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gamingmaniac

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I've heard that Nvidia and Intel pays benchmarking sites and reviewers to give better benchmark scores and to write positive reviews about their products, I always liked AMD better coz it just give u more bang for the buck
Just curious!
 
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I would venture to guess that AMD, Intel, Nvidia all engage in those types of activities to as much of an extend as their respective budgets allow. That is why using multiple sources is important, at the end of the day its close to impossible to know what is motivating any 1 individual reviewer.

But to think that Nvidia and Intel are engaging in this type of behavior while AMD is not, would be naive. Nvidia and intel just have larger budgets.

@that bf4 comment-- the benchmarks were probably run in single player, multi player is never going to run as well as a single player benchmark. And BF4 is an AMD game, nvidia would not being using it to highlight performance of their products.
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All I know is that they send the best of their products to them. Such as when overclocking, you might get a "lucky" processor that can be overclocked high with good performance.

They do this is the same way, they send the "lucky" ones off to reviewers.
 
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who knows? things like this people can accuse but often they can't get clear evidence to prove it. but at the very least i know both AMD and Nvidia have benchmark guidance they gave to reviewer how to benchmark their product. but in the end it is up to reviewer how to do their bench. either follow the guide or do it their own way or a mixed of both. i believe most reviewer use the third option.

also to me AMD, Intel and Nvidia are all the same. there is no good or evil. just profit making company that try to win your business.
 
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I would venture to guess that AMD, Intel, Nvidia all engage in those types of activities to as much of an extend as their respective budgets allow. That is why using multiple sources is important, at the end of the day its close to impossible to know what is motivating any 1 individual reviewer.

But to think that Nvidia and Intel are engaging in this type of behavior while AMD is not, would be naive. Nvidia and intel just have larger budgets.

@that bf4 comment-- the benchmarks were probably run in single player, multi player is never going to run as well as a single player benchmark. And BF4 is an AMD game, nvidia would not being using it to highlight performance of their products.
 
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everyone including AMD does that. They actually got caught with their pants down recently too. They sent binned 290x's for review that ran cooler and therefor throttled less and performed better. the GPU's people got on store shelves throttled to around 800mhz to stay below 95c when gaming. I was that kid once, screaming foul to defend my favorite company but I was blind and thanks to my ivybridge at 4.8ghz at 1.28v running 60c max under prime... Now I seeeeeeeeeee. Intel doesnt need to bin these chips. Back in the day though, they didn't take kindly to competition and payed companies like dell to exclusively use intel chips. thus being anti competitive.
 
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