No more overclocking from Nvidia

[SpeedZealot369]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: SpeedZealot369
The title scared meeeee

Almost pooped my pants

That's the idea with inquirer. It's like it's namesake, The National Inquirer, for technology.

The post title should say "nvidia disallowes factory oc'ing of cards"

 

[Pens1566]

Originally posted by: CaiNaM

Originally posted by: josh6079

Originally posted by: BFG10K
If true I think it's a good idea as it'll stop OEMs from trying to outdo each other at the expense of the customer stability. If I buy something I expect it to follow the rated specs and then it should be my decision whether to overclock.

^^^WHS.

Granted, for those who don't trust themselves to overclock, the previous 7 series and the wide varients of pre-OCed cards were a nice option to go with. Especially when companies like EVGA were supplying them.

yes, and we all know evga had no service problems with the 7 series that required rma's..... :roll:

7 series problems were on more than just EVGA, and on stock NVIDIA ref. speeds as well. It was bad memory.

 

[CKXP]

QFT...eVGA later replaced thier samsung chips with infineon, not sure if any other board parteners followed suite.

 

[redbox]

wasn't the problems mainly with the highly overclocked 7900gt's? IIRC the 7900gtx's didn't have too many problems. They both use the same chip just probably binned different and different voltages. Plus I always thought samsung chips where better than infins? I guess what I am asking here is what caused the faulty 79's? Was it bad gpu's, bad mem, not enough volts, bad bios, or just a mixture of all of those?

 

[pkrush]

I had one of the faulty GT's, and from what I can tell the problems were caused by pushing the RAM far enough beyond spec that it would start to error after a few days.

 

[hemmy]

I thought the same thing as CKXP when i read that - if the inq thinks they didn't allow 7950GX2 overclocking then that officially proves Fraud is an idiot