Why is Bit-tech so biased??

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Was reading their GTX660 review and they came up with this hilarious line at the end:

"It seems baffling that, despite what feels like a small army of SKUs, AMD doesn’t have a price-point competitor for the GTX 660 2GB. The HD 7850 2GB is 10-15 per cent slower but 10 per cent cheaper at £160, while the HD 7870 2GB is, on average, seven per cent faster but 20 per cent dearer at £220."

LOLWTF?? I see loads of HD7870 cards in the UK for between £180 to £200 with OcUK leading the charge!!

This is not the first time they have done it either.

How,do such websites get away with such poor levels of journalism??

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Bit-tech is quite poor IMHO and this is not the first time they have done this. According to them my Core i3 beats a Phenom II X4 in HandBrake!

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Not saying they are or aren't bias but often these reviews will be drafted up weeks or months before they are released (depending on the site they may also be sitting in a queue for editorial checking for a week or more before going live) and by the time they come out the prices can have changed considerably.

That is no excuse - it took me 10 MINUTES to find dozens of cheaper HD7870 cards and OcUK has the best among the best ones!!

It was funny that they said I was spamming the thread with links to the HD7870 cards which I could find under £200!

They started deleting my comments too and cutting the number of links I had put in one post to show what they were saying was crud!!

The editor PMed this:

"Hello CAT-THE-FIFTH

As per my comment in the GTX 660 forum thread, it would be greatly appreciated if you could stop spamming sales links into the thread. You have made your point and I have responded in kind.

If you continue to edit in additional links or add similar posts, I'll be forced to act further. Consider this your warning.

Hope you understand, but such actions are a little childish.

Regards

Baz"

I doubt they will change the review even in a few weeks time TBH. You only need to look at their original HD7850 and HD7870 reviews:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/03/05/amd-radeon-hd-7850-2gb/7

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/03/05/amd-radeon-hd-7870-2gb-review/10

No rating then and still no rating.

What do expect when Bit-tech and CPC are part of Dennis publishing.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Their review was so biased you could practically see them willing people to buy nV cards

I think it's reasonable to just ignore their "review" as a piece of nV marketing

I linked to a couple of dozen cards you see,which put paid to the the whole "they are only on specials" theory.

Considering that CPC and Bit-tech are very popular,distorting price figures is funny. People making excuses for them are hilarious,as we all want better prices. Hence it is important to showcase other companies also are making products with similar price/performance too.

Its like someone looking for the most expensive GTX660 cards and saying they are £200+ and ignoring all the cheaper ones.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Well the review comments annoyed me enough to go spam them myself later. I would do the same to help nvidia if they were being poorly represented. In some years I prefer red some green, this year red gave me more satisfaction and that review is lies.

I saw your comment - thanks!! Another person picked up on what I said,so they have now amended the summary.

"Conclusion
Slotting between AMD's 7800 cards, GTX 660 2GB fills a gap in that ever-important sub-£200 market. The HD 7850 2GB is 10-15 per cent slower but 10-15 per cent cheaper, while the HD 7870 2GB is, on average, seven per cent faster but ten per cent dearer at around £200. All three cards come out of the mix competitively then, each offering a healthy amount of additional performance the further up the pricing ladder you go.

The GTX 660 is solid value in comparison to Nvidia’s higher-end options too. Averaged across all our benchmarks, the GTX 660 2GB is around 25 per cent slower than the GTX 660 Ti 2GB. While this is a steep drop off (we’re used to around 10-15 per cent gaps between cards), the GTX 660 2GB’s £180 price is also, predictably, 25 per cent less than the £240 GTX 660 Ti 2GB. At least in this case, if you spend that much more, you'll get that much more.

All things considered then, it’s hard not to rate the GTX 660 2GB as the mid-range card of choice for this generation. Positioned precisely between the HD 7850 2GB and HD 7870 2GB by offering a competitve middle ground, at that key sub-£200 price point, it looks like it was worth the wait after all.

*ADDENDUM*
It's been pointed out to us by a number of readers that our initial pricing for the HD 7870 2GB was incorrect. As such, we've amended the final page of this review to reflect this."

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

They are stupid as well as being biased. So many spelling mistakes in a lot of their articles.

Now they have changed the summary after a few people agreed with me(and this despite after all that effort editing my posts,deleting them and threatening to ban me for just showing they were wrong).

OTH,I still like the fact that the original HD7850 and HD7870 reviews still don't have a score months after they were released. Also,I like the fact they seem to get the weirdest HandBrake results I have seen in almost any review. Was LOLing when they said my Core i3 2100 beats a 3.7GHZ Phenom II X4 in HandBrake,which is funny since my Q6600 at 3GHZ is slightly faster!

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

They have definitely declined significantly in the recent years, I've stopped reading custom PC as a result too.

They just seem to get so many things wrong, it's like they want people think they're rubbish.

Of course,people make excuses for them so,its all fine. Some of their results and summaries are plain weird at time, but as long as their symphocants make excuses for them they will continue making mistakes. However,in this case enough people pointed out the issue and they acted which was good.

They may have been fine in the past,but things can change over time. People put too much trust on past laurels, without actually judging sites for how well they are currently doing. You can see this when websites and magazines change staff,and the tone of reviews and the methodogy changes too.

What people fail to realise is that Bit-tech and CPC have a big following especially among slightly less techy people who want to get some advice,so they take them as gospel truth. Sites like Hexus commonly usually do first day pricing articles,so the editorial reasons seem a bit vague.