what is the difference between hardware wise in a DX9 vs DX10 Card?

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#1 happy2012
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I was wondering if you could flash the bios of your DX9 video card  to use DX10 and if not why?
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#2 LordEC911
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I was wondering if you could flash the bios of your DX9 video card to use DX10 and if not why?happy2012

No, it is a whole new architecture. Too much stuff built into the card/core.
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so it is something different on the card than just being more powerful card that alouds it to uses DX10.
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so it is something different on the card than just being more powerful card that alouds it to uses DX10.happy2012
new architectures, SM4.0, etc etc. Yes pretty much a whole new card.