Hi guys,

I've been on the road the last couple of days, so didn't have much time to read or to reply in this crazy thread. Just wanted to say that we do not build the hardware, we just test it. We did it countless times before (Clarkdale, Sandy Bridge, GTX480) and we will most likely do it again. Our interest is to keep our readers well informed, so we try as much as possible to be very accurate. Until now, I really do not remember being wrong, even though in other threads some people also said that these are bogus tests and so on. Of course, I also do not remember any of those guys saying "you are right" after the final reviews came up, but that is a different story

We have been playing with hardware and testing hardware a long time now, and we will be doing this for a long while, so it would really not be in our best interest to put out wrong tests or anything like this. After all, there is one more day until all the reviews are out, so anybody can compare all the results we got with all the other results from the web and see if we were right or not. I personally am looking forward to that

With this preview, like with all the others, we tried to double-check every little thing, to get the last bios, the latest silicone version, the latest software updates and so on. Also, we could not make a very big preview with many game resolutions, many applications and so on, because we were very, very busy with MOA, so we tried to choose the best scenarios to put accent on the CPU, not on the VGA or anything else. Even so, for a preview, I would say we got enough results, and I am sure that the reviews coming tomorrow will have more, and more results to show exactly how Bulldozer is working.

In the end, remember that competition is the base of progress and evolution, and it is very important for all of us to see good products on the market, so our job as enthusiasts and press is just to show things how they are, in order to help the companies improve their products. It does not matter if it is Intel Prescott, Nvidia GTX590 or AMD Bulldozer. When something should have been better, it is our job to say that so that future products will be better. As a hardware enthusiast I care the most about performance and good products, not about labels and marketing, and as hardware press, I care about correctly informing our readers, not about "shocking" stories that would not be true.


I hope this sheds some light on all the things discused so thorougly in this thread, and also on our position and intentions.