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WYP said:
I take offence to the assertation that this site is "bought out" by MSI. We do not get paid by companies for reviews and neither do we decide to not publish negative reviews for a fee.

That whole MSI notebook fiasco was limited to MSI's UK notebook division, which is separate from the other parts of MSI UK (there is a reason why they have two separate Twitter accounts).

We don't tend to deal with the notebook side of MSI, it has been years since we reviewed an MSI notebook.

I haven't watched the MSI video from GN, but I'm sure it paints a broader picture and throws all of MSI under the bus over a single rogue subdivision of MSI. I'm not saying what MSI Notebooks did wasn't atrocious, but you are making big claims by calling me paid off.
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Pardon my ignorance and not wishing to put anything into disrepute, but what was the Notebook fiasco?
 
g0ggles1994 said:
Pardon my ignorance and not wishing to put anything into disrepute, but what was the Notebook fiasco?
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MSI launched a notebook that had awful cooling. IIRC the ducts didn't go anywhere.

They tried to bribe a reviewer not to publish the review, or not mention the cooling etc.

They did something similar when they released a howler of a motherboard for X570 a while ago. One of them had half of the VRM under the board and it had no cooling so cooked itself when using a chip higher than the 3600.

They've started doing this a lot it would seem. Buying silence and good reviews.
 
tgrech said:
If they genuinely offered underhand deals to a British person then they'd be well minded to do a little more than simply refuse, we have some of the strictest laws in the world on paid promotion and advertisement, you can't do that kind of stuff(Taking payments, free stuff, ect, even stuff like heavy airbrushing is illegal in UK advertising) in any UK video content, reviews or not, without very clearly stating it before hand, if there's implication MSI are enticing British citizens into breaking these laws then ASA would have a huge case on their hands. I ofc don't believe for one second OC3D would be implicated in that though.

Good Tom Scott vid quickly covering UK paid promotion laws and the historical reasons as to why Britains are so strict:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SyetdjWMuw
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You posted this one before.
 
g0ggles1994 said:
Pardon my ignorance and not wishing to put anything into disrepute, but what was the Notebook fiasco?
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Someone from MSI Notebooks UK, which is an arm of MSI UK that we don't work with, tried to silence a UK reviewer (I think it was TechTeamGB) when he was due to publish a negative notebook review.

Apparently, there was a discussion of payment for not publishing a review. A bribe basically. All the reviewer wanted was for MSI to double-check his findings before be published.

The long and short of is was that MSI Notebooks UK had a bad employee or several bad employees working for them. We work with different folks at MSI, as motherboards, GPU etc are a different division.

Anyone who claims this issue is anything larger than it is overblowing the issue. It isn't a UK-wide MSI issue, never mind a global MSI issue. To my knowledge, MSI has never acted like this to OC3D.
 
NVidia have released this lovely little demo, not sure when
http://nvidia-research-mingyuliu.com/gaugan/

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Not sure how much truth there is behind this but still surprising

https://www.techradar.com/news/nvid...edented move caused,than from the Nvidia site.

Nvidia will stop selling their cards on their website for the time being and hand it over to retailers e.g. best buy.

I wonder if it had something to do with bot purchases?

What it also means is that those in EU have almost 0 chance to get a founders edition card as there is no 3rd party to support the sales.

n an unprecedented move caused by all the stock issues around these graphics cards, Founders Edition models are now being sold directly by Best Buy in the US, rather than from the Nvidia site.
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Greenback said:
Sure it's not the wall calendar just had a look and games were normal price on US
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Not sure what you are looking at, but here is the amazon link for it
https://www.amazon.com/Cyberpunk-20...=1603159977&sprefix=cyber,aps,225&sr=8-1&th=1

I read it on an article and looked. It'll be on sale for who knows how long. It was $10 off before.
bonus tip I googled it to make sure and found a different article, IGN pointed out that AC Valhalla is also on sale.
https://www.ign.com/articles/daily-...-xbox-one-xbox-series-x-or-pc-and-save-17-off
 
NeverBackDown said:
Not sure what you are looking at, but here is the amazon link for it
https://www.amazon.com/Cyberpunk-20...=1603159977&sprefix=cyber,aps,225&sr=8-1&th=1

I read it on an article and looked. It'll be on sale for who knows how long. It was $10 off before.
bonus tip I googled it to make sure and found a different article, IGN pointed out that AC Valhalla is also on sale.
https://www.ign.com/articles/daily-...-xbox-one-xbox-series-x-or-pc-and-save-17-off
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$10 off not actually $10 a little confusion with the wording
 
So we knew 3070 stock was going to be bad but I didnt realise this bad.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/proshop-rtx-3070-numbers-update

popular scandinavian etailer PROSHOP confirms that they will only be able to fulfill 2.5% of the 3070 orders. Basically only 106 GPUs made it to the etailer. I think all Etailers should do what proshop are doing to be more transparent.

Now before people jump and say well 106 to one Etailer is expected. Know that Proshop stocks not just for Denmark, but for Norway Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany and Austria.

So yeah 106 cards to supply orders for 7 countries...

This is what Proshop keep updated. And do the same for the 3080 and 3090

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looz said:
Or do they? :P
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well according to Proshop yes. Main warehouse is Denmark. Might have warehouses more local to the countries, but it still mostly initiated via Denmark first.

I had the same problems some months back when ordering a different product. Ordered some CL Ultra TIM. Had to wait for the stock to arrive in Denmark. They then sent the batch stock incorrectly to Germany so my order was delayed.
 
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