Quote Originally Posted by Monstru View Post
But wait, YOU can take control and push it to the max. Which brings us to the very beginning of the conversation - it does not overclock itself
Excuses excuses. You say that it can overclock safely without issues. I called shens. Anandtech and LH have said the same. It throttles performance due to VRM temps once clock speeds / voltage is increased and that has now been proven. As such, it was NOT meant to have "massive overclocking headroom".

You asked for proof ATI claiming this card has massive overclocking headroom. I showed you just that.

It doesn't matter what the end user does. What matters is that ATI is CLAIMING their card can do something that it CAN'T because of current cooling limitations. That isn't me BSing you or anything else; it is written as plain as day on the ATI website. It is those same statements that AIBs take and write directly onto their packaging and send out as information to be posted as a product description on Newegg, NCIX, etc. Marketing, advertising, it doesn't matter because in the end it will be filtered down to consumers who don't know it is false information.