Should there be "Black Edition" Graphics Cards?

[kurosagi01]

260GTX black edition:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/896M...666MHz-216-Cores-2xDL-DVI-I-HDTV-plus-FarCry2
285GTX black edition:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1GB-...z-GDDR3-GPU-690MHz-240-Cores-2x-DL-DVI-I-HDTV

 

[El_Mayo]

@kurosagi01 that smells like a market gimmick to me
nice avatar dude!

 

[Geofrancis]

i do not understand what you're talking about

like someone said before on this thread new graphics cards have digital power regulation that can be software controlled. this is for the speedstep powersaving features like cpu's have that drops the speed and voltage to save power when its idle.

well this can also work in reverse you can up the voltage to increase the clockspeed of the graphics card like you do with your cpu. but most cards only let you increase it very slightly over stock if even that without some kind of physical mod to the card.

what would also be good is the ability to control the ram voltage to increase overclocks and also the timings of the ram to get better overclocks.

a graphics card is just basicly a processor ram and motherboard all on the same pcb if we had as many options as we do on a motherboard like all the overclocking options you would be seeing some crazy overclocks with graphics cards.