That was exactly your point?
Your exact words are the ONLY two products in your thirty years to LIVE UP TO THE HYPE, were SSD's and the Voodoo 2.
When they were fixed and sorted out yes. Before that? same bunch of.. You know I won't even say it, because no doubt it will offend some one who was. No I won't say that either.
Now you are completely reversing that and saying people that rushed out to get them........ were disappointed because its crap.
Oh dear. Once again I have met some one who automatically assumes things. You seem to do that a lot. SSDs, when finally sorted out and working (which took close to two years) lived up to the hype. Before that? they were nothing but bother. And once again the idio... People who bought them swore up and down they were fantastic. So I borrowed one from a friend. It was good for about a week, then the ATTO benchmarks began to degrade the performance big time.
The fix?
Load up a flavour of Linux after creating an image with Acronis. Hot plug the drive to unlock it, then perform a secure erase. Then boot from a Acronis rescue CD and reinstall the image I made.
Yet according to those who had them that really was no bother at all. Sadly they were kidding themselves, it was a major PITA.
Kinda like the idio.... People who swear up and down that Crossfire is awesome. Yet, fact seems to say otherwise. But hey, keep on assuming things.
No, that was MY exact point, your EXACT point has completely changed when called on it, again.
No, once again you were making assumptions as to what YOU
thought I meant . However, you were wrong. Had you asked me then like now I would have told you. SSDs were utterly appalling and loads of aggravation until TRIM became a given and you owned a legal copy of Windows 7. Up until that point they were horrible, unreliable and a major pain to keep them performing how they should.
Sandybridge had no problems, a new chipset had problems, and very few people had real problems with it and that is one of the first "big" problems like that in donkeys years.
So what you are saying is Sandybridge had no problems, apart from the chipset on EVERY SINGLE MOTHERBOARD that you plugged them into. A chipset made by Intel and solely made and designed to be used with Sandybridge. I see. Thanks for clearing that up then.
Oh wait no, that is a problem with Sandybridge isn't it? one that meant basically ripping the motherboard out of your PC and returning it for. Which of course is no aggro at all eh? just like Crossfire.
SSD's didn't need returning, I had one that stuttered a little, it was FAR better than hdd's and was an early gen but not a J micron controller and was great. It didn't have trim, big whoop, even at their worst they spank hdd's.
So once again this seems to be about you wanting to put up with things that cost lots of money that are, at best, less than perfect. I see.
Again I'll point out you said lived up to the hype, they didn't.
Actually they did. They lived up to the hype that all of the people who owned them created. You know? really quick boot times and almost instantaneous loading of your applications and so on? Sadly they negated to mention that you know? they were broken, and after a couple of months tops ran like dog toffee?
But hey, once again the majority win because they can shout the loudest.
Once fixed and TRIMed on the other hand? I agree, they're rather excellent. But the aggravation before that did not fit the hype.
7970's MIGHT all fail, they likely will not, they WILL be faster than a 580gtx, they will be fast, they will be good, they MAY not be the best value for money in the history of gpu's, so what?
They won't fail. Simply because only one in ten will be buying them because he has a genuine reason for doing so and needs one. The rest will be idio.. People who think they need to buy into the hype, swallowing up all the crap and charts AMD have been drip feeding them for weeks.
It's called - marketing. Something AMD spend millions of dollars on when they really should spend that money on making their drivers better. Something that Nvidia are also completely guilty of yet they don't care. Because it's not about supplying you with a product they want you to be happy with, but about selling you a product and then not giving a crap.
I "rushed out" and got a 5850, had no problems with it, awesome card, I "rushed out" and got a 6950 that low and behold unlocked to a 6970 and offers great performance. I "rushed out" and got a early ssd, and newer ssd's, I "rushed out" and got lots of parts new, and never had a real issue. Lots of people don't rush out, buy things a year later, and still get a mobo they have to RMA. The occurrences of returning mobo for a fixed one type situations in the past thirty years, have been painfully low, low to the degree that branding rushing out to get new kit as somehow hazardous and likely to end up with problems as completely rubbish.
For every success story you give me about AMD I can give you ten in response. I can basically sit here and roll out horror stories about every single company out there that makes computer parts.
I asked a simple question in this thread. Why? why do people feel the urge to basically be a turkey and vote for Christmas? yet they just don't get it.
It's because of that insatiable need that we are in the mess we are in, yet no one seems to understand that.
Just simply keep throwing money at PC gaming when you may aswell burn it.
