Source: forum.beyond3d.com --- Friday, January 10, 2014
First: let me apologize if this sounds abrasive. That is not my intent. That said, let me just get into it - at first this will seem off-topic, but I will correlate it later in the post and tie it all together. Basically what I want to do is get a message to AMD's marketing team and Dave Bauman. I wasn't aware until recently that he posts here. Maybe he'll see this. And take action. Basically, I have severe issues with AMD's marketing being outright liars and misleading me time and time again. Again, please bear with me - I've been a faithful ATI and AMD consumer until recently, from the 9700 pro up to 7970 crossfire. That is when I snapped and decided that I had enough with AMD. Let's begin with where AMD has misled me time and time again. I used 5870 crossfire in 2010, which had tearing in eyefinity configurations. I submitted a ticket to AMD and their answer, to fix this problem, was to get a MST hub. Only problem? MST hubs weren't on the market - this was in 2010. So I submitted multiple tickets to them over many months. Their answer? "It's coming really soon, any month now!". Guess what. MST hubs didn't arrive until 2013, and they only arrived in European markets in FALL 2013. It was not available for purchase from 2010-2013, and was never available in the USA, despite AMD telling me that it was coming really soon. What's funny though is that EVGA, an nvidia vendor, just released a MST hub in December 2013. I think. I find t ...
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