OCZ will as we earlier reported venture on to the graphics card market after five years absence. The last time it had any graphics cards in its assortment was in 2001 when it launched overclocked cards based on NVIDIA’s GeForce 3 series. The first news about OCZ’s return has brought more attention to the fact that NVIDIA disallows its partners to launch factory overclocked GeForce 8800 cards. It will hardly make an exception now, but the well known memory manufacturer is still going to focus on overclocking when it entries the market. It will simply test all graphics cards to see what kind of frequencies you will be able to expect.
In other words, consumer will be more or less guaranteed that the cards will be able to reach a certain frequency, then it’s up to the user to perform the real overclocking.
“We have worked on this first [pre-overclocked] G80 card, which we are not allowed by Nvidia to pre-overclock; so we are just ‘speed screening’ them and not tweaking them ourselves, but leaving that for end-users,”
We’re eager to see what level OCZ will put the overclocking at, while at the same time other manufacturers’ are expected to follow OCZ’s example.
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