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Originally Posted by karmakazi
Well for every gulftown they get for free they have to spend HOURS reviewing, testing, writing about what we would consider "crap" hardware (like 1600mhz 8-8-8 ram kits). I see both sides of the coin here and im not taking sides. Do try to see it from their perspective. Yes they get some free hardware, but also yes everyone dumps on them for it. Trust me all the guys in Pure spend tons of their own dough for their hardware. Even vince spends his own cash on some gear.
Does getting some free gear help? Sure, but they have put in years of work to get where they are. They didnt just get intel/company X to throw hardware at them by doing nothing. They all started out where all of us unsponsored people are now. They just got in earlier, and pushed it hard for a long time until they were noticed. And then people dump on them b/c they get some bits for free. Well they also do hella amount of testing beta bios etc for improved efficiency and working out bugs, which ALL of us get the benefits from.
Perhaps some of the responses were a bit caustic, but this is far from the first time people have raised the sponsored/ES/pre release/blah blah blah argument. Im sure theyre just tired of hearing it is all... 
Edit: and as I also said over at KPC, great results Jor, I hope you get the 2:8 sorted (try more VTT?).
Edit#2: 90% of the samples these guys get are duds/average also. Brian had to buy a whole slew of 5870 to finally get one that did great clocks. People see the great results and instantly think "golden vga" "handpicked from a tray of cpus" but in most cases that is NOT how it works. |
Karma, the problem is the elitist bastard attitudes that some portray. Everybody knows that the big dogs followed the same route as everyone to get where they are, but its the bullshit "I'm better than everybody, and who are you to question me" attitude that turns me off. I mean there are some generally nice guys in there giving shit about what he chooses to put in his submissions? Gimme a break. You can't defend that sour puss attitude.
I don't care who is sponsered. It's a great thing, but to act like "working" at your hobby/passion is so exhausting and we just don't know how hard it is. *yawn*
Sponsers are great, and I hope to see a few of these guys who bust their balls pick some up one day, but I sure hope they humble themselves and remember where they came from.