So basically what we have here is a very strange behavior indeed, a group of people willingly determined to look the other way on any out of line behavior from AMD. Just because they are the underdog. A card that is out of spec so what? It's only damaging when OC'ed! as if this is suddenly a good thing, instead of talking about how good a card overclocks, now we talk about how it's the user's fault if he damages his hardware! because hey, It's AMD, they need our support, right?
I guess they will forgive driver problems or lack of support or whatever new screwup further down the line. Because hey, they have no resources, we need to support them. By that logic we should have video cards from VIA and S3 as well, doesn't matter if they produce crappy hardware, we will support them regardless!
Well evolution and survival doesn't work that way. Screw ups and half assed architectures are not going to carry your company forward. It hasn't worked in the past with AMD CPUs and it's not going to work now with GPUs. If people are afraid prices will go up if AMD goes under, then guess what, prices will still go up, even with AMD around. Only difference is AMD will be producing more low quality stuff until they become completely irrelevant, then new competitors will take their place. And that's Evolution for you. That's how technology works, and that's how the world advances, not the other way around.
