No One saw Intel Pwning?

redsolar · Mar 9, 2006, 11:17 PM

While the results look certainly very pro-competition, I will have to agree with Z hand down on this one. The ability to do a true review requires building a PC from scratch yourself. Nobody can say for sure what's true and what's not in this controlled setup, and boy we have been PR'ed so many times by now that one would think we should have some sort of "BS Alarm" going off when you see something like that.

If Intel truly delivers a chip like this - I will be the first to take my hat off, since I first and foremost believe in healthy and fair competition. But the "controlled" factor and "fair" somehow sound mutually exclusive to me.

I guess time will tell, and I am waiting for DH Team to do a true in-house evaluation of this very promising new technology. And if it's as good as what Anandtech results show, and the price is right, who knows - I may be swinging Intel when the next build time comes.

Kombatant · Mar 10, 2006, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Veridian3

I have to agree with Zardon on this, its all just a bit to PR'ish for my liking. Intel would have been as well to write the text themselves and send it out as an official release. Websites doing the above makes it look like they are validating results which they have no way of controling. (And thats a bad thing).

We regularly receive performance estimations from companies before launches and i always skip past them because there is no way to validate them... results from testing on your own terms are the only ones that should be published by any reputable site.

Stu pretty much covered what I wanted to say. It's like ATI or nVidia giving us a box they setup that has a Geforce card, and ask us to benchmark it against another box of theirs that has a Radeon card. Would you trust the results?

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redsolar Off duty Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Las Vegas, USA Posts: 1,242 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	While the results look certainly very pro-competition, I will have to agree with Z hand down on this one. The ability to do a true review requires building a PC from scratch yourself. Nobody can say for sure what's true and what's not in this controlled setup, and boy we have been PR'ed so many times by now that one would think we should have some sort of "BS Alarm" going off when you see something like that. If Intel truly delivers a chip like this - I will be the first to take my hat off, since I first and foremost believe in healthy and fair competition. But the "controlled" factor and "fair" somehow sound mutually exclusive to me. I guess time will tell, and I am waiting for DH Team to do a true in-house evaluation of this very promising new technology. And if it's as good as what Anandtech results show, and the price is right, who knows - I may be swinging Intel when the next build time comes. __________________ Real_Men_Do_Not_Use_Space_Bar Main rig: Intel Core i7 930 @ 4.0 Ghz \| Corsair H50 Push/Pull \| 12GB OCZ DDR3 \| ASUS Radeon HD 5850 \| 3x 1TB Samsung F3 RAID5 on Dell PERC 5i SAS + 1TB Hitachi \| MSI X58 Pro-e \| 850W Antec Truepower Quattro \| RocketFish by Lian Li Full Tower Case \| Gateway XHD3000 30" LCD \| Dell 2408WFP 24" LCD \| Dell 2407WFP 24" LCD \| Logitech Z-5500 Speakers \| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Laptop: Samsung x360-34P \| Core 2 Duo SU9400 1.4 GHz \| 4GB DDR3 \| 128GB Samsung SSD \| Intel 4500M w/ HDMI \| WiFi \| Bluetooth \| 13.3" WLED 1280x800 \| Windows 7 Professional x64