http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-Ra ... 14431.html

It will be fascinating to hear what those who condemned and crapped on g92 and the retail cards based on it have to say, won't it? ....

Though I believe ATi still proudly holds the record for rebranding while simultaneously castrating with R200's bastard offspring....

HQ already sent them a memo to say "It's OK because NVIDIA did it". Seriously go read any thread on the internet about this.

But it wasn't OK when nvidia was doing it! And I say that because of the pissing, moaning and whining the fanATIcs were doing about it at the time.

Then again, we all know that logic and consistency aren't exactly fanATIc strong traits.....

You have to realize that it is *orchestrated* - lead by a conductor. A shill - or in the case of ATF, many shills who work together to praise AMD, minimize any damages, ridicule those who disagree - and even lie about Tech site owners and their reviews.

This can prove very damaging for AMD just as it did for Nvidia years ago. My hope is that AMD's CEO will get involved and make serious changes to cut off what some in AMD PR have turned a blind eye to (just as their competitor also did - years ago). Someone needs to show him that their OWN viral fans ruined the Bulldozer launch with stupidly unrealistic expectations. And now that same viral is back in CPU posting BS 'user reviews'. However, over there there is a Big Backlash and it will take some time for posters to forget.

i do not think Bulldozer is a failure. It is priced a bit high but it competes performance-wise and it is an upgrade path and it has a upgrade path. i think AMD will get it right with Win8 and PileDriver and i applaud competition for Intel just as i do AMD competing on an equal footing with Nvidia.

As to HD 7970, i hold much the same view as Ryan Smith does and i would have (and did say) the same thing about it. i went on further than he did with my own speculation that HD79x0 is "more transitional" than usual - like x1800>x1900 (or GF100>GF110). That AMD may have a good strategy even though it is expensive to do so.

This came from the other forum. There is NOTHING factually wrong with my preview. i wrote (twice) in my preview that it was pure speculation that any parts were disabled and it needs no update there. What does "pure speculation" mean? ABT's readers are always directed to ABT forum where i did confirm that there are no "hidden parts".

i like AMD. CPU and Graphics, and i have always liked AMD. However, their toleration of viral marketing is hurting them and their image. i really do not think that, either their CEO is unaware of it, or perhaps he is already cleaning house and making the formerly paid shills even more bitter having recently lost their source of free HW.

If he cleans it up, he is brilliant and there is a great chance to make AMD even better.

Trust me, I realize. I'm just having fun driving the boot into them at the moment, that's all.

Hypocrisy, Irony and Dignity are not in their dictionary.