the54thvoid You could also look at it this way. Why does AMD charge more for an 8GB card when they ship the same hardware on the "4 GB" version and just hide it in the BIOS?

This would be overcharging on the 8GB part because they won't sell them (4GB) at a loss.



They ought to address this before people start fiddling with things they might not really understand.

You can ask the same question about lots of different hardware. You can ask why they charge more for Top end GPU, when the chip is exactly the same in the second best GPU, maybe with some components disabled but cost wise it should be the same. Thats how the industry works, Bigger numbers sell.Same with memory sticks, theres less chips on high density memory but they still charge more, and sometimes a lot more. Companies rarely pass on savings, at least for the first few years.Anyway, AMD (or whoever) will just say something like " Well some of the chips were not running up to spec so we had to disable them"I dont think this will be possible for much longer, They probably just didnt have enough 4 GB versions so this was a quick fix but once production ramps up it wont be an issue.Or there is a possibility AMD did it on purpose for some positive marketing. We've seen this kind of thing before, with bios updates unlocking cores or shaders or whatever.