why underclock?

[sonofangron]

Hi, I'm quite a newbie to pc tech, and I was just wondering why Powercolor underclocked their video cards.

To increase the card's durability/longevity? So as to surpass warranty periods?

 

[miketheidiot]

wrong forum?

Edit: Your looking for This.

 

[LifeStealer]

Actually there isn't a forum for underclocking 😛

 

[Shenkoa]

Who would want to make their PC slower.

 

[Algere]

To sell their cards @ a cheaper price is my guess.

P.S. And/Or maybe they get more yields with a lower clockspeed.

 

[Corporate Thug]

exactly, by lowering the clock speeds, they have more usuable CPUs

 

[Shenkoa]

Good thinking.

 

[gwag]

most peps are buying the cheap cards, they use whats available to them at the time. what is the sheiat today is outdated tommorow in video card land.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Algere
To sell their cards @ a cheaper price is my guess.

P.S. And/Or maybe they get more yields with a lower clockspeed.

Probably along those lines - nVidia/ATi/Whatever makes some chips that don't clock as high as others, just like Intel and AMD. A wafer might yield a bunch of chips that can't perform at standard clock speeds, so they're sold for use in "SE" cards...or whatever they are termed now - slower, cheaper videocards.