Have to agree. I have nvidia uk on facebook. Several times I have commented on a pic posted r.e. my annoyance that the cards are limited to 1.175v. Not a single person even acknowledges me, lol!
It's just full of people spouting "zomgz, nvidia so cool, brah!" and "zomgz dat 690 is so powerbru!"
I don't want to wind anybody up with what i'm about to say.
I will start by saying that AMD Cards on release were horrendously overpriced, they took advantage of there status at the time as (the most powerful single GPU)
AMD's Drivers for a long time were hopeless, Crap, Broken, Under-performing, Annoying.... need i go on...... Yes i will, the only reason AMD undercut Nvidia is because they know it's the only way they will sell anything.
Right, now that i have that out of the way let me also say this.
Nvidia only putting 2GB on thier GTX 680's is less to do with it being (good enough) and far more about lower costs = higher profit.
Chipping away at your ability overclock them is also about increasing profits.
They don't actually care about what you or i think about overclocking, not when they have every 2 penny reviewer masturbating over Nvidia for out pacing AMD's early on (AMD only have themselves to blame for that) with those reviews widely used to hammer that point home where it is often a sport to bash AMD, it's fashionable in a lot of circles to do that even today where Nvidia have no performance advantage over AMD at all.
you have to hand it to Nvidia, their marketing, and the way they go about that is awesome.
They can sell you a dead horse, well not in this forum but if you look around forums and you can see what i mean.
They have a vast army of followers who have an endless supply of links to back up their claims.
All thing considered why should they give a #### what the intelligent few think.
Their cards being less and less appealing to you will not effect their profit margins they gain by turning their cards average and boring.
Because for every one who like you says "hang on, whats going on here? they have done this now, and that" a thousand will pull up some random bedroom review and say "look Nvidia are awesome, cool dude, and AMD are so much slower, and rubbish, and Nvidia has Physx to"
Nvidia are a busniss, they aim to make money and please their investors.
It's the consumer who dictate all of that, so it's the consumer who dictates the direction of that company.
I hope i'm right in thinking that AMD know they cannot afford to lose the enthusiasts (overclocking crowd) market.
Nvidia think they can, or wont, I hope they're wrong to!
