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NVIDIA Unveils (And Tom's Reviews) The GeForce4
EconolineCrush writes: "NVIDIA has finally revealed its GeForce4 Titanium and MX graphics processors. Tom's Hardware has a some benchmarks comparing the new offerings to current products, and the results are pretty interesting. Meanwhile, The Tech Report does an excellent job cutting through the hype with an examination of each new chip's features. Both articles are well worth reading to get the full story on the latest from NVIDIA."
OK, I first want to admit that nVidia makes some good graphics chips. Right now there is nothing out there better for gamers (even though I personally don't care about gaming).
My problem with nVidia comes from their arrogance towards my friend, and also me here at the CES. We run a site called Target PC, and we scheduled a meeting with them at the conference. This was my first time meeting them, and my friend's third time. He didn't even want to do, because he knew that he was going to get mad, again. I didn't know what he was talking about, until we got there.
Our site gets several thousand visitors a day, and we both it's beyond reasonable to have nVidia send us reference boards for review like they do for the other major websites like Tom's Hardware and Anandtech. We get to talking to they guy about this, and he turns into a major jerk. He starts making up lame numbers, saying that they can't afford to send these cards to us, bla bla. He basically told us that they don't care about us, or our website.
He might as well told us to "get the fuck out of here, and don't come back". My friend said this is how he got treated before, also.
So anyway, I though you all might want to know how they treat reviewers who's names are not Anand or Tom.
(Flamebait powers on)
What is it with you guys? Every time something comes out on a review site like Anandtech, Tom's, or wherever else you whore it out? Us poor folks who actually read those pages on a daily basis end up with unloadable pictures and pages at time due to their sites being partially slashdotted.
I just don't understand why it's so hard to get YOUR OWN INFORMATION. Why not link to a report on nVidia's site instead of an independent reporter? Especially one that you link to (literally) 3 times a week? Please.
All I ask is that you be a little more original. Don't link to Tom's/Anandtech every time they update.
If it were on paper, I wouldn't even use it to put down for the puppies. He (they) destroyed his credibility with that Microsoft ad disguised as an X box review the other day. Pah. BC