3.5

>>57263191
Because the card was designed with 3.5+0.5 in some wierd fuckabout way

>>57263191
They wanted to save money.

>>57266509
The goy know!

>>57263191
The problem was in the way the GPU accesses the memory, not in the sheer quantity that was on board. They couldn't do shit, the GPU would need to be redesigned.

>>57263191
if they un-disabled the disabled memory bus and shader units it would just be a 980.

>>57263191
uh, literally the only thing the manus do is put different cooling on it. they're not allowed to deviate from the set pcb one chip

>>57266658
Any aftermarket oc 970 practically was a 980 since there was barely a ~10% difference between a 970 and 980. There's a reason they made the 1080 like 20% more powerful than the 1070, because they want people to actually buy it instead of buying a 1070 for way cheaper and slapping an OC on it to match a 1080.

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It requires a redesign of the silicon itself - the memory modules aren't the issue, its how the the chip accesses them.

>>57263191
because they would need to alter the chips
>>57268416
this
I think the L2 module actually exists but it is lasercut

>>57268804

> lasercut

Of course it is otherwise bios modding could (potentially) enable it.

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>>57266846
>10%
closer to 25% fan

>>57266658
>un-disabled
lol, you mean enabled