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couleur
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 Posted: Wed, 29th Aug 2018 00:40 Post subject: NVIDIA Controls AIB Launch and Driver Distribution |
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| Quote: | First and foremost, NVIDIA has demanded that its AIBs tell NVIDIA who will be reviewing the AIB's custom RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti cards. We were forwarded emails from other reviewers, from the AIBs that were asking specifically, at NVIDIA's direction, "Who will be performing the review content?" "What is that person's phone number and email address?" That is a bit odd, as we have never seen this before in 20 years of reviewing video cards. AIBs in the past have been left to pretty much operate their own review campaigns on new video cards, but that seems to have come to an end. From these lists of reviewers submitted to NVIDIA by the AIBs, NVIDIA has put together its own list of "approved reviewers," and sent their approved list back to the AIBs in order to let them know who they are allowed to sample review cards to. Much like NVIDIA exerted control over AIB's and OEM's brands with GPP, it is now exerting control over who the AIB has review its own custom cards.
This is where it gets a bit more interesting, and likely should give you concern with any leaked benchmarks you see on the web. NVIDIA is not allowing its AIBs to distribute drivers with their review cards. For a reviewer to have access, he must first sign NVIDIA's multi-year NDA (which is fine if you are "just" a card reviewer), then he will log into a protected site which is most likely a secured version of GeForce Experience in order to obtain the driver, and download from there into a specific machine with the new RTX card being present. If you are seeing any benchmarks between now and the ~20th (we think the 2080 launch and 2080 Ti launch will be split on different days possibly), you are likely not seeing cards benchmarked with its launch driver. So keep that in the back of your mind as you see performance leaks come forward. |
https://m.hardocp.com/article/2018/08/28/nvidia_controls_aib_launch_driver_distribution/
Another reason to love Nvidia and how they are shaping the market.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
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tonizito
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Aug 2018 10:41 Post subject: |
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Lovely
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Aug 2018 12:34 Post subject: |
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something smells rotten in NVidia land, cards with stinky performance seem to be on the horizon judging by their actions.
The night is dark and the road is long. Come on dead men, return to your homes.
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tonizito
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Aug 2018 14:53 Post subject: |
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Also... Will the v400 drivers begin the great previous gpu generation gimping of 2018/2019?
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Aug 2018 15:52 Post subject: |
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No one will care when upgrading.
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Aug 2018 16:15 Post subject: |
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| Mister_s wrote: | | No one will care when upgrading. |
This is so true, if you are going to buy it I don't think you care much that HardOCP or any other certain site is not going to review the card before the release date. Once it is released there will be more then enough reviews out there anyways.
By this point most people that are upgrading should know to wait a few months after the release anyways for them to work out any of the bugs that always seem to plague the early adopters.
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Aug 2018 19:23 Post subject: |
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I'm not talking about pre-orders, pre-ordering anything more than 100 bucks is idiotic IMO. I'm talking about when it does get released. In an ideal world, the consumer would punish Nvidia for such practices by buying something else (shitty competition though). How much crap have they done? I bet it's a looong list when you really think about it. You know why I bought my GTX970? It was the best I could buy for my money.
No one cares about this. Just like no one cares about NDAs with games pre-release for example.
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Przepraszam
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| Posted: Thu, 30th Aug 2018 01:36 Post subject: |
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Kyle should just shut the fuck up already. Jeez what a fucking tool
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