Quote Originally Posted by Calmatory View Post
I loathe AMD just as much as Nvidia; with the exception that thus far they've been less restrictive and more open with their technologies which means that everyone benefits. Oh, and their ľArch has been superior to Nvidia's, kudos for that. Every single company is there to screw it's customers, yet some people seem to think that "Nvidia/AMD/Intel are the GOOD guys". Wtf?
I don't think anyone are the good guys. I completely ignore the politics when making my purchase, as whoever has the best hardware for the cash I feel like spending at that point in time gets my money. I've owned AMD/ATi hardware, and I've owned NVidia hardware. I've owned AMD processors, and I've owned intel processors. I let my wallet do the talking for my end, and I let the product's performance do the talking for the companies; between the two they generally can come up to an agreement that suits my needs.

At the same time, I also tend to prefer to make sure that information on this site is correct when possible. The most annoying thing you can have happen is to have lots of people give you bad information(I've had it happen myself, got an ATi card back when they pretty much COULDN'T run openGL, not fun), which sways your decision in a way that it may not have gone had it not of been for that bad bit of info. As staff on this site, it's partially my responsibility to correct that information so that others who read this site looking for said information can find what it is they're looking for. Make sense?

There is nothing positive about Nvidia except G80. Dare to disagree? They're hurting the consumer, yet some people have guts to praise them. But hey, at least we've got TWIMTBP, PHYSX and CUDA!!

Though, I'm somewhat interested in their future advancements in GPGPU; not from graphics point of view at all. Gaming is for the weak after all. Once we get +100 GP(GPU) cores which have open(Yeah right, it's Nvidia after all. ) ISA and this under 1 W power consumption, I'll get genuinely interested about Nvidia again. Until then I really see them more as a joke than anything.
Nothing positive, eh? I guess you thought the GTX 460 wasn't a GREAT card for the money? I guess you think the GTX570 is over-priced for it's performance level?

I mean, I guess you might think they're hurting customers by having closed standards, but NVidia did pay the costs to create/obtain those things. Ask developers what they think about TWIMTBP; which helps bring the cost of developing a title down and seriously helps out with the burden of testing a title(try buying all those configurations of systems and see how much just that part costs you). You may see it as them "buying out" games, but the fact is they do assist the developer in doing what WE want them to do, and that is continue to make games for the PC. Considering it's a much higher development cost to do that, it's likely we'd see less titles than we already do without programs like this in place.

Physx, well, I still don't know how I feel about that one. At the same time, there's NOTHING stopping AMD from attempting to make their own standard. We could then see if all their "we don't believe in closed standards" hype is true or not.

As for the final part... So you're pretty much saying ONLY when a 100% impossible non-realistic goal is met that you'll be interested in NVidia's products; yet you have the audacity to call anyone else biased in any way, shape, or form? That pretty much sums up your intentions in a nut-shell, you'll ONLY like a brand if they can do something that is not physically possible, yet you'll buy the other brand regardless... That's an open and shut case right there.