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"The OC version is overclocked higher out of the box than the standard versions. Otherwise, everything else is the same."

^^^^ Taken from the Asus UK forum, posted by a moderator. I will let you know when I watercool (EKWB pre-ordered) my non-OC version when/if it arrives.

Some people don't like the term 'overclocked' and would prefer stability over speed.
 
Gypsum Fantastic said:
Because the whole OC/non-OC situation has zero to do with the hardware and everything to do with buyer psychology. On the one hand the OC version offers buyers the ability to pay a bit more for what is essentially a non-service to anyone who can run a basic, lazy overclock themselves. Lots of people are terrified of overclocking. When I sold my last PC, the guy who bought it wanted me to de-overclock everything because he thought it might be a fire risk lol.

The second is it serves as an anchor point to make the non-OC version appear to be a slightly better deal to those less inclined to pay more. It’s win-win from a marketing psychology perspective. But we should not assume the cards are physically different in any way. Because they are not. Same chip, same bin, same PCB, same cooling, same 22-stage VRM, same caps, same everything. The cards are identical in every way barring the boost clock out of the box. Which you can beat with the non-OC version with three minutes of tweaking.

I’m not saying it’s fair. It’s a marketing trick designed to lead people to believe they’re getting something more than they are. It’s sneaky.
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again I am not arguing against any of that. I have said they are exactly the same cards but ASUs so far is only making oc versions and shipping them? Why? Money that’s why. That’s all I said.

people who bought non oc versions are rightly feeling a bit ****** off
 
Mike12345678 said:
"The OC version is overclocked higher out of the box than the standard versions. Otherwise, everything else is the same."

^^^^ Taken from the Asus UK forum, posted by a moderator. I will let you know when I watercool (EKWB pre-ordered) my non-OC version when/if it arrives.

Some people don't like the term 'overclocked' and would prefer stability over speed.
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Have you a link for the forum?

I have asked ASUS about the 3090s delivery's to the UK on twitter, but they don't answer.
 
Greebo said:
again I am not arguing against any of that. I have said they are exactly the same cards but ASUs so far is only making oc versions and shipping them? Why? Money that’s why. That’s all I said.

people who bought non oc versions are rightly feeling a bit ****** off
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Well, if they are doing that then the difference in margins for them is negligible, so it would probably have more to do with demand. After all, OcUK has stated that it is using its high preorder numbers as a negotiating position from which to attain more stock. ASUS knows which cards are in greater demand.

However, I still don’t believe they are necessarily holding back non-OC cards in favour of OC cards. The information they gave went thus: Yo, we sent a load of Strix OC cards to reatilers>What about non-OC?>That information was just for Strix cards.

And this is a matter of opinion at this point, but to me that does not say ‘We are not sending any non-OC cards, they will be sent out at a later date’. To ma that is an assumption and not explicitly stated. You are of course entitled to disagree and take it to mean whatever you like. ;)
 
I would imagine $30-50 per card is a massive amount compared to their margins on the cards normally. The fact you have people who decided to use one component over another in the design because it will save $0.005 but over 100,000s you are making that added up to a lot of money yet you are suddenly claiming that the massive amount of extra money they get from the OC is somehow irrelevant?
 
Has ASUS either made a statement on the difference between the stock and OC versions in terms of quality control, binning etc? I see a few statements and a comment by a moderator on ASUS forum but nothing official.
 
Jonjo69 said:
Never quiet got the idea of OC versions. You're often paying £50+ more for a factory overclock which you can beat using Afterburner in 15mins. I guess if 15mins. is worth 50 quid fine.
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It's if you want to play the silicon lottery.

I don't this time round. But I know the 3090 Strix OC can go up 480W.
So there is some head room.
 
deuse said:
It's if you want to play the silicon lottery.

I don't this time round. But I know the 3090 Strix OC can go up 480W.
So there is some head room.
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Again, if you read the statements thats not true. The only difference between non-OC and OC is the factory does the overclock for you. The binning is the same and the lottery's the same. A non-OC has the same chance of going to 480W as the OC.
 
Some people don’t want to run afterburner 24/7 just to have an OC. It’s nice to not worry about a software solution when it can come OC’d out of the box.
 
The only discernible difference according to Asus' website is the packaging. As there is nothing to differentiate on the physical card itself, no OC moniker for example, ASUS must be soak testing the final products before binning. I can't believe we would simply be paying for the privilege of having them overclocked at factory.. There has to be a difference.
 
Edlin said:
The only discernible difference according to Asus' website is the packaging. As there is nothing to differentiate on the physical card itself, no OC moniker for example, ASUS must be soak testing the final products before binning. I can't believe we would simply be paying for the privilege of having them overclocked at factory.. There has to be a difference.
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I would think that the cards that have a stable overclock during testing would be the oc versions and ones that don’t would be the stock version. Just my thoughts though seeing we have no information from the manufacturer.
 
Edlin said:
The only discernible difference according to Asus' website is the packaging. As there is nothing to differentiate on the physical card itself, no OC moniker for example, ASUS must be soak testing the final products before binning. I can't believe we would simply be paying for the privilege of having them overclocked at factory.. There has to be a difference.
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The difference is it's a better binned chip, that is all, so chances are it can overclock better.
It's the same with CPU SKUs too. That literally is the only difference - we are paying for the fact its a better chip (even if its marginal) and runs at slightly higher clocks.
If the non OC can't maintain what the OC can do, then clearly that is what we are paying for. :-)
 
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