Asus and MSI caught sending reviewers higher clocked cards than retail

[Rodéric]

I think they over-overclock, since they sell cards above stock clock and run a BIOS overclocking that, AFAIU.

 

[Ryan Smith]

I think they over-overclock, since they sell cards above stock clock and run a BIOS overclocking that, AFAIU.

Correct.

 

[Deleted member 2197]

EVGA was one of the first graphics card companies to offer overclocked graphics cards, and since day one EVGA always delivered the exact same products to reviewers as well as customers. EVGA does not “fake” reviews or send out products with “tweaked” clockspeeds to reviewers. With EVGA Superclocked, FTW and Classified graphics cards, what you see is what you get.

http://www.evga.com/articles/01022/evga-wysiwyg/

 

[orangpelupa]

http://www.evga.com/articles/01022/evga-wysiwyg/

More like

"shit, why we didn't think of that! "(referring to Asus and msi shenanigans).

" boss, let's turn around our thinking. This could be our chance! "

" what do you mean? "

Thus come thst wysiwyg marketing movements.

 

[Malo]

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?"

 

[Aerows]

(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.