The well-known author Damien Triolet reviews, working in Hardware.fr, provided for review video Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix and MSI GeForce GTX Gaming X 1080 with "improved" BIOS. Samples of these cards sent for review, have more energy than those that are sold in stores, which allows them to operate with greater frequency. So, MSI's graphics card in the "Overview" version runs directly in the mode of "OC mode", while the "store" version of the standard works to "Gaming mode" mode, the frequency of which is slightly lower.
According to our French colleague, manufacturers regularly offer authors review "encouragement" for those used during testing "optimized" BIOS settings, providing a small overclock GPU and productivity gains. But this approach does not always work. Therefore, sometimes the manufacturer provides for the review video card in which these settings are enabled by default. Besides Damien Triolet said:
"Obviously, Asus and MSI decided that a slight superiority will bring more good than be hurt by the criticism of some troublemakers (ed. Detect deception). In the end, these BIOS increased graphics performance by just 1%, and could not pay attention to it! But what will happen after the 1%? 2%? Or is 3%? "
In the end, we note that TechPowerUp resource confirms the words of Damien Triolet, because this resource for review received a video with the modified BIOS, and increased frequency . More employees TechPowerUp discovered that MSI have long resorted to such practices, and Asus started to use this method only recently.
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