Thursday, May 21st 2015
NVIDIA Back to Dirty Tricks with GTX 900M Series Overclocking
NVIDIA's driver team is at it again. The company drew outrage from the PC enthusiast community, for developing drivers that prevent GPU overclocking on its GeForce GTX 900M series notebook GPUs, in February 2015, with the introduction of its GeForce 347.29 WHQL drivers, blaming it on a "bug" that allowed overclocking on previous drivers. When called-out and under pressure from the community, it re-enabled overclocking on these chips, with the following GeForce 347.88 drivers, with an equally lame quasi-apology.
Hoping that nobody would notice, the company seems to have reinstated the overclocking block, or "clock-block" as the community is calling it; with its R350 and R352 drivers, such as the GeForce 352.86. Enthusiasts in notebook-centric communities such as NotebookReview, discovered that the latest GeForce drivers prevent overclocking if it reads a "lock-bit" in the video BIOS. Below are the two excuses the company exhausted by means of mutual-contradiction.
Hoping that nobody would notice, the company seems to have reinstated the overclocking block, or "clock-block" as the community is calling it; with its R350 and R352 drivers, such as the GeForce 352.86. Enthusiasts in notebook-centric communities such as NotebookReview, discovered that the latest GeForce drivers prevent overclocking if it reads a "lock-bit" in the video BIOS. Below are the two excuses the company exhausted by means of mutual-contradiction.
50 Comments on NVIDIA Back to Dirty Tricks with GTX 900M Series Overclocking
Interestingly I noticed 344.75 were released 183 days ago.
Besides I personally think gaming laptops are stupid and often massively overpriced, but if they want to overclock them then they should be allowed to do so.
Beyond that this really doesn't affect me at all so. /shrug
/sarcasm
Meh, I think the same thing I thought before. Loosen restrictions on the top end GPU's and be tighter about the lower ones. I mean most if not all laptops with a GTX 970m+ have some decent enough cooling to handle it (I can only think of 1 or 2 exceptions).
Perhaps they are having some sort of issue with this series that they cannot resolve at the manufacturing level and are being cautious via the driver.
Hopefully we get more than an apology this time 'round and end up with an excuse.
But when I go fishing, I need to use bait...
Let me reiterate my point from the other thread:
AMD and nVidia are screwing us over in the support department, the market needs a third player.
forums.geforce.com/default/topic/833016/geforce-700-600-series/gtx-780-possible-fail-as-performance-in-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-/1/
ahahahahaha,
so much fail in one comment.
Until next time fellows.... roflmao