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Old 07-22-2009
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Originally Posted by 3oh6 View Post
i believe that keeping the samples is the norm for the industry of small to mid range sites. there have been very few times over the course of my review career that i have been asked to return hardware. i have also only written for two sites so both would be considered small to mid-size, although i think HardwareCanucks is getting close to the bigger end of the mid-size spectrum.

i think it is understood reviewers do this on their own time for small sites and manufacturers understand the hardware is their compensation.

as for the new Dom GT's, as soon as i saw the thread here i fired out a PM to my director to see what we could do. i know Corsair was interested in sending one of TEC cooling units so hopefully i can get one of the new 2000 CL7's with it. now that i have a CPU that can clock memory to almost 1200MHz, i am not scared of those bad boy GT's anymore
Yeah I've never been asked to send anything back that i review/test. Then again I always decline the offers if there's a time limit and I have to send it back - just not enough time with all the testing I do and incentive if the gear has to go back

Jody with TEC RAM cooling eek scary

Personally, I don't see any problems with ES being on hwbot as most retail cpus will eventually spank them - hell even my 2x i7 920 3836A756 C0 step cpus spanked the crap out of early i7 965 ES samples on just plain TRUE120 air!
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