Geforce GTS 450 appears on shelves

[trinibwoy]

It's not like the comparison is fair or not. The main point is that the GTS450 draws more power for marginally less performance, and that anyone who can buy a 5770 can OC it to clear the difference for roughly the same price.

Agreed. That certainly wasn't the "main point" that was being argued though.

Maybe not from a performance point of view, the numbers do not change. But think about it. People look for numbers, do you think that overclocked edition vs. silent edition is anywhere near apples to apples comparison number wise?

Now to the point. Why on earth do these sites even compare OC edition cards to vanilla cards? People care about numbers, so doesn't the OC edition quite much skew the numbers? But hey, it's no secret that the companies themselves ship the OC edition cards to the sites to be reviewed. Even THEY understand that it skews the numbers for them.

I'm not sure what numbers you're referring to. Price is the only number that matters. Are you saying that reviewing a $130 reference GTS 450 is more "fair" than reviewing a $135 factory overclocked one? Why is that? More than half the 450's on newegg are at higher than reference clocks.