[S/A]How Nvidia blacklists sites like Hardware Secrets

[hurleybird]

Yeah, I don't think Nvidia or Charlie can be taken as gospel. Charlie has been getting the better of Nvidia as of late obviously, but while he tends to do well with fact he tends to exaggerate in his commentary.

As far as people claiming that SKYMTL is pro-Nvidia, you guys seriously haven't read any of his posts in the numerous physX threads? While he isn't an Nvidia fanboy, I find his argument about needing to pay lip service to CUDA and physX as ridiculous. If a reviewer wants to spend more time actually benchmarking than talking about features we all know about, then that's fine. We also can't seriously expect reviewers to touch on every feature. The only problem I can see is if the feature coverage becomes one sided. For example, if a reviewer spends pages talking about Cuda and PhysX without mentioning Eyefinity or SSAA (it may just be me, but SSAA is more important to me than any of those other features combines) on the AMD side that would seem to be betraying a bias. Ditto if the reviewer hypes AMD specific features with little regards for the Nvidia ones.

In terms of whether or not hardware-secrets was blacklisted, I guess time will tell. EDIT: NM, seems confirmed by H-S themselves now.