MSI Responds to GTX 660 Ti, 670 Power Edition Overvolting
MSI issues a new statement reaffirming its confidence in its video cards.
Last week, we brought news from our Tom's Hardware Germany team's discovery that MSI was overvolting the GPUs on the GTX 660 Ti and GTX 670 Ti Power Edition boards (Google Translate) to achieve a higher and longer lasting GPU boost state by basically circumventing the PWM controller.
MSI commented on our report with the following statement:
We are currently not aware of any other vendor providing this same level of performance and we’ve worked with NVIDIA to ensure that new production models will limit this free overclock boost you currently get. Our new production models with normal GPU Boost function will be on sale next month.
Read our English news report of that here.
Following up, MSI issued a further statement on its website with the following three points:
1. MSI respects the result which is tested by Tom's Hardware, but we have much confidence and believe our products would not cause any customer RMA concerns.
2. Since MSI designs these custom products with overclocking in mind, we "supercharge" these cards because we're anticipating enthusiast to overclock. Because of this design decision and the higher component quality, we're able to provide more power to the board resulting in higher and longer GPU Boost operation without reducing the lifetime of the graphics card or warranty term.
3. MSI's all graphics cards including GTX 670 and GTX 660 Ti passed strict test and stand behind our products with a 3 year warranty.

So what your saying is that the next generation beats the current generation. OMGWTF mind blown!!! You sir deserve a medal for comparing next gen to current gen.
How is this relevant to anything?
8870 > 670
I buy MSI knowing there is a chance the hardware could go bad. MSI kinda has a history of doing this to cards.
How is this relevant to anything?
So what your saying is that the next generation beats the current generation. OMGWTF mind blown!!! You sir deserve a medal for comparing next gen to current gen.
I prefer Sapphire. Hong Kong FTW
I'm sure they make great cards, but alas I realize that electronics are bound to fail, and with that in mind, I shop based on Customer Service, whether I have to pay money to RMA (aside from shipping) etc. And in that regard Sapphire is a fail.
If you tested a high-end card that forced all the hot air out of the case via that one slot on the back, it would be louder and/or run hotter than the dual-exit competition. For somewhat lower-end cards that don't produce much heat to begin with it doesn't really matter much. Either way if you build a box carefully you can easily handle even the hottest GPUs.