NVIDIA's shady trick to boost the GeForce 9600GT

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Also, linkboost IS an advertised feature, this is just the first card to truly take advantage of the increased PCI-E frequency.

It does not take advantage of the increased PCI-E frequency, it takes advantage of the increased GPU 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.

So that's not shady at all?
The point is, if nobody would have spotted this thing:
average joe goes on the web, looks for vgas benches, finds a 9600gt bench on 680i with linkboost enabled, thinks, wow, that card is fast!
Average Joe buys a 9600gt for his P35 mobo.
Average Joe PC will perform lower than what he thought