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MSI and ASUS Send VGA Review Samples with Higher Clocks than Retail Cards
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Do you own a VW car ?
What does VW stand for?
Good on him to point this out, although as he says about the OC software, is not a big conspiracy of any kind.
It could be the difference between a lot of people buying one card over another. Many don't overclock, so just look at whatever card will give them more performance out of the box. A few extra fps on the benchmarks could be enough to tip the balance.
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smacks a lot of dishonesty as well
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I'm not sure how I feel, much like I had the same reaction when I got the letter from VW about my Golf being on their list of effected engines.
It's all down to what day to day problems it would cause, which in this case none for me, I could run the Gaming App and click one button, don't really feel cheated about that.
My opinion would be that setting review samples to OC mode as default just avoids the reviewers from missing the software or whatnot during testing. But you'd expect them to be told about it.
It's all down to what day to day problems it would cause, which in this case none for me, I could run the Gaming App and click one button, don't really feel cheated about that.
My opinion would be that setting review samples to OC mode as default just avoids the reviewers from missing the software or whatnot during testing. But you'd expect them to be told about it.
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Exactly this, although the overclock is hardly much of one,
I bought a 4gb MSI 770 gaming from OCUK a few years ago and it was quoted as having clockspeeds that were only obtainable if you installed the gaming app, I reported it to staff but it was never corrected on the store page.
Looks to me more likely they sent a review board out at a certain clockspeed, then realised they can't actually get a good yield of boards that will do that speed, so knocked it down a touch for retail to speed bin a larger number of boards.
It's not like they sent them in with huge OC's.
It's not like they sent them in with huge OC's.
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Both of mine work at the review clock speed and above. To get the review clock speed you just press a button in the Gaming App.
I think they just advertised the maximum and then made it easier for the reviewers to get that maximum by removing the software element so no one forgot.
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Pmsl, what a non story, as if thats going to make a diff 
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To be honest it's a non issue. You install the program, press the option and it runs at those speeds. Much like the advertised RGB feature on many cards requires the installation of a program, or to even get any performance out of a card you need to install the driver.
If required a BIOS flash it would be worth making some noise about as that is above what is expected of an end user.
If required a BIOS flash it would be worth making some noise about as that is above what is expected of an end user.