Nvidia has done it. No overclocking for gaming notebooks anymore since Nvidia’s driver ( GeForce R347) is now preventing users from overclocking their GTX 900M’s.
When asked by enraged consumers why Nvidia disabled the option to overclock their own notebooks, Nvidia simply stated that it wasn’t meant to be overclocked, and the previous drivers were enabling it by accident.
This was the explanation from the customer care from Nvidia and a clear outrage from one user:
What Good Will Disabling The GTX 900M Do?
Disabled overclocking means warranties will still be intact for us consumers and probably a long lasting product. Also, since the GTX 900M is already running at a reasonable speed, there’s probably no need to overclock it. Therefore this is a good thing but also bad when we are not allowed to have the choice of overclocking it.
There are things that we may need to take into consideration as to why Nvidia has made this decision to disable the overclocking:
- As mentioned by costumer care from Nvidia, the product’s thermal, electrical design may not withstand overclocking effects. We may know everything about overclocking and its voltages but we can’t say for sure what the overall design of our GTX 900M.
- Overclocking is a gamble. No matter how sure you are at overclocking, there’s always that slight chance of failing.
- Overclocking an already acceptable GPU or processor speed may not show a significant change.
Thoughts..
Disabling the overclockong option on a software level wont last long, it wont take long for someone to unlock it again however, I cant help but feel its a really bad move on Nvidia’s part. As an overclocking enthusiast, I find it a bit unreasonable for a paying costumer to be restricted to do what they want with their GTX 900M. Unless a breach of contract or a user agreement violation is triggered (in this case I think it does not), then users should have the right to overclock what they have paid for.
We may not know the reason why, and probably never will but with the way how technology is advancing, it probably won’t matter in the near future when there will be new mobile GPUs released.
