I will involved on side of gamers. Every graphic card is produced for gamers mostly.
This type of cards, Republic of G A A A M E E E R S not LN2 Overclockers. And what extreme overclockers before several years decide to do with graphic cards is minority. Believe me PC industry will rather choose gamers than extreme overclockers if need to choose. Because that stories This card is not produce for gamers this is for us 88 on the world or 136 people are not important. Extreme overclockers are only persons who need to provide to more thousands gamers buy some cards and in same time to play and satisfied self. Gamers have right on fabric overclocked cards same as overclockers. Why they need to play every day with Afterburner when they don't need to install that tool at all, only to change fan speed in NVIDIA Inspector or CCC.
What extreme overclockers make with cards, that's minority and mostly hardware are destroyed on that way. Purpose of that is to gamers buy fabric overclocked cards 100-150e more expensive than reference. Or if company stay only on them for such cards, they could lock fabric fast.
Imagine someone to produce series for overclockers, cost of that card would be 50% more expensive.
Example 114 cards. And 28 was not selled because in that moment some of them didn't had money for LN2 and no sponsors. Story is extremely stupid, This card is for overclockers, not for gamers.
GRAPHIC CARDS ARE PRODUCED FOR GAMES IN 70% OF SITUATION AND SOME OF THEM HAVE EVERYTHING NECESSARY TO BE USED ON LN2. You know 867 and 1072MHz is big distance to someone ignore that and buy reference card completely sure to OC on same clock with nice temps.
And situation is again not fair for Radeon users, MSI talk how they work lot with AMD to provide best Hynix memory for MSI Lightening and ASUS put on ROG Elpida even if they know about lower hash rate in mining. I would gave up from this Radeon 1001% only because that. No such good chip to give me reason to ignore that. And in same time they put nice Hynix on ROG GTX780Ti Matrix. Both model should came with SK Hynix. DO YOU KNOW WHY??? BECAUSE OVERCLOCKING FOR MANUFACTURER IS SIDE MISSION. They will make compromise without explanation and make stupid moves without good reason.
But I will be fair, I like this card. Not as Classified but this is beauty compare with DC2 no matter on exactly model of DC2, all of them are bad.