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> Are they just worried people will buy cheaper cards and overclock them?

Then they wouldn't hand out the API to people writing OC tools. It's probably just standard corporate paranoia.

Isn't that what already happens? I've done it a few times in my life.

I was looking at the GTX 980 but settled on a GTX 970. It overclocks pretty well and I put the money I saved into a new SSD :)

They are probably worried about people physically damaging their hardware.