CUDA means nothing to gamers, and physX only has ~15 titles that even support it (and less than 5 big name titles). it really is irrelevant to gamers.
Hey, PhysX is used in more big name titles then he uses in his reviews...
Anyway, I've said it is pretty irrelevent already, but not totally as he wants to say. It is in games, current games use it, so just mention it. It isn't that hard to add the line in at the end of the features page, is it? He writes a whole paragraphs about eyefinity, on graphics cards that aren't powerful enough to use it, but flat out refuses to even mention PhysX and CUDA? That is just hypocritical bullshit.
Shit..... calm down to a frenzy..... if you read the Op piece, NVidia came back to them AFTER they did the review to complain that they should have mentioned the CUDA/Physx stuff, I would have thought that if a card company wanted reviewers to say or review certain things or make "specific" comment then they should make that clear from the offset?
The point is here, I am not defending or attacking either side.... why? because at the end of the day, this is "3rd party" information, irrespective of your comments regarding the quality of their reviews, I have found that for both ATi and NVidia reviews, they largly tend to be un-biased, that for me in itself puts them in the top 20% of reviewing sites.
I cannot disagree with your comments about the GTX260 review, however in contrast, if you look at the GTX295 review (of course I am not suggesting you were in any way selective in your example
), you will see a couple of synthetic benchmarks in there and 5 games popular at the time of release, the 295 was compared with about 15 other Gfx cards but I do take note of your comments, as I said, the honesty of a particular review is my most important feature, little point of selected 25 competative cards tested in 30 games if you only select 2 resolutions and detail levels to show off the strengths of a product...... I am sure you as well as me could name a couple of sites at least like that
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Zotac-GeForce-GTX-295-Video-Card-Review/693/8
You know me well enough to know that I have a history of owning both ATi and Nvidia cards, so I would be grateful if you don't go into your "NVidia defensive mode" with me, you know I am no fanboi.
It isn't that I'm in nVidia defensive mode, if he was talking about ATi doing it my comments would be the same. He is an idiotic jackass that thinks he's hot shit, and he really sucks at what he does.
Even the best of his reviews, yes I picked a few of the more recent really shittacular ones, was pretty poor.
Yes, nVidia came back after he wrote ther review, a review with a whole 1 game banchmark at 1 resolution and 1 synthetic benchmark at 1 resolution, and asked for him to mention PhysX and CUDA, and they didn't even provide the sample. And what did he do.? He put on his hot shit reviewer pants and told nvidia to go fuck themselves. Yeah, what did he really expect?
And his responsces were complete BS, which probably pissed nVidia off even more.
PhysX and CUDA isn't relevent: Ok, I can sort of buy that,
if you didn't put an entire paragraph in your ATi reviews about eyefinity, which is just as irrelevent to the average user. On top of that, when you are expecting support from a company, don't insult them by telling them their techology is useless. You don't bite the hand that feeds.
We don't go back and re-write reviews: Ok, that is total bullshit. How is slipping in one sentence re-writing the review? Watch, "This card also supports CUDA, nVidia's GPGPU technology, and PhysX, nVidia's propriatary physics engine." Bam, done. I'll even give him permission to copy and past that into his review. Do that, problem solved, nVidia gives you free shit again. See, no need for a big whiney blog post about how nVidia doesn't want to give a crappy reviewer more free samples.
Please do not take this hostility as me being hostile towards you. I have a huge respect for you Tatty. However, hypocritical crap like this really gets under my skin, and it is made even worse when people act like they are huge hot shots, and they aren't. Those two things are my biggest pet peeves, put them together and it pisses me off to no end. My hostility is for him, not you.
no its not. they asked for samples, got refused... and now that they did an independent review which DIDNT praise every feature of the cards, nvidia has shunned them.
you cant expect people to give you bonus points if you refuse to even send them samples.
The thing is nVidia didn't ask him to praise anything, they just asked him to mention it. Slip a little blurb in saying the cards support it. No opinion necessary. Hell, he probably could have even followed it up with a sentence saying he doesn't find either technology particularly relevent to the average users if he really wanted to.
I think the reverse situation is more accurate, when you're putting your hand out trying to get something for free, don't expect to get much when you refuse to even make an accurate feature list.
If I was running a graphics card company, I'd cut them off because their reviews suck balls anyway, no wonder nVidia doesn't want to give them free shit.
its no wonder they hate you (not that i think you're in the wrong 
