ECS shipping 8800GT with "upgradeable" memory

[wonderlust]

Buy a 256Mb card (card actually has 512Mb fitted but half is disabled!), flash the bios and get 512Mb! :D

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/705/1/

[marsey99]

you think they ran out of 256 cards :D

i love it when this happens, just a shame i dont need another gpu.

[coiler]

but the chance of them all having the extra memory is quite a risk when purchasing one?!

[PeterStoba]

Old news!

[00mike000]

lol alot of people will try this and realise they actually have a 256mb one

[Mul.]

Hopefully people will verify that they physically have 512mb before attempting the BIOS flash. Very interesting find regardless

[wonderlust]

The article states that it has been done to get around possible price fixing by nvidia