NVIDIA's shady trick to boost the GeForce 9600GT

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And btw, who said that RivaTuner is the ultimate tool for Nvidia cards? It's just a program made by a russian dude to overclock cards. If no other tool out there confirms this I'm not buying it...

the whole fact is not based on rivatuner's readings (that are actually wrong as well), they only started to raise doubts, confirmed by the fill rate benchmarks, so there's no way this can be all false.
I don't see how this can be a good thing for the users since, if they are gonna set an auto overclock on their cards this means that they can all run at that speed...and if they can all run at that speed why not release the cards with that clock?