MSI's GeForce GTX 480 to Offer Over Voltage Too
MSI advertises a more conservative 15 percent performance boost with more juice.
We saw in a previous article that Asus's GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 product will pack a special (supported?) feature that will allow the user to tweak the voltage to "shift into overdrive" to make things "50% faster."
Most of you figured with much sense that the "50%" figure sounded a little curious –a fact that we won't be able to investigate until after the official launch this Friday evening. But now MSI's has shown its card(s) and we can see that its offering has a similar "Over Voltage Function" that boasts a more reasonable 15% performance boost.
Perhaps this is early indication of the extra overclocking headroom built into the first batch of Fermi cards.
Image source: MSI.
Oh wait my mistake, this is only happening on THG.
seems more like a made up selling point than an actual over clock...especially with not a lot of people being familiar with fermi technology and its capabilities.
"Fun Fact of the Week: GF100 graphics cards will provide hardware support for GPU overvoltaging for extreme overclocking!"
Kinda leads me to think that the overvoltaging is supported.
they also said alot of other things some of which werent true
LOL, you win.
i'm guessing only the cherry picked one's get the over voltage feature?
If this is the case, it's not good news for gamers at all. We have standards for very good reasons, and having GPUs released that are dependant on overclocking, especially over-volting isn't a good trend.
Looks like my dreams are gonna come true!