Geforce Titan - GK110 will be a consumer part

[zalbard]

Overvolting overclockers are not the reference target market for anyone that I know of.

Have no clue how you'd answer a board of directors asking why you're making $300 a card using more costly components instead $350 a card using cheaper components. That's $50,000 profit lost per 1000 units to appeal to a market that a. may not matter when looking at 670/680 sales b. certainly raises return costs

We pretty much know that if they used the components necessary to clock it 100MHz higher, you'd just use that as your start point and try to get the same 300MHz or whatever and then say it's a bad OCer.

Appealing to OCers makes no business sense I see- they're too small a market. (and no offense intended, don't care what you do with your card obviously)

I think you are forgetting Intel and AMD supporting overclocks for decades without any shenanigans. Truth be told, Nvidia is the first company making high-end PC components to start screwing overclockers over. There is no way around it.

We can still buy unlocked CPUs from both Intel and AMD at reasonable prices. 99% of motherboards allow for overclocking. There is tons of overclocker-targeted RAM on the market. And Radeons overclock just fine. Nobody else is complaining. Hell, there are even software ways to overclock phones and notebooks these days.

So yes, it's just Nvidia. And I see no reason to support them in this decision.