In terms of mass production the variety of component suppliers can not only play in the favor of the manufacturer, but also turn around trouble for customers. An example is the story of the memory overclocking on graphics cards GeForce GTX 1070, Markets chips GDDR5 Micron production. The first batches of cards used Samsung memory chips, but the owners of more recent card with chips Micron discovered abnormal behavior when they try to overclock the memory .
Once the user has increased the frequency of memory, an image, or appeared typical chess artifacts or the screen turns black. If before this memory voltage was fixed at a certain value by a utility such as MSI Afterburner, such problems did not arise. Members suggested that the firmware or the video card driver does not have time to raise the voltage automatically, which causes problems when overclocking graphics cards equipped with Micron memory production. Options with Samsung memory such problems have been deprived.
NVIDIA representatives stated that the decision in the form of a BIOS update for the data cards have already been created, and it will be distributed forces manufacturers of video cards that work with NVIDIA.