Quote Originally Posted by Tuvok-LuR- View Post
actually, there's no problem in bringing to the average Joe an auto-overclocking and dummyproof performance increase
what makes it a cheat and a **** is:
- it's not documented/advertised by nvidia
- the driver reports the non-overclocked frequency
so basically looks like nvidia wants to hide this and make people think their cards at stock frequencies are faster then they actually are.
The same average joe you speak of wouldn't know how to check the driver for the non-overclocked frequency in the first place. Also, linkboost IS an advertised feature, this is just the first card to truly take advantage of the increased PCI-E frequency.

Finally, stock is stock. You take your card, pull it out of the box, put it in your computer and run it? That's stock. All this means is, stock speed on a NVidia chipset is different than stock speed on a different chipset.

Personally, I really like the idea of the new feature, as I'm sure a lot of people here will.

I do want to know one thing though.....

Why doesn't the guru3d testing show the same issue?. Guru3d use rivatuner in their sli review of the 9600GT to show temps(page 4 of the review), which is done on a 680i. The inno3d card is still at 700mhz, using the same tool tech powerup said showed the issue.... So can someone explain what's going on here with this?