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.
112 Comments on NVIDIA Engaged in PsyOps Against HD 7970: Chinese Forum
How do you figure this when every major benchmark on every mainstream site says different? I'm not trollin, I want to know how you come to the conclusion Bulldozer is the highest performing part on the market when every viable statistic says otherwise.
I don't want fuzzy math. I'm a meat and potatos guy. Sell me Bulldozer. Why should I go with Bulldozer over a 2600K? Price is irrelevant.
You just can't please everyone no matter what you do...
I take all accusations without a single proof with ton of salt, but I don't say it can't be true either. But hell this soap opera about new GPUs has gone out of hands. Have some patience and ignore the crappy rumors till you hear something from the green giant itself.
Can't help but support the green team
They just got new stock of 7970's in the last few days and they put the price up but they're still selling.
The 580's were $699-$799 when they were released in Australia so I dont see much difference there.
Intel's Ivy Bridge IGP running DX11 on VLC :roll:
Sad to see, but even the AMD fanboys are falling by the wayside. Seen it before. PS3 will whoop Xbox360...lmao BlueRay wins the day!?! Stagnant. What's next?
Everyone I know isn't peeing their pants in anticipation of Nvidia nuking the latest AMD puke-card. Story is over. Guess who won?
So...what's next?
More of what we already have. Not only because the current generation is profitable but also because the current generation of consolers are conditioned to "play" whatever the usual Drivel-Makers plop down on the market. (Not all included)
And theyre.....were cheap. Nvidia always had more muscle though. Even though this time I will get nvidia...cant deny how good amd/ati product is...gpu wise
AMD has been providing solid products for the last 3 cycles though, 4800 series might not been fastest out but they were able to maintain good framerates compared to the 2900 and 3800 series. Before that AMD did well with the x800 series despite not having the latest SM tech for that time. X1900/1950 series. Then of Course the 9700 Pro.
Skipped the drivers issue I see. <sigh> same 'ol same 'ol
Anyway. Thanks for making my point. The Graphics Cards Battle isn't about who's best. It's about fan based loyalty. The same holds true with console-playing-weenies.
So, as a purportedly semi-intelligent monky would ask me... wtf?
What's next is the real ?
And?
Thanks! :)