Geez, even more shady shit from NVIDIA. I don't see why they're being such shitbags when they're already the top dog in the industry. There's no way this crap is helping their business.
"Only the paranoid survive" I once read
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Geez, even more shady shit from NVIDIA. I don't see why they're being such shitbags when they're already the top dog in the industry. There's no way this crap is helping their business.
nVidia doesn't have to take anyone to court in order to get their pound of flesh. If an AIB vendor sends out a card to a non-approved reviewer, nVidia will somehow come up short on inventory when it's time to resupply that vendor. If a reviewer breaks the NDA, that reviewer can forget about reviewing another nVidia product.
Time to vote with your dollars, people.
So we're approaching driver drm aren't we? Always on connection to approved ip's only that nvidia has a constant webcam feed to in order to verify only authorized reviewers are handling the cards?
So we're approaching driver drm aren't we? Always on connection to approved ip's only that nvidia has a constant webcam feed to in order to verify only authorized reviewers are handling the cards?
Right or wrong in the end is what matters in a court of "Law", but the one with the deeper pockets generally wins. If the disparity of money is large enough, it's the poorer party that won't make it to the "end" especially if they go bankrupt and can't pay their lawyers.
And as far as Nvidia taking [H] to court, I can't see a scenario where they wouldn't want to for any reason they could just to sh*t on Kyle for the GPP PR hit they took.
Holy cow batman, why did you type this over the intarweb ? You want to give an executive an idea ? (Because it can't come from lower anyway)
"Would you like to top up your nVidia coins for additional 3D game play time?"
Again, all I am saying is HardOCP has way more leverage than they realize. And if I had to bet, I would say they are more scared of him vs. the other way around.
Yeah, I was ready to do that with the 3.5 GB GTX 970 issue. But now as back then, AMD has absolutely no competing products.
nVidia should be slapped, publicly.
Already did, bought a Vega 64 last month, couldn't be happier with it, and it's performance!
This is Capitalism 101,: Market share. Quarterly reports. Election cycles. Monopolies.It's just like Comcast's behavior when they have market control in small cities with little to no competition.
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This is some Soviet-era shit.
" Corporate communism: A government > OR < corporate system that is funnelling money=power=control from the masses to a few select individuals, at the cost of competition and choice "
Please explain how the government is helping Nvidia.No. this is Corporatism.
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Please explain how the government is helping Nvidia.
In the past this might be true. But right now the most money coming from the high end segment even if the segment does not have the most volume. JPR report for gaming hardware revenue for 2016 show that most of the revenue generated by high end hardware sales. Even AMD admit this openly in their presentation. That's why Frontier Edition exist.The REALITY is that most discrete graphics card sales are $400 and below...and AMD is competing nicely in that market. The market for 1080ti and higher priced cards is only 5% or less of the overall market. Great for bragging rights, not so impactful on the actual bottom line for either company.
The REALITY is that most discrete graphics card sales are $400 and below...and AMD is competing nicely in that market. The market for 1080ti and higher priced cards is only 5% or less of the overall market. Great for bragging rights, not so impactful on the actual bottom line for either company.
Very good job indeed Nvidia. My stock shares continue to rise and make money. I hope they don’t change a god damn thing.
You don’t want to sign the NDA, then stop bitching. Buy the card and do the reviews on your own when they become available. No NDA required.
NV is betting that there are enough people like him still willing to buy their cards when they make moves like thisDude just because you are benefited doesn't mean unethical practices are ethical. Do you really believe Nvidia really needs to do this with the position they currently have? They sell their cards regardless. They are just using their power to control the reviews and how publishers brake news stories and lock down the AIBs. Their stock prices are rising because they have a good product not because they are being bunch of control freaks lol.
I don't know about the numbers of your voting. 846 say no. But how many members are there really? Thousands and thousands. So that number to me is very low. So what's they actually say about the whole thing. Hey look you now have a member that has 1,000,001 post!! A Million post how does he have time to live.
https://hardforum.com/members/whygrimwhy.311993/
So if reviewers can't get their hands on review sample can't them just secure one for themselves? About driver you might not be able to publish at the exact time when NDA lift but is it a problem? Because i know there will be people going to wait for [H] review before making decision even when they were late.
I really did not say there was an issue, simply letting you know what is going on. On launch reviews, we pretty always have to use the drivers supplied to us, but we can get those from various sources. The long and the short of it is that NVIDIA is controlling who exactly gets to review AIB cards by not allowing AIBs to distribute drivers. I have never seen this happen before...ever.Kyle i don't see the issue here. You wouldn't review with 'Reviewer only' drivers anyway. you would give us real world numbers we can get with real world drivers not some specially clocked super editions.
Sad thing is you need to be ruthless if you want to survive in this cut throat industry. Just look at what happen on Imagination Technologies. They think Apple will always be "honest" with them. It's fine if Apple simply stop licensing their IP but Apple pretty much take theirs and called it their own.Dude just because you are benefited doesn't mean unethical practices are ethical. Do you really believe Nvidia really needs to do this with the position they currently have? They sell their cards regardless. They are just using their power to control the reviews and how publishers brake news stories and lock down the AIBs. Their stock prices are rising because they have a good product not because they are being bunch of control freaks lol.
Dude just because you are benefited doesn't mean unethical practices are ethical.
Very good job indeed Nvidia. My stock shares continue to rise and make money. I hope they don’t change a god damn thing.
You don’t want to sign the NDA, then stop bitching. Buy the card and do the reviews on your own when they become available. No NDA required.
Sociopaths can be ethical. Just not the same ethics as everyone else.Sociopaths don't care about ethics. That's what makes them sociopaths.