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AMD thanks user for reporting a major bug

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After finding and reporting a major bug in 14.9 WHQL drivers, AMD decided to thank me by gifting me a new GPU, an XFX 295X2 !

Massive thanks to Roy for the gift and Cy for getting it to me!

More pics will follow, right now I'm about to install this beast and hope my PSU is up to the task!
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Win & P does nothing when Eyefinity is enabled, and Eyefinity 3.0 is their new feature of these drivers
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http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=393794
 
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Good to know the driver report is doing it's job, positive fault fix result leaving a very happy owner of the fastest card on the planet and positive PR in the community for AMD.

Fleshwerk said:
Great PR for amd. Can't see nvidia doing that!
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Nvidia give out free gpu's too-as long as you send your rig to Nvidia Santa Clara -as they can never recreate the bug in house!:eek::o:p:D:p
 
Fleshwerk said:
Great PR for amd. Can't see nvidia doing that!
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Actually they do for just being a member of there focus group which has been going on from about 2004 in secret until some forums found out who some of the members were and insisted that it was declared in the signature.

Nvidia ‘Focus Group’ Member Details Hidden Program
http://consumerist.com/2006/02/08/nvidia-focus-group-member-details-hidden-program/



http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=26199

This member used to be Moderator at Anandtech which was taken away after they found out, he is a Moderator at the official Geforce forum.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=36772854&postcount=132

Forum Signature.
Member of Nvidia Focus Group
NVIDIA Focus Group Members receive free software and/or hardware from NVIDIA from time to time
to facilitate the evaluation of NVIDIA products. However, the opinions expressed are solely those of the Members.
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And Rollo is another famous Nvidia Focus Group member who's been banned from many forums because of behavior which had nothing to do with being a Nvidia ‘Focus Group’ member.
 
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Fair play to the guy, but isn't this a fairly basic feature of eyefinity? I'd be grilling the driver team to see whose muck up it was, you'd think/hope these kinds of things are caught before they go out.

Wonder how long it will take for someone to kick off at someone from amd via Twitter/other sm.

"You fixed that problem I reported, where's my new gpu???"
 
I would imagine AMD shifted far more 295x2s than nvidia shifted Titan Zs, but nvidia probably didn't bother making as many...
 
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