I have these since March as they were made available in Asia much earlier. They're great value for the price, but the remote design is awful. The back is basically a half tube so it rocks if you try to press a button when it's just lying down. That's Chinese UI/UX/design for you.
Heading out to get one now, nothing wrong about getting the most bang for your buck.
The dual-bios is starting to make sense, no point getting your noob 6950 customers bricking their cards performing their "free" upgrade.
ok thnx
My theory is that MAD knew of this already and since the positioning of 6970 is in no-man's land, the free advertizing generated from this "feature" would sell more than enough 6950's to cover caniballized 6970 sales.