why underclock?

sonofangron

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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?
 

Algere

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

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

gwag

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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 what is the sheiat today is outdated tommorow in video card land.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

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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.