HD5970 Reviews

[Solus Corvus]

I am not saying they SHOULD. What I was saying is that AMD provided it to reviewers, reviewers used it in their articles and based part of their conclusions off of software that would not be available to the general public. Indeed, ATI dedicated a number of marketing slides to Hemlock's overclocking ability but the only way one can achieve those overclocks is to bump voltage into the chips.

Just because they aren't providing end users with the official ATI made tool doesn't mean they aren't trying to provide a way for its users to tweak voltages. Since the warranty is up to each AIB, it's probably up to each one to decide if they will provide an "official" voltage tweak tool or not. Essentially it would be a legal CYA for ATI while still providing the functionality you'd need to extract as much possible from the card. The tgdaily article reinforces that impression:

"We've built all of this headroom into the board itself, and we're also doing some special stuff in the software as well. The bar in the ATI Overdrive utility goes higher than ever before, and we're working with some of our AIB partners on software that will unlock even more overclocking potential through voltage tweaking applications," added Nekechuk.