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First Radeon R9 380 review

Why would it come as now surprise that both Nvidia and AMD hand pick their cards they send to reviewers?

Common sense wouldn't tell you that this is what you should do.

You don't think car manufacturers don't select the best/well built cars to give to car journalists to review?

It's a vary rare thing for any review site to go out and "buy" the card they are reviewing.
 
mmj_uk said:
I wasn't accusing OCUK of anything dodgy I was just highlighting that the review sample is likely handpicked by AMD and not necessarily reflective of retail cards, there's not much you can do about that if AMD won't allow you to assess a retail sample. They seem to have quite a tight control of this launch.
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I can do whatever I like with my stock, it is me who won't allow access, not AMD. ;)

I use our stock to play with then we have none for customers and the customer comes first.
 
kernow34 said:
Sorry for the thread hijack.

Hi Gibbo any chance of a rough price the Fury X will be on sale here next week? thanks.
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In stock cards at a premium, we shall do two SKU's in stock at a premium for those who must have and a pre-order SKU at MSRP which will be due 2-4 weeks after launch.
 
mmj_uk said:
I wasn't accusing OCUK of anything dodgy I was just highlighting that the review sample is likely handpicked by AMD and not necessarily reflective of retail cards, there's not much you can do about that if AMD won't allow you to assess a retail sample. They seem to have quite a tight control of this launch.
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AMD haven't denied him the ability to test a retail sample, he said he's not opening one to do it. You really are bored aren't you?
 
-Mike- said:
AMD haven't denied him the ability to test a retail sample, he said he's not opening one to do it. You really are bored aren't you?
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Yep, bored waiting for AMD to actually allow people to see how good their good cards are... we still don't even know if 390X has been upgraded to GCN1.2 or is just a 290X/GCN1.1 rebrand with sub par tessellation performance.
 
Gibbo said:
I can do whatever I like with my stock, it is me who won't allow access, not AMD. ;)

I use our stock to play with then we have none for customers and the customer comes first.
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I don't believe that tbh, you could get an amazing amount of publicity for OCUK by reviewing the card before anyone else, a world first review for OCUK will drive pre-orders if it lives up to expectation.. but you choose not to for the sake of a single sale? why haven't any other online stores done it for the same reason? they're obvious under orders not to because AMD want to keep things under wraps until the very last minute.
 
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mmj_uk said:
I don't believe that tbh, you could get an amazing amount of publicity for OCUK by reviewing the card before anyone else, a world first review for OCUK will drive pre-orders if it lives up to expectation.. but you choose not to for the sake of a single sale? why haven't any other online stores done it for the same reason? they're obvious under orders not to because AMD want to keep things under wraps until the very last minute.
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But why would I open one, when we have samples due before product launch, we will achieve exactly what you are saying without opening stock.

This is why OcUK is a very successful business. :)

If our samples fail to arrive before launch, then I shall authorise stock to be used for review purposes, but I am the boss and I make the decisions.
 
mmj_uk said:
I don't believe that tbh, you could get an amazing amount of publicity for OCUK by reviewing the card before anyone else, a world first review for OCUK will drive pre-orders if it lives up to expectation.. but you choose not to for the sake of a single sale? why haven't any other online stores done it for the same reason? they're obvious under orders not to because AMD want to keep things under wraps until the very last minute.
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I'm sure he is under NDA just like all others, that may not stop him personally looking/running the cards as he sees fit - just not advertise the fact or show any benchmark scores and the like. If he doesn't follow that NDA then he/OC could be sanctioned with low/no allocation, higher wholesale prices etc..

Those sanctions are standard practice to enforce the NDA's, before you go into one about that NVidia are far more venomous when it comes to NDA breakers.
 
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mmj_uk said:
Yep, bored waiting for AMD to actually allow people to see how good their good cards are... we still don't even know if 390X has been upgraded to GCN1.2 or is just a 290X/GCN1.1 rebrand with sub par tessellation performance.
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You're effectively calling Gibbo a liar and only exist in these AMD threads to rubbish the product. I'd say you're just bored....
 
-Mike- said:
You're effectively calling Gibbo a liar and only exist in these AMD threads to rubbish the product. I'd say you're just bored....
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AMD have an NDA for reviews on Fury and on shelf sales, NDA's must be adhered to, but of course reviewers and some select resellers have stock now and what they do with it personally is completely upto them.

As review NDA does not lift we can wait for our samples to play with and have a review ready for when NDA lifts and 8 Pack shall be handling this so he will do it in his time.

mmj needs to realise OcUK is already AMD's no.1 partner on high-end GPU in Northern Europe, I did my job years ago in establishing OcUK as the goto place for high-end graphics boards, particular AMD. ;)
 
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