Asus and MSI caught sending reviewers higher clocked cards than retail

I think they over-overclock, since they sell cards above stock clock and run a BIOS overclocking that, AFAIU.
 
Actually depending on how large the company is, it probably started like this :)

Boss: "Hey our biggest competitors are getting nasty press about sending modified cards..... do we do that as well?"
 
(mods please move if there's already a thread for cases like this)

http://www.techpowerup.com/223440/m...-samples-with-higher-clocks-than-retail-cards

MSI has been doing it at least since GTX 7xx / R9 2xx -era, possibly even earlier, Asus started it with GTX 980 Ti and now continues with 1080.

Basically, they send reviewers cards which are by default set to "OC"-clock-profile, which runs faster than the standard "Gaming"-profile, which the retail cards ship with. The "OC"-profile is available for regular users too, but only if they install the manufacturers own app which lets you switch between silent/gaming/oc modes
This was just wrong to manipulate the BIOS voltage and clocks.
 
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