Quote Originally Posted by trinibwoy View Post
I'm not sure what numbers you're referring to. Price is the only number that matters. Are you saying that reviewing a $130 reference GTS 450 is more "fair" than reviewing a $135 factory overclocked one? Why is that? More than half the 450's on newegg are at higher than reference clocks.
So you'll always get the cheaper card?

People check the performance. This review indicates that GTS 450 would actually be somewhat matching HD5770, while in reality it isn't. Sure, it is actually clear that it's a OC edition, but that doesn't change the fact that they're comparing "GTS 450" to "HD 5770" here. It just boosts the GTS 450 numbers.

I'm not even interested in this particular case, since for me these cards are worthless as I have no plans to buy any discrete cards for forthcoming years as I don't play any modern games. But what I hate is this current trend of making these reviews. It isn't hard to see that Nvidia and AMD are sending out samples with intent to make their cards look better than competitors. Heck, what was the buzz with GTX 280 and 1+n sites doing more or less the same review at exactly the same time, with more or less exactly the same games tested? Then, not only that, but the websites which run the tests with their "test suite"(which usually consists of timedemos) and add the results to a "database" and then one can compare the tests against other cards found in the "database". Just look at this thread "Nvidia cards usually gain performance with driver releases", that should say lots about the credibility of such test "databases".

Guess people don't care about things like small inaccuracies when a driver release can bring up the performance by some 5-10 %, possibly multiple times. And yet difference of 15-25 % between cards is considered a "X COMPLETELY DESTROYS Y IN TEST Z!!". It's just pathetic.

I partly understand that TweakTown is comparing products of the same price range, but I claim that the product was brought to them by Nvidia, with the intent to make their product look better than the actual product they ship to the market is.

Isn't the idea of these reviews to give a consumer an idea of how the product performs? In that case, one could possibly think that accuracy of the results is very important, yet it seems that most of the sites aren't really caring about it. If Nvidia or AMD tells them to use X, Y and Z to test their hardware, the sites will gladly do so, and then the result database with old and not-to-date results. Not to mention that some sites have been using old versions of drivers for Nvidia or AMD in order to make the product look inferior compared to competitors offering(who more or less provided the new heardware).

Is there any site which actually cares to provide accurate and up to date reviews?