What I want to know now - maybe JPM or F$ or Zombie or somebody else knows - is this stupid limitation on crunching a software limitation? Like a BIOS/firmware or driver issue that could be altered or remedied is some way? Or is it a hardware limitation where nVidia somehow screw with the chip just to make sure that crunching with the card is impossible.
The whole thing just stinks. It's one thing not to have the technology period. It's another thing for that technology to be "present" but out of reach financially to all but giant corporations or Gov entities such as NASA. It is quite another thing altogether for the technology to be present, and financially accessible...and then denied the consumer because of stupidity and uber greed on the part of the corporation who makes it. I'm not against them making a profit. I am against them scalping me because I want to use the CUDA portion of their technology whch EVERY ad of theirs boasts about.
I think my next GPU may have to be an AMD just for the principle of it. Is the 7970 turning out to be that hot of a card on Moo! or Donate or whatever the hot AMD/ATI project flavor of the month is?