Friday, January 27th 2012
NVIDIA Engaged in PsyOps Against HD 7970: Chinese Forum
A lot has been said about NVIDIA's upcoming product with which it will compete against AMD's Radeon HD 7900 series, except of course, pictures, benchmarks, and so on. Chinese tech forum ChipHell accused NVIDIA of deploying shills across forums to shape public opinion about the already-launched HD 7900 series, towards waiting for NVIDIA's competitive product, these include blind talk about imaginary performance superiority, killer price, etc.
Chinese forums have recognized patterns in this spurt of anti-AMD and pro-HD 7970 imaginary-competitor product posts and banned scores of user accounts engaged in this activity. There's a very potent reason why ChipHell's observations shouldn't be met with cynicism, or made light of. In China, competing factions in the ever-ruling Communist party have been known to use what is known as "the 50 cent army", where for a pittance, scores of internet forum posters can be engaged to perform coordinated PsyOps, to shape public opinion, and maintain public support. It is only natural, then, that competing companies in the extremely competitive Chinese domestic market resort to similar tactics, including those distributing NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, or, as Chip Hell alleges, NVIDIA itself.
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Chinese forums have recognized patterns in this spurt of anti-AMD and pro-HD 7970 imaginary-competitor product posts and banned scores of user accounts engaged in this activity. There's a very potent reason why ChipHell's observations shouldn't be met with cynicism, or made light of. In China, competing factions in the ever-ruling Communist party have been known to use what is known as "the 50 cent army", where for a pittance, scores of internet forum posters can be engaged to perform coordinated PsyOps, to shape public opinion, and maintain public support. It is only natural, then, that competing companies in the extremely competitive Chinese domestic market resort to similar tactics, including those distributing NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, or, as Chip Hell alleges, NVIDIA itself.
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semiaccurate.com/forums/showpost.php?p=150135&postcount=374Given his position on Nvidia as a company and reading through the S/A forum and seeing his posts and the forums response, I'm thinking CD knows more than the stuff filtering from Chiphell.
And let's face it, what's stopping AMD using the same tactics to have actually started this new, Nvidia conspiracy?
Too many web folk read one thing and attach 100% truth to it. Me? I'm leaning back to a watercooled 7970 unless i hear from NV soon.
As MM and many others have said, all rumours for now and we'll know when the goods hit the floor.
But I also couldn't agree more, I dont count on anything until the cards get benched (and i also multi source reviews from a few other neutral sites).
Also, the fact that AMD can also resort to such practice, doesn't legitimize it.
There is no actual proof NV (or associated individuals) is involved and no proof AMD (or associated individuals) isn't - that's my viewpoint here. Until i have confirmed* facts, the web and all media for that matter is nothing more than an interesting story.
*Which in itself is an existentionalist philosophical roundabout.
But for the record during the test in question one of the orphaned hearts stroked out so I can not reproduce my findings :ohwell: