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thorok

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  1. Is it within the right of your auto manufacturer of choice to tell you how fast you can drive your car, or block you from exceeding the speed limit? Hell no! Of course not. This is NVIDIA taking liberty where it's not theirs to take. They have absolutely no right to control what end users do, and if they were smart they would leave this anti-customer treachery up to idiotic OEMs that hate their customers. Other than stupid gamer-children that don't know any better, and those that don't care, this demonstration of poor judgment could turn out be a fatal error for their brand if they leave it this way. No self-respecting enthusiast is going to buy a pile of crap NVIDIA GPU that can't be overclocked unless there is a mod to circumvent it. The ability exists for flash protection cancer to be implemented à la Alienware 2012.

    Conspiracy aside, they may have implemented that vBIOS before making the announcement about blocking, then changing their mind after the public outcry against it. They can discontinue using a cancer-infected vBIOS just as quickly and easily as they started using one. I'd recommend waiting and watching as @Prema has suggested. This could be a fluke/false alarm.

    Sadly no false alarm Units with the locked vbios already shipped a while ago... all of the new Alienware 2015r2 models with the 970m in them are locked from overclocking regardless of the driver used and I guarantee this Bios is the reason why. I have a longer series of posts on the 17r2 benchmark thread at NBR explaining all the testing I did to confirm this. Sevel other users have confirmed my results at this point and the only possible explanation is a bios level lock.

    Tried to get The AW reps in over there to give me a response on my finding but they just gave me the run aroud/straight up lied. Was told by AWporras that the 970m in the 17r2 could be Overclocked but only when the laptop was attached to the graphics AMp (no just think about that for a minute who would buy a 300$ graphics amp with no card in it to allow thie mobile gpu to OC.) notihing but a web of lies from Nvidia and dell alike.

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