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| A day or two ago we reported that NVIDIA has halted EVGA to include EVBot support on their GeForce GTX 680 Classified graphics cards. Apparantly this is due to NVIDIA's Green Light program, which requires board partners to validate their designs with NVIDIA before making the final product. NVIDIA initially allowed the GeForce GTX 680 Classified because it would serve as a good marketing tool to set overclocking records, but forced EVGA to tune down the card once it had served its purpose. |
If it is what it looks like, nVidia just pulled another stunt. They got the Classified cards reviewed with higher than the moon overclocks = mega-PR. When the important reviews were done, they nerfed it by removing warranty from cards that doesn't adhere to a new set of rules meant to avoid giving other people the same performance advantage that the reviewers had, while people will still buy the Classified version based on those reviews.
Winner? nVidia. They sell more GPU's based on temporarily sanctioned overvolting capabilities.
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