NVIDIA's shady trick to boost the GeForce 9600GT

2008-02-29 10:29:22

#1

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6692|Finland

LOL?
from 650mhz to 725mhz. And note that the NVIDIA's linkboost overclocks the card even more when using nforce chipset. in this case, 812.5mhz.

'Also it will have an extra performance advantage when reviewers compare the non-overclocked GeForce 9600 GT against any other card which is commonly done in most reviews. Unfortunately such a massive overclock can often cause instability of the graphics card, maybe so much that the system won't POST at all.'

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVID … _GT/1.html

Interesting... when using nforce based test systems, the geforce cards get big advantage over ATi counterparts because of this kind of overclocking...

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2008-02-29 10:40:30

#2

DUnlimited: got any popo lolo intersting?; +1,160|6741|cuntshitlake

Now that sounds weird Oo

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2008-02-29 14:53:39

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[TUF]Whiskey_Oktober: mmmm...Toasty!; +91|7000|Oregon

sounds like smart marketing for nvidia to me. if you want this to work amazingly well, get our board. but it still works on other platforms.

2008-02-29 15:10:41

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GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6692|Finland

[TUF]Whiskey_Oktober wrote:
sounds like smart marketing for nvidia to me. if you want this to work amazingly well, get our board. but it still works on other platforms.

but when ppl use that platform for testing against competitors products, it is the same as cheating...

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2008-02-29 15:11:47

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Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|6816|Long Island, New York

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
[TUF]Whiskey_Oktober wrote:
sounds like smart marketing for nvidia to me. if you want this to work amazingly well, get our board. but it still works on other platforms.
but when ppl use that platform for testing against competitors products, it is the same as cheating...

So what? Welcome to the business world.

2008-02-29 15:13:18

#6

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6692|Finland

Poseidon wrote:
GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
[TUF]Whiskey_Oktober wrote:
sounds like smart marketing for nvidia to me. if you want this to work amazingly well, get our board. but it still works on other platforms.
but when ppl use that platform for testing against competitors products, it is the same as cheating...
So what? Welcome to the business world.

'minor' ~175mhz oc without telling the testers/reviewers.... and when asked about it they just ignore them.
that's the point techpowerup is making.

Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2008-02-29 15:14:07)