Asus and MSI face accusations of doping review graphics cards
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The folks at TechPowerUp published an exposi(C) of sorts this morning with the provocative headline "MSI and Asus send VGA Review Samples with Higher Clocks than Retail Cards." I nearly spit out my figurative coffee when I saw that lead-in. If that story was true, it would be quite the scoop. As with so much in life, it turns out that the situation on the ground isn't quite so simple.
TechPowerUp's actual beef with Asus and MSI isn't that the companies shipped it GTX 1080s with higher clocks that one could get with a retail card, as that fiery headline might lead one to believe. Instead, what's going on is that these board partners are shipping the site cards with an aggressive clock profile ...