Teizo
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- Oct 28, 2010
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Lol. Well, if the performance was there and the price was good, are people just supposed to buy AMD like blind sheep just because it was an AMD launch event?Yes. Basically by including a clearly labled OC'd card in the review, Anand single-handedly swayed thousands of idiots into buying nV instead of AMD.
Of course when AMD lowers IQ to improve benches, there are 1000 other possible reasons besides malice.
I almost bought a 6850. In fact was planning on doing it, but when I measured the inside of my case I realized that I was going to have space conflicts, and since the 460 was smaller it was a better fit for my needs. And given the fact that the 460 I chose was clocked @ 765 from PNY, that put it just as fast as, or perhaps ever so slightly faster, than the 6850 since the 6850 was only marginally faster than the reference 460 to begin with. Buying a 460 was not a dumb move on my part one bit, especially since the PNY 460 I bought has a true lifetime warranty.
Fact is, you don't see many reference 460s on the market. Most, if not all are factory overclocked. So, when looking at a review compairing a 460 vs a 6850, it doesn't really represent what is out there on the market from the end user perspective and what the customer is going to get because most 460s are clocked @ 720 and up. That in part was why Anand included the card in the review. It's not the norm from how things usually are, but it is how it is.
So, all in all, there was no harm in adding the EVGA FTW in the review except to fanboys who got their feelings hurt because Nvidia showed up to the game ready to play and left the 68's as not the clear favorites as they had hoped for. All this whinning and moaning over it makes people look like complete fools; especially with some of the rhetoric and accusations being spewed. The only real issue with the card I can see is that it was an EVGA card, and not an Nvidia card per se...so it was a card that was not available to all Nvidia AIB's. From that point of view, there is a legitimate gripe perhaps. However, since most 460s are overclocked from the AIB's to begin with as stated, it is somewhat of a moot point.
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