Comments on: NVIDIA shady trick to 9600GT following-up #2

By: 8800GTS (G92) OCing (840/2206/2098), experimentation/thoughts - Page 2 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:50:17 +0000

[...] it was the 9600gt that could be overclocked by bumping up the PCIe bus frequency(on certain mobos). -More here- [...]

By: [TPU] 9600GT secret exposed - Page 4 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

[TPU] 9600GT secret exposed - Page 4 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:56:41 +0000

[...] in future chips. We said: We have found one of the future product also have the same method. Update at expreview, there has been no follow up at TPU that I could find. __________________ [...]

By: Slim Shady

Slim Shady — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:31:30 +0000

This just confirms TPU’s title was right on the spot:
1.”shady”- not disclosing such “innovation” to start with, and keeping mum for almost a month.
2.”trick”- when your card is overclocked without your knowledge, and the lack of utility to even tell you the accurate clock I would feel tricked. If I want to OC I will do it myself or buy OC version.
It is cheating regardless of what the (new) possibilities are. The fact is this “innovation” distorts the benchmark results published and Nvidia’s results benefit from every bit of it. Whether it was intentional or not, or whether it changes the results a lot or not, it doesn’t matter. The fact is they got caught.