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Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

On or off the hype train?

  • (off) Train has derailed

    Votes: 207 39.2%

  • (on) Overcrowding, standing room only

    Votes: 100 18.9%

  • (never ever got on) Chinese escalator

    Votes: 221 41.9%
  • Total voters
    528
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five8five said:
You mean give the exclusives to your "friends" - We scratch your back.............
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Well there is really no point of that when everyone is going to do the reviews on same day. Maeby they did put the paste on cpu some special way that showed Nvidia and Intel in bad light. :D But the real thing here is media outlest being pissy when they are not the first one cash out on information. That should say a lot about them.
 
shankly1985 said:
Think I just buying the Aircooled 64 and Hoping Corsair Release a new version of the HG10 or something. No chance I paying close to £600 WTH AMD
Hope we see the watercooled version on sale alone without the added cost of bundle
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You change like the wind shankly :p

I'm not committing until I see reviews :D
 
B12B6 said:
Well there is really no point of that when everyone is going to do the reviews on same day. Maeby they did put the paste on cpu some special way that showed Nvidia and Intel in bad light. :D But the real thing here is media outlest being pissy when they are not the first one cash out on information. That should say a lot about them.
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I think they were doing it to make a point.
 
BTW,did anyone see the AMD response to the Nvidia tweet:

https://twitter.com/AMDRyzen/status/895751260695035908?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=http://www.tweaktown.com/news/58728/nvidia-welcome-back-amd-threadripper-launch/index.html

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Its a high five gif!!
 
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shankly1985 said:
This is my first time changing my mind :p I have had my eyes on the watercooled version but I have firmly said from day one I will not be a mugg and pay silly prices.
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You've still got time to change your mind again :p

Don't blame you regarding the pricing. There have been some crazy prices listed :(. Hopefully they're not nearly accurate.
 
Kama said:
Hi guys, just wanted to share the prices in the biggest spanish distributor. (they appeared for a while then got removed).
CJww6

First one is the liquid cooled 64, second regular 64, third the 64 limited edition .
I dunno why in here the price for the reference is the same as the limited edition, maybe they both come with a bundle.
edit: i dont know how to post images-> http://imgur.com/a/CJww6
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Rossi~ said:
Holy ****! I didn't think it'd be able to take on the 1080Ti!
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I used to pull this video out for NVidia but with the arrival of Vega......

 
five8five said:
There have been various post about the Limited and the Standard being the same price at various outlets around the world.
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Considering it's the same card with an aesthetic bonus (if you like it) it actually makes sense kinda if the LE was just an equally priced but rare version.

Didn't expect it though because sense and GPU pricing don't usually go along lol.
 
B12B6 said:
Usually even the date NDA ends, is under NDA and it is not to be published. Everything about the products, specs, feel of it when you put it in you back pocket, release date is under NDA. Gamernexus gets greedy for views and publishes information they are under contract not to publish.
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This is where my issue is though what "information they are under contract not to publish" did they publish? none.

They were allowed to show what the CPU looks like, they were allowed to show it installed in a board. But apparently AMD have now retroactively decided that putting TIM on it to show how it spreads is now against NDA, it's stupid.

AMD acting like retards and coming off like villains for hurting a popular YT channel for no valid reason.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
BTW,did anyone see the AMD response to the Nvidia tweet
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Technically speaking that was AMD's CPU division's response to the Nvidia tweet. Will be interesting to see if there's any backlash from higher up or from the GPU division over it, but TBH I wouldn't actually be surprised if some people in the CPU division had genuine animosity towards the GPU division after all the R&D funds it effectively stole off them.
 
WeSbO said:
Ok they "broke" NDA, but what I was pointing out in my last comment, that even though they broke NDA (others did too) it's not a smart move to lock out an influencial tech reviewer, yeah if he'd have posted FPS and all that, the cut off would have been well deserved and I wouldn't have found that surprising. But big companies like AMD should be putting situations in to context, there's breaking NDA then there's "Breaking NDA", GN didn't give out any information that wasn't already known, and the video was informative and he is the only one that covered this thermal paste situation to this extent even after NDA lift. I believe context matters when taking this type of decision.
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Like B12N16 said any early leaks and such can generate big amount of visits meaning advertising revenue to that particular site and obviously NDA obeying sites don't like that.
So it's always balancing for product makers how much of even not really new information leaks they tolerate.
And pretty much "damned if you do, damned if you don't", with someone always finding fault from any decision.
Hence they usually want to control it better just before NDA lifting for all sites to have even field to show their reports/reviews.
 
Bazzards said:
If the mining craze continues, there will be no hope. Miners will purchase all cards regardless, provided they can turn a profit on them.

Removing display ports would have limited effect.
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Ironically it might be consoles and AMD APUs that saves gaming :p If mining is here to stay, that is, for the next decade and more.
 
ubersonic said:
This is where my issue is though what "information they are under contract not to publish" did they publish? none.

They were allowed to show what the CPU looks like, they were allowed to show it installed in a board. But apparently AMD have now retroactively decided that putting TIM on it to show how it spreads is now against NDA, it's stupid.

AMD acting like retards and coming off like villains for hurting a popular YT channel for no valid reason.
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You're talking as if you know what was in the NDA.

The NDA could be as specific as "you may do NOTHING besides show the cpu, the box and motherboard and how to put it in the motherboard"

It's not your beef, it's on gamersnexus for taking the product for review and then not playing by the rules. AMD doesn't owe them anything, the minimum a reviewer can do is stick to the timetable of when to post info that wasn't specifically agreed.
 
ubersonic said:
Technically speaking that was AMD's CPU division's response to the Nvidia tweet. Will be interesting to see if there's any backlash from higher up or from the GPU division over it, but TBH I wouldn't actually be surprised if some people in the CPU division had genuine animosity towards the GPU division after all the R&D funds it effectively stole off them.
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There were a lot of rumours that before zen/ryzen/threadripper the badly performing CPU division was being propped up by GPU sales. I guess the GPU guys resented all their profits being used to support CPUs, while at the same time GPUs were being sidelined.
 
Hotwired said:
it's on gamersnexus
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Haha, don't try and flip this onto them, AMD are quite rightly taking the heat for their own mess up.

Steampunk said:
There were a lot of rumours that before zen/ryzen/threadripper the badly performing CPU division was being propped up by GPU sales.
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It's more a case of AMD spending all it's money to buy a bankrupt GPU company and then having hardly anything to invest in CPU R&D for a couple of years.
 
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