Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
If you look at anhilators posts, they are generally quite neutral. I don't thinks its a matter of putting faith particularly in nvidia. Its that the general attitude is Nvidia is bad, ATI/AMD is good.

E.g underbuilt VRM, terrible quanities, AMD officially raising prices(on the 5870, 5970 and 5950) and using slag marketing tactics and on this forum, they are praised for it or don't under go criticism.

And if a criticism is valid, it somehow gets turned into not their fault or the blame is put on someone else. E.g it works fine under stock settings or games are that stressful in real situations(even those it is marketed to be an overclocked card or future games may prove otherwise), Its TSMC fault(they should have stockpiled longer), the markets calls for price increases(although it has never ever happened before), using slag marketing tactics(this one NV gets called y and some sarcastic comment about whoop ass; when AMD does it cool and everyone laughs at NV).

NV on the other hand does anything and they are reamed out to kingdom come. Some people who have generally a pretty good attitude in general towards both companys like SKYMTL, are criticized for being anti AMD, when its pretty obvious from their comments of past and their reviews that they are not.

This board has turned so pro-AMD, Anti NV that the news section has turned into flame-opulous. Some people even wished death(or joked about it), on Jen Huang, which is Ridiculously over the top or NV to go out of business. It was never this bad before and it started really when AMD started making a comeback. If you look at when the zero tolerance for flaming came into effect it was when AMD videocards became good again.
Well why not take that a step further and analyze why it is many ppl appear to have thrown their weight behind AMD? What has either company done that seems to have created a pro AMD "bias".

1. AMD has had the better price/performance cards, their 4870 rocked the prices of the GTX 200 series and made them much more attainable.

2. AMD has pushed for open standards such as DX10.1 and DX11, it's in their interest to do so b/c they have a smaller slice of the market. But I think most ppl here prefer open standards so they can simply buy the best card for them and still enjoy all the features.

3. AMD has been the first to GDDR5, 40nm, DX 10.1 DX 11 etc, ie they're innovating.

4. NV has closed off Physx and turned it into a marketing tool, they've even blocked the PPU from working with AMD cards, shafting anyone that purchsed for use when it was GPU neutral. It's been shown time and again that with hacked drivers it can work and is reliable. Depening on your view Batman AA's AA falls under here too.

5. Rebranding, Rebranding, Rebranding. I don't think I have to get into this.

6. Stalling innovation/adoption of new standards, ie DX 10.1 in AC.

So instead of crying about how ppl appear to have developed a pro AMD bias, why not analyze why it has come about; what NV can do it to change it, assuming they care to.