Having capacitors that can't handle past 2Ghz clock is not a defect. The boost algorithm letting it go past 2GHz is the defect (amongst certainly other defects in play here).
Sorry, seen posts like this and your reply to me, it's a defect. The cards are a package... whetehr you ignore it to protect nvidia or not... the AIB's are allowing a none reference and cheap components on HIGH end equipment and theyv'e been caught out, simple as that. If BMW puts out a car and it has a faulty airbag, whether it's made by them or not it's a recall into BMW for the fix etc, they take responsibility, not the air bag company. The AIB's have put cheap capacitors on their cards, it's as simple as that
This is AIB's trying to cut costs, putting cheap parts on the gear and thinking they could get away with it... they allow their cards to boost and without adacute testing, they fail due to not being able to handle the speeds they're allowing their cards to go to.
This is a major manufactoring defect because it's against reference design and corner cutting. believe what you will, the FACT is the cards have a defect, and thus simply putting a BIOS update to limit the boost now, is just a failsafe and hiding a fundamental manufactoring issue. However, if you believe that it's asfotware, fine with me, explain that to someone who's now got a £800 card, that he thought would boost safely because it was manufactored corecttly and now he can't... mmmm yeah, sure he wants that to be a software problem. If those capacitors are 100% to blame, and replacing them with what should've been there in the first place fixes that problem it has jack to do with software. Software BIOS upgrades is simply hiding the flaw.