Yesterday's NVIDIA company banned at least two of its partners to provide users with the means to increase the voltage on the GeForce GTX 680 GPU. These steps are aimed at reducing NVIDIA warranty percent return and increase profitability.
NVIDIA representatives commented the situation in an interview . As explained by colleagues, the program Green Light, involves mandatory certification by any NVIDIA graphics cards issued by partner. Noise, cooling device, heat level, voltage limit. If your graphics card does not meet some NVIDIA requirements , the product loses the guarantee to the graphics processor, and partner - support with BIOS update.
According to the company, partners has the opportunity to go beyond the recommended voltage, but in this case they lose the warranty on the GPU. In other words, the video card manufacturers in this case take all the risks for themselves, giving end-users a guarantee at own expense. If you believe NVIDIA explanations , EVGA and MSI just did not want to take risks, and have preferred to keep the manufacturer's warranty on the graphics processor, giving up the ability to change the voltage.
Since these cards were originally focused on overclock, and therefore are an obvious risk, NVIDIA partners had no much choice but to comply with the limits graphics processors supplier.