Following Asus, MSI company has made an official statement on the score cards with the "modified" BIOS, which it distributes for reviews. Recall that recently, one of the French commentators said that Asus and MSI provide for reviews video cards with frequencies too high, while the same adapters on retail have more modest preset frequencies.
MSI statement said that the samples for surveys are identical adapters, sold retail, in terms of hardware and performance. MSI emphasizes that both those cards have the same operating profiles that can be configured through the MSI Gaming App, and information on these profiles available to the public. Total available three profiles. The cards entering the retail, the default mode is set to "Gaming", which provides the best balance of performance per watt. At the same time, a game performance in this mode is similar to the performance mode "OC".
MSI says that some browsers do not use the program for testing video cards like the MSI Gaming App. Therefore, to demonstrate the same performance, which is available to the user via MSI Gaming App, MSI graphics cards GeForce GTX 1080 samples Gaming X 1070 and GeForce GTX Gaming X are available for review with preset profiles "OC". MSI also noted that the cooling system Twin Frozr VI, used in graphics cards Gaming X is able to provide stable operation by using any of the profiles.
In general, in the case of MSI graphics cards all is exactly as with the Asus accelerators.