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NVidia Puts the Kibosh On Overclocking of GTX 900M Series
An anonymous reader writes Nvidia surprised members of the overclocking community this week when it pulled OC support from drivers for its 900M series mobile graphics cards. Many users (particularly those who bought laptops with higher-end cards like the 980m) were overclocking – until the latest driver update. Now, Nvidia is telling customers not to expect OC capabilities to return. “Unfortunately GeForce Notebooks were not designed to support overclocking,” wrote Nvidia’s Manuel Guzman. “Overclocking is by no means a trivial feature, and depends on thoughtful design of thermal, electrical, and other considerations. By overclocking a notebook, a user risks serious damage to the system that could result in non-functional systems, reduced notebook life, or many other effects.”
No I don't think he really believes what he is saying himself. I am almost certain he will bitch and whine about how Nvidia are now taking something away that he paid good money for. He is a nice enough person about most things but some areas he is just a selfish prick and doesn't believe screwing large companies out of money is hurting anyone so he always finds a reason to justify it.
That seems fair. Screwing companies out of money should be the customers default position. After all, the companies' default position is screwing money out of its customers. That said, if a company has my good will, I'm not nearly so niggardly.
Who ordered that?
It does apply to desktops, but there are several significant differences... like: 1. Desktop users have control of over ways to manage heat that they can't with laptops 2. If a desktop user fries their graphics card, they only have to replace their graphics card. In comparison, integrated graphics cards are permanently attached to the motherboard which typically also has a BGA processor soldered on. That is three components needing to be swapped out if the user screws up the graphics card from using a feature that has no use case. 3. User built desktops typically used for over clocking don't have warranties
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I had a dell XPS15 model with a manufacturing defect that made the computer crash when running games, the only way to solve it was to underclock the GPU. No it was not overheating, it was a manufacturing problem, there are several accounts of this problem on the net.