If True.. Oh Dear Nvidia!

[kshtas]

These images are courtesy of Fornowagain:

If you look at the end of the board, you can see what appear to be parts of two stickers.

You can see a bit closer now, this board has blatantly been chopped, there's a red line that looks like a guide line for the chopping

Notice the way the 8 pin connector doesn't line up with the 8 solder pads? You can also see 2 lone solder pads where the board has been cut, and my guess is that was where a 6 pin connector used to be.

Also take note that the 6 pin connector on the side doesn't connect up to anything. From this angle it's more obvious to me that the board had been hacked off, I've never seen solder points so close to the edge of a PCB, doesn't look right at all, as well as there being a screw hole right where the 6 pin connector is.

Then you have the backplate, which I think is a cover up of the traces that go to and from the GPU as well as a cover up to stop people seeing the size. You can't tell what size the GPU is, so you can't see for sure if it's using an old PCB from an other card.

Without the cover you'd see that it wasn't a fermi board as the GPU is supposed to be nVidia's biggest yet.

Classic kylew, make up facts to spread that ATI is better than NVIDIA.

Man have you got some issues... seriously get help.

Exactly, Kylew need some serious help.

 

[kylew]

Classic kylew, make up facts to spread that ATI is better than NVIDIA.


Exactly, Kylew need some serious help.

When did I say they were better?

Yet another resident troll.

This guy has a post count of 7 despite having posted over 100 comments now, most of what he posts gets deleted because it's junk nonsense.

Get the hint.

I'm starting to think they're another user with a second account, because their sole reasons for posting usually are to promote how much better nVidia are than ATi even when nVidia isn't mentioned by anyone prior to this troll showing up.

Doesn't anyone else think that it's seriously low to tell some one to get help because people don't share the same opinion?

 

[Axil]

Going back to the Inq and Fud to be honest I think most of the tech sites on the web have been going downhill for years, in fact I would say they've been progressively going downhill from the days when web advertising revenues took a drop (this was about the time that www.bxboards.com called it a day )

Compared to what there were like back then it's now a whole different ball game, Tom's Hardware for example seems to just adverts post Tom Pabst leaving and even Anandtech seems to have smaller less thorough articles and more advertising content

As for Fud and Inq - they were never reliable sources even in the days of the BX chipset but the people behind them aren't stupid they just know that the typical punter is hooked by drama, Tabloid style headlines and doesn't really look beyond that. Hence to reel in the hits from punters that is they way both have gone.

 

[kylew]

Going back to the Inq and Fud to be honest I think most of the tech sites on the web have been going downhill for years, in fact I would say they've been progressively going downhill from the days when web advertising revenues took a drop (this was about the time that www.bxboards.com called it a day )

Compared to what there were like back then it's now a whole different ball game, Tom's Hardware for example seems to just adverts post Tom Pabst leaving and even Anandtech seems to have smaller less thorough articles and more advertising content

As for Fud and Inq - they were never reliable sources even in the days of the BX chipset but the people behind them aren't stupid they just know that the typical punter is hooked by drama, Tabloid style headlines and doesn't really look beyond that. Hence to reel in the hits from punters that is they way both have gone.

Most of them are just trying to get the hits to bring in the monies from advertisements.

Most reviews now are just a few pages with bar charts on them, very few sites actually do in depth reviews of stuff, which is a shame.

 

[kshtas]

I've had one of them trying to threaten me by telling me to watch my back if I go to the OcUK 3D gaming event this saturday.

I don't have a clue what they thought they were gonna do or why they even said it, but still, it was one of the resident nVidia trolls.

Obviously that was a joke, but you take things seriously like the whole “NVIDIA vs ATI” thing.

 

[markiejt]

Its rather comical how angry and defensive some people get over a component manufacturer.

Its like a rolls royce owner going and beating up a bently owner... whats the point they're both nice cars!

Best comments seen in ages!

 

[kylew]

Obviously that was a joke, but you take things seriously like the whole “NVIDIA vs ATI” thing.

Take note of what I've just said please. Most of your comments get deleted because you start the ATi versus nVidia thing in threads when no one has even mentioned anything about it.

 

[Final8y]

kylew just ignore them.

The fact is bad behaviour & practice is just that.
There will always be people who are ok with that as long as its not being done to them & they are gaining something from it & its nearly always impossible to speak out about it without people assuming that your cheering for the competition.

NV are getting what they deserve & yes it may lead to higher prices. No Pain No Gain.

 

[DeadMan]

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2009/10/07/nvidia_abandons_market6363636363

 

[JediFragger]

Right boys, this is getting out of hand now & am gonna close. The gfx-mods can re-open if they wish but I can see some problems arising if this is kept open for much longer.

 

[JohnnyG]

These trolls are getting out of hand now, there's so many of them and it appears when nVidia trolls sprout up, nothing seems to be done about them.

2 of them have been banned (albeit the same lad) but trolling is a 2 way thing and it would help if certain people didn't rise to their bait in the first place

This thread is staying closed.