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What's behind Origin PC's decision to so publicly dump AMD video cards? |
October 05, 2013
One week after AMD took the wraps off its next-gen R7- and R9-series Radeon GPUs, and one day after the first wave of Radeon R9 290X graphics cards hit online retailer Newegg, Kevin Wasielewski, CEO of the boutique PC builder Origin PC, informed some in the media (including PCWorld) that his company will no longer sell machines with AMD graphics cards inside.
Given the timing, you have to wonder about Origin’s motivations. Indeed, it’s especially odd that a PC manufacturer would go out of its way to tell the press that it’s dropping support for a specific component manufacturer. This is not the kind of move that usually warrants a communication to journalists.
Here’s an excerpt from Wasielewski’s statement, which bore the subject line of “Origin PC is going green!”
”This decision was based on a combination of many factors including customer experiences, GPU performance/drivers/stability, and requests from our support staff. Based on our 15+ years of experience building and selling award winning high-performance PCs, we strongly feel the best PC gaming experience is on Nvidia GPUs.”
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2052184/whats-behind-origin-pcs-decision-to-so-publicly-dump-amd-video-cards-.html#tk.rss_all
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