MSI And ASUS Manipulating Graphics Card Review Samples

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Ocre, but the reviewers didn't know until now that their cards were running faster out of the box than the retail cards OUT-OF-THE-BOX.  If MSI shipped review samples with special software/BIOS setting to make these cards run at higher-than-stock speed, without acknowledging the reviewer, then that is sneaky.  The fact that none of us knew about it until TPU finally realized this has been happening since GTX 780 Ti (2 years ago) with MSI, and more recently with Asus makes it worthy of attention now, so that companies may not continue this without our awareness.  

Am I wrong here or not?  If I am wrong, then I'd appreciate a heads-up.

Sadly, TPU is stirring cap up for attention and page hits. Or they half ass pay attentio...or theh simply are idoits.

How the hell could they be so clueless when other sites clearly knew all about the different modes and clearly they state up front that out of the box speed while defining all the modes.

http://m.hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics...-gaming-x/

As standard and out of the box, the Gaming X runs at 1,683MHz and 1,823MHz for base and boost, respectively. This can be changed to 1,708/1,847MHz in OC mode along with a 108MHz bump to the 10,000MHz GDDR5X memory, while dropping it down to Silent ensures the card runs at 1,607/1,733MHz, or at reference speeds

Now I am really pissed