ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series discussion

[tajoh111]

I have cards, some photos (now deleted) was posted earlier ... as a proof. But if i publish some results, our magazine, me and my supplier will have many problems. Nobody wants the problems, and i decided no break NDA. Thats all, and some crying babies here have to wait for official launch.

And AMD guys (reading this thread) ... pay more attention on your samples and dont call me AGAIN! I am not under NDA, and i can do anything i want ... If you will bother me again, i will post everything results i have !!!!!!

I don't doubt that you have the cards, but its pretty mean spirited to tease us like you did.

E.g telling you would post benchmarks and making people wait hours for you to do so.

Although alot of people have been rude, you are kind of the source of this(or atleast the origin).

We were just waiting for you to deliver and you left us out to dry. I can tell from what Benchzowner said that this act was premeditated. Essentially you set up a sequence of events and you like watching the fallout as it occurred. You like seeing people squirm because you have certain privileges over them. You know how this was going to turn out from the very start and you like manipulating people.

This is how I see the series of events.

E.g You drop a hint of its performance. (e.g you mentioned it performs better in crossfire than a 280 gtx)

You say the card is at home and you need drivers(Its impossible that someone with your resources could not find drivers. Its not like its your first time using a pc)

You watch as people act like dogs, sending you drivers, posting links(like watching beggers dance for pennies)

You post a picture to prove your not some big talker who a nobody in reallife and you mean business(Like someone flashing a gun, even those there are no bullets in side)

You say your reinstalling windows but who needs to reinstall windows just for some crysis numbers, it not like we have to maximize performance.(You did this so people are willing to wait just a bit longer). At this point you were probaly justing watch soccer.

When you know this game no longer has legs, you tell us you can't do it anymore and feel like a bigger man because you have privileges. And you just created a swarm of "cry babies" who envy the information you have.

You might call them cry babies but they are just bitter because the whole time you were just stringing them along.

You failed at least in my eyes as a journalist(because you didn't act professional. If you couldn't say, you shouldn't tease everyone like your are gonna to say something).

And to some extent a hardware enthusiast. Alot of people want to see the specs and the ones that cannot wait are the probaly some of the biggest enthusiast there are. Although we might not get crazy hardware for free or early, it doesn't mean we don't love this stuff as much as you. You should know that doing this type of stuff kind of rattles us because its genuinely hard for us to wait for this stuff, especially since its been hyped up so much.

At the end you don't have to apologize because you see us as nothing, just poor beggers who can't play with the rich kids toy.

I might be over thinking this but my reasoning for this is.

1. Benchzowner said you brag like this all the time.
2. You know how AMD is going to react
3. Why would you ask for drivers(Saying you have only old drivers is like hearing I can't use that soccer ball beause it is orange instead of black and white).
4. You took way longer than you should of for such a simple task.
5. You never apologized for not delivering.