There are no "bad" video cards. Just overpriced ones. At $400 the HD 7950 is irrelevant; at $350 it is decent

Two posters in particular are pushing very hard for AMD over at VC&G. Can you pick them out?

It's been 3 weeks. Do you think Chris Hook is going to get back with ABT?

or is he on vacation .. a long lunch break .. not feeling well ..

any more excuses you want me to make for them for blacklisting ABT?

I didn't want you to make any excuses. I wanted you to be sure.
That's all. As much as I'd like to see AMD's viral stealth marketers collapse under their own weight and supernova, a little
caution never hurts.

I think you're safe. Chris Hook led you on, made you believe he was going to be investigating the whole situation. I think that is apparent now.

Front page time? Just inquiring, not suggesting. And I wonder how long before the consumerist contacts you.

Well, i am a little busy with a Sapphire review; at least ten other product reviews and i am leaving Monday for the GTC . . . So we can give him 4 weeks

http://store.steampowered.com/news/2099/



it collects data monthly. you can opt out of the survey and no data will ever be collect. They may be asking you trying to get your data. In a lot of ways its works just like the TV stations and TV show data is collected. If you dont know, they really cant tell what everyone is watching. Insteads they survey a large sample of ppl and calculate it. This is how they come up with the figures. Like when they say 3million ppl tuned in to a show. Its done by data samples collected. Its good enough that networks base everything on this kind of system. Shows are cancelled or signed up for new seasons based on these samples. Preliminary election results are sampled in almost the same way. While no one can say they are 100% accurate, they are accepted as very useful. Its the way we collect data in the modern age!

anyway, steam is very large and these numbers are not meaningless. we can conclude charlie is no where close to correct. Its just not possible.

The Nielsen ratings. don't get me started. it is not terribly accurate but that is what is used.

i would say that steam is more accurate. Steam started asking me about HW a few weeks ago. There was a long gap where there was no pop-up. i always assumed that the survey was taken automatically from each PC whose user agreed to it; but evidently they repeat their request sometimes. i always say yes.
That is why my GT 8200M/dual core mobile Athlon brings down the average.

You mean a dull tool that claims to be a sword? Like Evolucion8 died and was reincarnated in India


http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.ph ... stcount=69

i cannot imagine a GTX 680 at 1340MHz .. it would eat the HD 7970 for a snack and belch it out in radioactive dust.

Here's a review with a 7970 at 1200/1575MHz and the GTX 680 at 1186/3604MHz. I didn't get a "golden sample" from AMD that would do 1250MHz. Even at 1200MHz and drawing well over 100W more than the OC'd/overvolted GTX 680, the HD 7970 is still slower. You would need approximately 1250-1300MHz on the HD 7970 just for PARITY with the GTX 680 at 1200MHz. That would not happen as a stock clock until HD 7980; a complete reworking of it at the transistor level - and evidently AMD blew it in their arrogance thinking that Nvidia would be 6-8 months late and that Southern Islands would be shortly after. AMD did not get a "Respin Insurance Policy" as i suggested they might need, last December.




The charts don't lie. Without a respin, AMD has lost this round. They are using too much power to make overclocking further than 1050MHz practical so as to catch the *stock* GTX 680. Which means when translated (analysis), their pricing on the HD 7970 needs to drop further. They have lost much goodwill from their customers by being overly aggressive.

He is extremely obsessive with the 7970.I won't be surprised if he gets a infraction for thread crapping.Many people will bait him and they will watch the Rome burn.I think he is very young and naive.

Every time I see that name I think Skywalker..... as in Luke Skywalker
Should be more of a tainted RED Vader!

I'm not going to jump in on this shite. I will enjoy my 670 when it arrives. You guys deal with it.


EDIT-- Damn, just noticed I had my Heatware name in RED below. Will change it now