Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
Have you not seen the junk some of AMD's board partners are putting on some of their "reference" cards? Particularly the HD 7950. It ain't pretty....
Are you talking,
"reference"
as in
"the PCB with AMD logo silkscreened and waterblocks are designed for"
or as in
"our PCB is almost the same layout as the reference with cheap components"?

Most of the time, AMD reference PCBs are far overkill...