Thursday, February 12th 2015
NVIDIA Disables GeForce GTX 900M Mobile GPU Overclocking with Driver Update
With GeForce R347 drivers (version 347.29), NVIDIA disabled overclocking on its GeForce GTX 900M series mobile GPUs. Buyers of new notebooks, and using older drivers, with the chips fell under the impression that like their desktop counterparts, the GTX 900M series support overclocking, until they updated their drivers to 347.29, to find that their overclocks were wiped back to reference clocks, and overclocking using third-party tools was disabled.
When angry users took to the official GeForce forums to report the bug, NVIDIA explained that overclocking on the GTX 900M series was enabled by accident, and has since been disabled with the recent driver updates. This explanation was met by angry reactions by users who argued that they should be allowed to use the hardware as they want, even if it voids their warranties. Historically, overclocking was allowed on NVIDIA GPUs.
Source:
NVIDIA GeForce Forums
When angry users took to the official GeForce forums to report the bug, NVIDIA explained that overclocking on the GTX 900M series was enabled by accident, and has since been disabled with the recent driver updates. This explanation was met by angry reactions by users who argued that they should be allowed to use the hardware as they want, even if it voids their warranties. Historically, overclocking was allowed on NVIDIA GPUs.
160 Comments on NVIDIA Disables GeForce GTX 900M Mobile GPU Overclocking with Driver Update
When I overclock the core clock to 325 and memory to 225 the temps only go up as far as 70-72c on max load.
It's perfectly safe! Does this truly mean that I will never be able to overclock again???? My laptop can handle this no problem so this is rather annoying :/
I will roll back for sure! but does this mean if I ever update my drivers, I won't be able to overclock again or is this gonna pass eventually?!
But why do companies allow warranty to cover overclocking their laptops? I mean.. everyone knows that it's a risk! if you fry your lappy then that's your own damn fault and not the company right?!
I bought this laptop so I can overclock safely and now I can't update the drivers or there won't be overclocking! Fierce annoying
ngreedia is really pushing it.. I hope they get rage from customers and manufactures.
In the spirit of sarcasm, here is another great example of why "notebooks should never be overclocked" LOL. In these runs my 980M cards temps peaked at 70°C.
Fire Strike Extreme run... www.3dmark.com/3dm/5921625
And, a "regular" Fire Strike run...
C'mon NVIDIA... knock it off with the God act and give us back our property ownership rights. You do not own my computers, and I don't appreciate your false pretenses. You do NOT have a right to decide what is best for me or my laptop.