Nvidia Disables Overclocking for Series 900 Mobile GPUs

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/12/2015 06:53 PM | source: | 199 comment(s)

Nvidia once again managed to irritate a vast amount of end-users, this time the latest driver update disables overclocking for the mobile Series 900. Until recently these parts could be over or under clocked.

Now granted, I would not overclock or tweak a mobile GPU part myself either, the thermals are way too important inside a laptop for that. But we also know that some people like to do so and do acknowledge that many people have been OCing their mGPU for a long time (downclocking as well).

In their forums Nvidia explained that overclocking on the GTX 900M series was enabled by accident, and has since been disabled with the recent driver updates. To get you an idea of the revision numbers, starting GeForce R347 drivers (version 347.29) the functionality has been disabled on the GeForce GTX 900M series mobile GPUs.

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maxio
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#5012518 Posted on: 02/12/2015 09:59 AM

nGreedia disabled overclocking because people will need sooner to upgrade or buy a new notebook, pure marketing move.
First GTX 970 BS, now this?

Nice, nGreedia you keep going that way and you'll see what happen.
Honestly, nGreedia is starting to pissing me off.
Remember, the stick has two ends.

Shady757
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#5012545 Posted on: 02/12/2015 11:32 AM

Starting to feel like NVIDIA is trying to do just about anything they can to get more controversy started, pretty laughable.

But in all seriousness, they should just have some type of warning/popup that you have to agree to, like with voltage.

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#5012550 Posted on: 02/12/2015 11:44 AM

This must be the user choice,to overclock or not, not nVidia.

Scerate
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#5012551 Posted on: 02/12/2015 11:47 AM

yeah just read that too, and i'm really angry right now at nVidia, i mean wtf they supported it like decades? Locked voltage and +135Mhz limit was perfectly reasonable for me. Just upgraded my 780M to a 980M in my P150SM which ran @ 1250/3500, stayed super cool and i was finally able to play everything like i want to and than this. I mean srsly.

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#5012554 Posted on: 02/12/2015 11:48 AM

Laptops have enough problems let alone heat to handle overclocking.

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