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Motherboard | ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 6 |
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Software | Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (Start10 & Fences 3.0 installed) |
It's more about a workable business model more than anything. There are reasons why many many executives from AMD have left over the last few years. No one is asking for anything for free but simply put, myself and many of my friends and the community in general are attracted to AMD for it's fair and value oriented pricing. So far I feel like I am getting a good buy when I buy AMD. The trade off being ( read the tread header ) there is not much in the way of driver updates. IF AMD comes out with expensive pricing on top of poor driver update performance that is just going to force people over to Nvidia. Not everyone obviously but it will cause people to rethink their consumer relationship with AMD.
Except, this "fair and value oriented pricing" is not good business practice. When you eternally sell things for cheap, people expect it. You then didg yourself into even more debt. I think putting out top-notch products and higher pricing will actually bring alot of people over FROM Nvidia, because the PERCEPTION is the products are now competitive and top-notch. Yes, many benchmarks have shown that already for a long time. Most users however, do not check benchmarks. They buy on reputation and PERCEPTION. Perception, sadly, is reality in this world.