If you buy the card and go over the limit, is anyone going to RMA your card? I don't think so.
There was supposed to be a failsafe, which obviously didn't work, but that still doesn't justify going over the suggested maximum voltage. It was there for a reason.
They don't make those guides just for fun and if I were an NVIDIA employee, I certainly wouldn't appreciate someone damaging my product, just because he felt like it.
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