{"id":95597,"date":"2016-06-17T07:38:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T05:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=95597"},"modified":"2016-06-22T15:10:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T13:10:58","slug":"msi-and-asus-have-been-sending-out-geforce-gtx-1080-review-cards-with-higher-clock-speeds-than-retail-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/95597-msi-and-asus-have-been-sending-out-geforce-gtx-1080-review-cards-with-higher-clock-speeds-than-retail-products","title":{"rendered":"MSI and Asus have been sending out GeForce GTX 1080 review cards with higher clock speeds than retail products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSI and ASUS have been sending out review units of their latest graphics cards with higher clock speeds than cards available to consumers, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/223440\/msi-and-asus-send-vga-review-samples-with-higher-clocks-than-retail-cards\" target=\"_blank\">techpowerup<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You can access the higher clock speed profile yourself on a retail card but it would require downloading a custom app.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MSI&#8217;s factory-overclocked GeForce GTX 1080 Gaming X graphics card comes with three software-defined clock-speed profiles, beginning with the &#8220;Gaming Mode,&#8221; which is what the card runs at, out of the box, the faster &#8220;OC mode,&#8221; and the slower &#8220;Silent mode,&#8221; which runs the card at reference clock speeds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turns out, that while the retail cards (the cards you find in the stores) run in Gaming mode out of the box, the review samples MSI has been sending out, run at OC mode out of the box.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:\u00a0<\/strong>MSI and Asus have both issued <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/96123-asus-and-msi-release-official-statements-on-overclocked-graphics-card-review-samples.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>statements<\/strong> <\/a>regarding this issue, stating that their\u00a0review samples and retail cards are identical in terms of performance and hardware.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Gaming News<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome gaming and tech deals\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/95353-awesome-gaming-and-tech-deals-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome gaming and tech deals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The cheapest tablets available in South Africa right now\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/94473-the-cheapest-tablets-available-in-south-africa-right-now.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The cheapest tablets available in South Africa right now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This amazing analogue keyboard will revolutionise PC gaming\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/93059-this-amazing-analogue-keyboard-will-revolutionise-pc-gaming.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This amazing analogue keyboard will revolutionise PC gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSI and ASUS are sending out review units with higher clocks than retail cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":94653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,3],"tags":[31,1517,5203,14863,14066,457],"class_list":["post-95597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-hardware","category-pc","tag-active","tag-asus","tag-msi","tag-overclock","tag-retail","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95609,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95597\/revisions\/95609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}