What the hell is this "confirm im not a script" crap, anyways?

Re:Same thing with a new BMW 3-Series

[fwitness]

Yep, all the Beamer-owners I know are cost cautious. They love to save a buck. Hell, most of 'em take the "BMW" logo off, I mean who cares about the a silly brand name? I bought this for the *performance* man.

Apple

[ylon]

How can this be accomplished on Mac OS X on a Power Mac?