The OP is blatantly stating there are power saving features on this card but they in fact only serve to benifit a stress test. According to you somehow limiting my overclock potential is beneficial even though this feature has zero effect on cards not running furmark or some kind of overly intense stress test.
Realizing a program has the ability to burn your cards up and doing something about it is not saving me any power where it counts and in turn serves to limit overclocks more than protect the end user.
Thanks Ben but your logic is flawed on this one.
First, the purpose of power consumption protection doesn't seem to be saving electricity, but more like preventing the card from drawing excessive electricity. I don't know what games you play and how often your video card ends up 100% load. Usually, stress program will do that, and therefore the protection kicks in. You somehow confused this as it only works when the card is stressed without knowing that most of the application you use doesn't really stress the video card much.
Put it this way. I can clock my video card to an extend that it will run WoW fine, but won't survive futuremark. Without thinking I brought the latest and greatest game that is known to be a video card burner, ran the game and in no time my video card dies. Now if power consumption protection will prevent the card from instant death in this case, then it is a great idea.
The reason why manufacturer chooses to not include this may be due to cost knowing people, like your kind, will probably won't pay an extra 10 bucks on something that they will probably remove from day 1.
IMO this is a smart design as the amount of electricity going into the card is proportional to the heat generated by the card. Since they know the radiate compacity of the heat sink, they know how much electricity the card can take without damaging it. With that protection installed, overclocker can play with whatever settings they like without the need to worry about killing the card(In theory of course).
Their desire to lock modification abilities will not be hidden by some power saving ploy, maybe on you yes but not me. Nvidia knows they have some serious headroom on their chips and they're doing what they can to limit the overclocks now.
Like it's really any surprise only reference models have this feature while custom vendors are avoiding it?
Alright Mr breaker panels.
I believe that is your own opinion. You can clock it up as high as you want with 8800GTS and 560 will still single hand beat it. Yes we can OC a 460 to match a stock 560, but it isn't easy, and that is without any protection.
You seems to think that dynamic voltage adjustment was in the computer world since stone age. The only problem of dynamic voltage adjustment is monkey see, monkey do, the 570 thread is a good example. I'm not trying to say people who OC 570 are dumb, but if there are so many overclocking tools (softwares) that people can download, how can manufacturer prevent 1d10t user errors? Experts like you, or any overclockers who actually knows a thing or 2 would be able to remove whatever protection there is to proceed with their goal as nothing a solder iron can't fix. Such protection does serves as a fail safe feature for dummies and average Joes.
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