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Is Nvidia Cheating Again?
Posted by Regeneration on November 6th, 2007, 07:36 AM

The website Elite Bastards has investigated some rendering anomalies in the latest ForceWare 169 series. From their report, it seems that Nvidia is playing software tricks again (optimizations) to boost their GPU performance, but for what cost? So far, we have not heard many accusations. However, since we are already familiar with Nvidia and they have a nasty habit: getting into trouble and getting negative publicity, so who knows. It is not a secret that Nvidia’s latest GPUs are currently performance leaders, so why would Nvidia do such a thing? You can read the article here.

Nvidia has not responded to the article officially yet, and it is very likely they will add Elite Bastards to their blacklist along with us, The Inquirer and many other cool sites that is not afraid of telling the truth. Anyhow, it seems that HardOCP’s Kyle Bennett has responded to the article and claimed that ATI/AMD is involved with that article (without any evidence of course). Elite Bastards have responded and denied these ungrounded accusations. Just for the protocol, we have not heard from ATI/AMD about it as well.

A few weeks ago, Tagan accused HardOCP for giving gold awards in reviews depending on advertisement rate. A few months ago, we had some suspicious IP logs point to a possible viral marketing campaign/partnership between Nvidia and HardOCP. This entire story raises many doubts such as: “How come nobody mentioned nor reported this bug in his GeForce 8800 GT review?”

The only conclusions from this incident is do not trust anything you read, and sometimes… small websites are more reliable then big sites. Do not forget to show your respect to Elite Bastards for having the courage to publish this kind of article; even if it risks them with Nvidia and their OEM partners.

Last edited by Regeneration; November 6th, 2007 at 08:20 AM..

11 Comments
Like i said nvidia is cheatind a month ago or so...but nobody was listening:P
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They never stopped they just found better ways to hide it .... until now
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Originally Posted by Mac Daddy View Post
They never stopped they just found better ways to hide it .... until now
hehe i was gonna say the same thing, the question is not are they cheating again, the question is will they ever stop cheating?

Last edited by blindartist; November 6th, 2007 at 03:19 PM..
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where are the fanboys now?
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hahahahhaahahaha
and that is something new
nvidia is well known company that cheats
but they have best sells of their gpus hmmmm
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Originally Posted by gen.Rage1991hrv View Post
hahahahhaahahaha
and that is something new
nvidia is well known company that cheats
but they have best sells of their gpus hmmmm
Thats why they have such good sales, they cheat and buy off review sites to make their cards look so much better then ati when their really not, plus look how many game's theyve paid to have their nvidia logo play at the start, all you see is nvidia everywhere, there are almost no games with the ati logo. Same goes for intel, so many games have the intel logo at startup, just because a company has better sales doesnt mean it has a better product (this is actually true for about 90% of the leading products for anything you can think of). If you compair a market leading product to the underdog, the underdog usualy has a better product quality wise (aka IPod's, their nothing special, there are way better players out there)

Companies these days just make a mediocre product then they start underhanded advertising tricks, they try to plaster their name everywhere so that people only see them, the buy off rewviews and blacklist anyone that doesnt agree, they try to undermine the competitors any way they can. This is why tend to go with the underdogs, they dont use all of these shady underhanded tactics, they generally have a better product at a better price, but most people dont buy them because they dont see their name plastered everywhere they look.

In about 80% of the public eye publicity = quality, and big review sites like toms hardware = undesputable grail of knowladge, so they all buy what their told to buy like the good little sheep that they are.

anyways, thats my rant for the day, times like this im ashamed to have ever owned an nvidia card and supported their evil empire, needless to say im never going back, ATI/AMD forever!

Last edited by blindartist; November 6th, 2007 at 08:16 PM..
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you dident tell me anything new
already know that shit
but put a hand on your hart and say a true that amd/ati screv up their cards 2xxx seriers
they come on market with unfinished product, it have more shaders than a 6 GTX cards and still sucks with performance
its just a bad product and nothing else
nvidia made a huge profit on amd/ati mistake
and you cant blame nvidia for that
we all known when amd and ati merged that amd will fuckup ati (most of people i dident trust that amd will screv ati)
and now who can u blame a nvidia that is greedy or amd that almost destroyed ati ??
i blame amd just him
ati was a great and stabilized firm before amd buyd them
and now we ask how and why is nvidia killing ati and why is nvidia become more and more greedy than before ?? you got answare in my post.

Last edited by gen.Rage1991hrv; November 6th, 2007 at 08:30 PM..
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their not as bad as everyone says, ive done comparisons and the 2900 can hold up to the 8800
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Originally Posted by omagic View Post
where are the fanboys now?
*EVIL laugh* HAHAHAHAHAA
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Originally Posted by blindartist View Post
their not as bad as everyone says, ive done comparisons and the 2900 can hold up to the 8800
Bro.. you are so right... but so very few notice that :|
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i don't even care about Crapsis to worry about this.
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