Nvidia re-blocked Overclocking silently in the latest drivers for the 900M series graphics card

[GoodBytes]

Nvidia has silently re-blocked overclocking of the mobile GeForce 900M series graphics card.

Nvidia previously has done it, claiming you were not supposed to overclocked the GPU in the first place, and it was a bug initially that allowed too. With high pressure, the company took a step back and re-enabled it. But now with the latest drivers, it's blocked again.

 

NVIDIA's driver team is at it again. The company drew outrage from the PC enthusiast community, for developing drivers that prevent GPU overclocking on its GeForce GTX 900M series notebook GPUs, in February 2015, with the introduction of its GeForce 347.29 WHQL drivers, blaming it on a "bug" that allowed overclocking on previous drivers. When called-out and under pressure from the community, it re-enabled overclocking on these chips, with the following GeForce 347.88 drivers, with an equally lame quasi-apology. Hoping that nobody would notice, the company seems to have reinstated the overclocking block, or "clock-block" as the community is calling it; with its R350 and R352 drivers, such as the GeForce 352.86.

Here are the excuses that Nvidia is saying, which are contradictory.

Source: http://www.techpowerup.com/212769/nvidia-back-to-dirty-tricks-with-gtx-900m-series-overclocking.html

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

Oh god, hate inbound.

 

 

But I mean, this is good but at the same time no, because people who know what they do should like be allowed to. 

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

inb4 "Nvidia lied" comments.

suddenly if laptop that had nvidia mobile graphics broke, people would have blamed nvidia for the same thing they were trying to prevent from happening, if you are seriously ditching nvidia because they disabled a overclocking feature on a LAPTOP for all the reasons, then you are not doing it right. 

[killtothis]

NVIDIA LIED

 

Personally, from a business point of view I can see why probably causes a lot of user error initiated warranty claims. From an enthusiast point of view, it sucks. If you buy your hardware it should be up to you what you do with it. 

[Majestic]

I'd like to know how the OEM's are forcing them to do this or not. 

[Guest]

Why would you OC a laptop? They run hot as hell anyway.

[Humbug]

Are people pissed about it just as a matter of principle?

Or do you guys seriously overclock laptops?

[FloRolf]

i mean, if you OC your mobile gpu it's pretty much set to fail but who wants to should be able to. Nvidia are such dickheads over the last couple... years actually...

Next step, AMD, whooo.

[christianled59]

Oh god. Wtf is wrong with you nvidia? At least stick with your decisions. Don't backpedal so much.

[-TesseracT-]

Why would you OC a laptop? They run hot as hell anyway.

my laptops gpu runs at like 90 C under load lol, 730M

[Ostwind]

Why would you OC a laptop? They run hot as hell anyway.

not all of them do, especially models with 900m GPU's.

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Are people pissed about as a matter of principle?

Or do you guys seriously overclock laptops?

oh trust me, people who are mad at this are the people not necessarily the people own a laptop or own anything nvidia, people on the internet get mad at things they don't even know was the problem in the first place.

[Victorious Secret]

I'll say the same thing I said before - laptops (all those except chunky bastards with MXM slots) have very tight tolerances for heat and thermal throttling. OC'ing a gPU in such constrained environments is asking for trouble. 

 

You break it, you send it back to the OEM, they go and complain to Nvidia that their chips failed. It a lose lose for everyone. 

 

I overclocked my mobile chip before. I also stopped. If I OC a GPU on my desktop and I break it, no big deal. I get it replaced and my system isn't ruined. 

 

I break a soldered on chip that needs basically a brand new motherboard? That truly leaves me without my hardware? Yea, some people might think its worth a couple of FPS but I don't, so I don't get upset when I can't do it. All the power to Nvidia (and AMD) for not allowing these, they have very good reasons. 

[Manny Calavera]

Lmao, nvidia why?

I can overclock my more than 10 year old intel celeron M laptop iGPU ^^

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Are people pissed about it just as a matter of principle?

Or do you guys seriously overclock laptops?

 

I've done it   Free performance. But that was a 6970m.

 

OT: Man not again.... 

[lani100]

Why would you OC a laptop? They run hot as hell anyway.

The newer Nvidia chips run surprisingly cool I clocked my 750m to almost 760m performance without hitting over 80c during stress which is quite good for a laptop.

[givingtnt]

eh. I don't really care. laptops are not worth overclocking. they have very poor heat distribution (if you don't have some kind of bulky j751)   and tbh. why would I try to oc my 970m on my gs70

[Trik'Stari]

Who the hell overclocks a laptop? Why does anyone care?

 

At this point, Nvidia is just trolling people for the fun of it.

[givingtnt]

inb4 "Nvidia lied" comments.

suddenly if laptop that had nvidia mobile graphics broke, people would have blamed nvidia for the same thing they were trying to prevent from happening, if you are seriously ditching nvidia because they disabled a overclocking feature on a LAPTOP for all the reasons, then you are not doing it right. 

 

 

NVIDIA LIED

 

Personally, from a business point of view I can see why probably causes a lot of user error initiated warranty claims. From an enthusiast point of view, it sucks. If you buy your hardware it should be up to you what you do with it. 

litteraly one after the other

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

litteraly one after the other

i believe he was being sarcastic. 

[FakezZ]

First post: "Enabling users to overclock was just an unintentional bug".

Second post: "We will AGAIN be ENABLING overclocking".

Really NVIDIA? If you're gonna lie, at least have the decency to do it right...

[AxelRantila]

Still trying to understand why someone would overclock a mobile GPU. Even if it has enough thermal limits, overclocking also means more power consumption, which does matter with battery devices

[AlwaysFSX]

Free performance.

Free performance my ass, you might get 2-3% out of it. Not worth the extra heat.

[bcredeur97]

once again, people who want to overclock a notebook that badly should have to program and flash a vBIOS to do it... Its not something the average person should do. 

[Trik'Stari]

Still trying to understand why someone would overclock a mobile GPU. Even if it has enough thermal limits, overclocking also means more power consumption, which does matter with battery devices

Not to mention that overclocking a full size desktop GPU doesn't provide that much of a boost (at least it doesn't on my 970 strix at 1400 with stock being 1253) so what difference will it actually make? 3 fps for how much more battery drain and heat output?

 

Just....no.