NVIDIA GTX295 Preview/Review

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all previews using the same games

...and from the first preview:

NVIDIA was rather picky about the games we could use to test the GeForce GTX 295 for this preview and one of the approved games was first person shooter, Far Cry 2.

Basically they are sponsored by Nvidia and have to go by what Nvidia allows them to. No wonder the numbers look good - there is a reason why they don't want to show certain games.

The 3 GHz 65nm Quad & Cat 8.10 in the first preview are sponsored by Nvidia aswell, I guess.

Is this what hardware reviewing has gone to?

Nvidia_respect--;

We knew for sure that the GTX295 will beat the 4870X2 in majority of titles and supposed to be more expensive , i don't know why some people don't want to accept it , You need only to read the specs to know that it is faster ...

I don't care who has the fastest hardware out. I am more concerned about the previews and bias in them. How are we supposed to get real information when Nvidia itself is telling "You can only use this and this game because the rest do not look so good for us!"? Why should we believe what Nvidia tells us? I understand that Nvidia itself is not really telling us anything, but more like showing us what they want us to see. Showing us only the good stuff. I completely understand that it is PR, but it really takes quite a bit reliability away from the sites which do not make it clear that the games are picked by Nvidia. Same goes for AMD/ATI aswell, but I haven't really seen this kind of acts from AMD/ATI, as I've seen from Nvidia.