The true reason behind the delay of AMD Cayman 6970/6950? - you'd never wanna know

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This sort of thing happens and I don't think it's big deal,it doesn't affect functions of the card.My theory of how it happened:when you get a lot of parts from a lot of different manufacturers,miscalculations happen,for all we know the team that designed the card didn't account for fan vibration during operation,simply because of miscommunication with the manufacturer of said fan. As simple as fan is,that detail is easy to overlook even for an engineer ,when it's not the your area of expertise.


Also AMD doesn't exactly make these cards,a third party manufactures them,I am not certain about the details but they could be designing the cards(or parts of) as well.


And these things happen a lot and I mean that,any manufacturer is prone.Car makers,electronics makers,in construction when faulty designs get overlooked/approved and noticed/fixed/rigged at the last moment or not at all... but in this case it is moot,it doesn't affect function.



Wood screws is a whole different situation and shouldn't be compared,but when nvidia made thousands of faulty chipsets,that keep dying to this day,that's a situation where design flaw actually matters because it impacts performance,that's why they are getting sued.



Whether or not this was the cause of the delay remains a mystery to me,it could be either way.