Voltage control becomes necessary beyond a certain point, and since NVIDIA is requiring custom PCBs and disallowing software voltage control EVGA had to get creative.
Meanwhile the second class of cards impacted is of course overclocking-focused cards like the GTX 680 Classified. Partners that wish to ship heavily overclocked cards will now need to bin to stay within NVIDIA’s power requirements. The first are heavily factory overclocked cards using the reference PCB, which goosed the GPU voltage to hit their high factory overclocks. Software overvoltage control is forbidden. NVIDIA won’t allow partners to ship higher-power cards using the reference board. a base power target 170W) must use a custom board with suitable power circuitry. Partners wishing to have a card with a TDP over 195W (i.e. Specifically, there are two things going on: As we briefly mentioned before, NVIDIA is shying away from hardcore overclocking with the GeForce 600 series. With the GeForce 600 series things have become a bit harder for NVIDIA’s partners. NVIDIA doesn’t publish what those requirements are so we can only speculate from the outside about what’s going on, but clearly NVIDIA has been unhappy with some partners’ custom designs in the past. This includes cooling, build quality, and noise limits (the reason the GTX 680C is limited to 55% fan speed). NVIDIA’s interest in this matter is that video card manufacturing is a true partnership – their name and brand is at stake as much as the partners – so they want to be sure that GeForce cards meet their standards.
So much of the GTX 680 Classified is geared around overvolting, so we wanted to break this out into its own section.įor some time now NVIIDA has kept a tight leash on their partners' designs, with partners required to clear their designs with NVIDIA before they can sell them.
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