This means the 680 classy's that are currently out that have EVbot are going to be worth... A lot of cash...

Baltothewolf

This means the 680 classy's that are currently out that have EVbot are going to be worth... A lot of cash...

Never thought of that,

SlashPT

Yeah... they will be worth alot more money the "old" Classies...

Anyway I believe EVGA should have made an advertisement about this.. some guys like the OP got "tricked"...

They would be allowed to swap out or a refund I would have thought

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam i feel like i dodged a bullet. just bought mine recently from the egg and it has the evbot connector XD, but had i known nvidia was going to be such a douche about it i would have, like ive always done, bought an ati card...... i did buy a gtx275 and loved it, but ati has never steered me wrong. my first card was a 9800pro (that i promptly, and successfully flashed to 9800xt, one of those faulty cards that got a different downclocked bios).
 
im extremely happy with the performance im getting now but jeez nvidia could you be any more of a downer. i will not fund that sort of rubbish, sorry evga, i know that will effect you :( i still think your great :P. perhaps there is someway to impliment soldering points to attach an evbot adapter by the customer, since most that buy this thing know how to do that anyway. the circuitry is there, perhaps that would satisfy nvidias regs?
 
if not wow nvidia... your dumb. the only reason half the people that buy nvidia cards buy them, is for the nice scaling the cards have when overclocked.... and im not sure how me overclocking my card effects nvidia? what the fawk do they care? is it just me or is it not only our government turning to communism/marksism, but now individual companies are. forgetting the customer and worrying about other nonsense is not capatalysm. its socialism. thanks nvidia, way to set the example....(sarcasm). do what ever you can evga to bypass it ill try and think of other ideas to get around it (other than bios modding)
 
EDIT: perhaps if a 3rd party made an adapter to solder onto the pcb, evga could keep it's end of the bargain by selling classies without the adapter (maybe 10-20 bucks cheaper so we can pay for the adapter), and someone else can make it possible for us to attach evga's evbot. and i say 3rd party because if evga were to make the adapter, technically evga would be FULLY enabling the use of voltage control via an external device. it should be just as simple as soldering the pins to the correct area's with the correct layout. perhaps evga, if you were to sell these "adapters" to 3rd parties and allow them to "rebrand" them (or give them pantent rights to make it) they could sell them back to us, the customer :D. just some ideas. and on a different note, its more like a socket rather than an adapter, but you get the idea. :P ahem, ill see what i can do to make this socket myself, and if anyone wants one, pm me. give me some time to produce, and have someone test, one of these things. it should work, just wish i had a classy without the socket to experiment with :P

As a shareholder with Nvidia and long time user, I find this to be a blatient slap to my face. If they want to pull crap like this, I will have no problem investing my money elsewhere.  

Wow, i honestly would return both cards. Go get yourself 2 680's FTW 4GB cards and use the extra cash for something else. You pretty much just threw away your money. It doesn't say anything anywhere that the cards no longer can be used with evbot, It should say it in bold letters somewhere on the product page. Im surprised there's absolutely nothing about it. Seems they should inform people about that.  Its really the only reason people buy them to begin with besides just to say you have a classified card. I would send them straight back if it was me. Screw the restocking fee, they can eat that you payed big money for the classifieds features which you didnt get.

What I find most annoying is, these 6xx cards would have been capable of so much more if there wasn't this voltage limit... I max out at 55c at 1.175v and I know I could get 1300 core if it would let me up the voltage to 2.12...

EVGA_JacobF

Unfortunately we are not permitted to include this feature any longer.

Well, That's bad for Nvidia not to include it anymore, but PrecisionX should do the same good job, shouldn't it.??

This is honestly some sad sad news....
Why would they care what their vendors do to their cards?
 
Its a sad sad day.... I just wonder if this has to do with anything that Intel is doing?

now even 670 FTW can beat 680 Classified  nice.....

I see that EVGA photoshopped there picture of the 680 classified and blacked out the evbot plug.

If anyone bought a card before we updated the site today that did not come with an EVBot connector please contact me directly.

I see more of people sending not great clocking  6xx cards back and its really just as bad as sending back cards hurt from your hands.
Now when you look back to nv's history on software voltage its fairlly new....6xxx 7xxx 8xxx 9xxx did not have any(besides98gx2) 200 yes at first with 280 260 but then gone with 265 275 285.
 fermi had a run with 4xx 5xx with minimal(.127)voltage control.
 now no mas voltage but never know whats going to happen later,more of nothing or a tad little of something.
 

I'm sometimes looking at people who have the 6x0 series that complain about the OC's and ask myself where would you guys be satisfied? 1350, 1400, 1430, 1800Mhz on the Gpu?
 
While i do find limits bothersome i do get why they are there in the first place. To not screw up your card. If you don't care that you may screw up your card, then just do a hard v-mod on it, play with it until it pops and then get another one. It's that simple.
 
Now looking on the other side of the fence (Radeon) where people say they'll go, aren't there are voltage limits as well?
 
 

AlexisRO

I'm sometimes looking at people who have the 6x0 series that complain about the OC's and ask myself where would you guys be satisfied? 1350, 1400, 1430, 1800Mhz on the Gpu?

While i do find limits bothersome i do get why they are there in the first place. To not screw up your card. If you don't care that you may screw up your card, then just do a hard v-mod on it, play with it until it pops and then get another one. It's that simple.

Now looking on the other side of the fence (Radeon) where people say they'll go, aren't there are voltage limits as well?

 
I'm perfectly happy with my 1202 core. But I just know I could go 1300 if I could get the voltage to 2.12. Right now I hover around 55c under full load of BF3 after 4+ hour runs. I know I could push it to 2.12 and not worry about temps as 65c or lower is acceptable for me.