Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
Regarding the competition:
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NVIDIA Controls AIB Launch and Driver Distribution
.. After its.. NDAs have sought to muzzle journalists that work [directly] with [Nvidia], now it is pushing back on its AIBs [Add In Board makers, e.g. ASUS] in order to control the AIB's actions with reviewers.
..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.
..If you are seeing any benchmarks between now and the ~20th .., 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. .