So please let us know why he has just posted up this hour long video of every minor indiscretion (and some not so minor) that NVidia have ever made, I cannot wait for the one on ATI/AMD, but I seriously doubt he will ever do one on them.
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So please let us know why he has just posted up this hour long video of every minor indiscretion (and some not so minor) that NVidia have ever made, I cannot wait for the one on ATI/AMD, but I seriously doubt he will ever do one on them.
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He doesn't need to post a video bad-mouthing AMD, there's enough people in here to do that for him
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People only see what they want to see. It makes me sad people waste their time on such stuff. How long did that video make to try to spread hate? GPu's and crypto have a few things in common. 1. GPU's are used to mine crypto
. 2. Both have sometimes fanatical/cult like followers and it's all rather sad.Sorry folks but no 1 individual or company is perfect. I'm fairly sure we could examine the life of the guy that made that video and come up with a huge number of unethical/immoral behaviour of theirs
. I've not even watched the video either and won't be.NV bangs out brilliant products and like it or not, their boss is a bit of a genius.
Reminds me of a few years ago. After the Pascal launch a few years ago people were being too judgemental about what it was like to work there/with him, because of the way he spoke to someone. Turns out it's one of the best companies to work for and you don't get that by the boss being a horrible guy to work with OR by being a company that has really unethical practices.
Someone email them to say stop wasting their energy on negative rubbish and go and help some homeless people or something
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I never liked PCpers site anyway but I would ask what was the research context and detail is important. Posting the dudes personal details is quite "poo" as anyone who spent 5mins on the internet will know what will happen. I wonder how "Jim" (if that is his name) would like it if someone who doesn't like his content did that. Is it not illegal or something ?
A principle is being biased.
Not sure the dictionary will agree with principle and biased having the same meaning
As an aside I'm pleased to see it pretty respectable in here despite the subject matter. As for Jim posting up someone's home address that is definitely out of order. There are some nutters out there!
Not sure the dictionary will agree with principle and biased having the same meaning
They are different but do go together.
Bias does not mean negative so you could say someone is biased in a certain direction because of their principles.
If he had just said NVidia as a company are £$%^&*()" we would agree and be spared having to watch an hour long rant.
Also why did he need to include that video of someone using a 4 letter word, that is just childish.
Also why did he need to include that video of someone using a 4 letter word, that is just childish.
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Undoubtedly.
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They are different but do go together. Bias does not mean negative so you could say someone is biased in a certain direction because of their principles.
You very clearly meant it in a negative way though. I agree that bias is not necessarily a bad thing. Everybody is biased, it's the reasons behind the bias that matters and AdoredTV clearly states why he dislikes nVidia.
If someone disagrees then make a video/post stating their reasons why.
Some of us want the details behind why people think the way they do. If he'd merely stated his opinion with no evidence then why should anyone take him seriously?
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He could have principles for his personal purchases and still be unbiased in reviews. I'm not saying he manages thatA principle is being biased.
but still.Sounds like a fair description of almost all of the tech-press and casual commenters!
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This is the internet where people will say something as fact with nothing to back it up with and others will believe it as it suits them.
There was someone on the Fud comments saying the 1st gen GCN was made for Sony for example.
We actually appear on the same page on the history tree thread:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/your-graphics-card-history-tree.17817281/page-47
I've had 11 Nvidia cards, 3 ATI/AMD and 3 'others' (S3, 3Dfx, Matrox). I've bought whatever was best for me at the time. That has included the 9800 Pro, 4870 and lastly the 5850. AMD just haven't been the choice for me for quite a number of years.
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Same here my last setup was 5850 xfire which where lovely when they worked but broking 3 sets of drivers for three AAA games in a row (Rage, BF3 and Skyrim) i gave up and went with the much hotter and not much faster GTX 480 sli and did'nt look back.
In terms of overall non AMD and Nvidia cards ownership its a 5/7 split to nVidia if you included my frist setup as separate cards (Ati Rage 2 + Voodoo) would be greater overall if you include the old S3 cards and AMD mobile GPU's ive had in laptops
AMD dodgyness |<-------------->|
Nvidia dodgyness |<----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->|
As far as I'm aware, Jim has never posted Ryan Shrout's home address. According to Ryan, fan boys were upset with PC Perspective after the video "a flawed perspective" and took pictures of his home address and emailed them to him. Ryan then said that Jim was provoking people with the inflammatory content of his videos and this put people in danger and so Jim should stop and take down the video (which he did temporarily by making it private) because he was worried for his and his family's safety. If they indeed got his personal details it was through doxxing and at no point did Jim provide them.
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Jim Keller is a contractor, he doesn't stick around after his job or project is complete.
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Its out of date as I have had a few cards since then - I had 28 cards myself since 2003,16 of which were Nvidia and 12 ATI/AMD ones. I tend to do midrange/lower high end stuff in SFF rigs(think Shuttles and mini-ITX boxes) and only once did I have a game which would not run at decentish settings or good enough framerates and that was ARK,which even was a pain for mates with better systems.
It does not include home PCs(they were not mine) before then,or any of the work builds I did or cards I played around with for mate's builds.
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Just totally wasted an hour watching the video
Can this guy spell for starters Latin Invidia is not the same as English NVidia.
What I got from the video is NVidia are very naughty boys which we all knew already.
The guy is very very biased as by his own admission he has not bought an NVidia card in the last 10 years. In the last decade NVidia have produced some very good cards and to avoid buying them says something about the neutrality of the author of the video.
At this point I would like to thank my mate Ron Bacardi for helping me get through the video, I could not have done it without his help.
nVidia isn't a real word. It's a stylised version of the Latin word "Invidia." The intent is for it to mean the same thing, though. Hence their logo being a green eye.
Avoiding buying nVidia products doesn't mean he isn't neutral, it also doesn't preclude him from being objective. nVidia do far worse things, malicious in fact, than AMD.
Most of AMD's mishaps are down to incompetence, rather than contempt for the customer and industry. I don't like buying nVidia hardware. I don't want to support them, and if I could I'd avoid their stuff.
Unfortunately, for however long you can only get a decent laptop GPU that was made by nVidia, and the work I do and the level of performance I need means I have to buy nVidia.
I have issues with nVidia, but they aren't related to AMD in any way. I'm not an AMD fan, they're simply the only alternative for people who can't stand nVidia as a company.
But that doesn't stop me from being objective about a situation, and that's a point that people seem to struggle to get. Just because someone might be biased against nVidia, doesn't mean they are incapable of being objective.
You should be judging on the merit and truth of what's being said, not on the basis of it being negative against 1 company specifically.
The fact is, there's significantly more negative things to say about nVidia because of how they choose to conduct their business.