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NVIDIA's design guide supplement for the platform that does not exist
The first rule about "Tritium" is, you do not talk about "Tritium"

NVIDIA's Bryan Del Rizzo sent me the following email earlier today about some of the stories we've run on the NVIDIA Tritium platform:

Kris, yet another story with gross inaccuracies.
There is no Tritium certification process. There is no Tritium product. It is not a brand name.
Because of your story, we have partners asking us about a certification process that doesn't exist.
Please remove the story or put up a front page story that says there is no certification process and that you were incorrect in stating that one exists.
Anand, great job on starting a news site that so far, can't get its facts straight.

Of course, Del Rizzo may not believe there is a Tritium certification, but NVIDIA's internal design guides certainly disagree with him.  A document containing with the following statement was released to manufacturers earlier this year, with the emphasis ours:

This document outlines the minimum requirements an ODM NVIDIA® C51XEMCP55XE motherboard design must conform to in order to obtain NVIDIA’s Tritium certification. Meeting the requirements guarantees interoperability with other Tritium-certified components and enables utilization of Tritium’s overclockability features, maximizing overall system performance.
NVIDIA has extended its SLI program into memory and motherboards, so our best guess is that the Tritium platform and SLI "platform" are one and the same. We here at DailyTech have no problems delivering the second half of Del Rizzo's wish, but it would seem odd for a company that does not have a Tritium platform to have so much documentation for one.

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Explains a lot
By Ecmaster76 on 5/18/2006 12:40:35 PM , Rating: 5
quote:
Anand, great job on starting a news site that so far, can't get its facts straight.


The employees sound like the fan boys, but with spellcheck.
:p




RE: Explains a lot
By z3R0C00L on 5/18/2006 1:11:54 PM , Rating: 3
nVIDIA employee's are the worst fanboys. I remember how quickly they insulted me and how rudely they interrupted me during a live Question and answer with nVIDIA at bjorn3D.

They're like the evil Empire. But they make good products.


RE: Explains a lot
By Tsuwamono on 5/18/2006 3:59:17 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
They're like the evil Empire. But they make good products.


Mildly good products. I still wouldnt buy nvidia though. I wouldnt consider myself a fanboy but some people consider me an ATI fanboy. I tend to look more at facts. its not like i completely rule out nvidia or ATI without reading every review on the web and actually talking to credible friends who own the cards themselves. sorry for the rant. its true though Nvidia has the worst fanboys in my opinion.

Go on gamespot and just go to any topic and say you have an ATI card and i guarentee you will have atleast 10 replys of hissying 14 year old fanboys declaring nvidia the true victor dispite all benchmarks lol.


RE: Explains a lot
By bob661 on 5/18/2006 6:27:38 PM , Rating: 3
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declaring nvidia the true victor dispite all benchmarks lol.
Which benchmarks are you referring to? The one's I've seen indicate that there's really no difference between ATI and Nvidia and buying either is a matter of choice with no clear victor. And, NO, 5 fps doesn't NOT make a winner. Peruse the following benchmarks at your leisure.
http://tinyurl.com/krdjn


RE: Explains a lot
By Zoomer on 5/19/2006 7:36:21 AM , Rating: 2
Exactly, they should claim its similar not the "true victor".


RE: Explains a lot
By lethalchronic on 5/19/2006 12:10:52 PM , Rating: 2
I still like SLI over Crossfire as a dual video card solution though. Benchmarks aside Crossfire needs a little more time.


RE: Explains a lot
By juanflaiter on 5/18/2006 10:18:00 PM , Rating: 2
If you are not a fan of your job, you shouldnt work in it. BDR is just doing his job ;)


IT DOES EXIST
By Gigahertz19 on 5/18/2006 12:44:54 PM , Rating: 3
How can he say it doesn't exist? Right here proves it. Look at the ASUS nForce 590 M32NSLI document scan somebody made.


http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=68655

Under Chipset it says "NVIDIA Tritium Technology certified"..maybe the document is a fake then?




RE: IT DOES EXIST
By DigitalFreak on 5/18/2006 12:51:42 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah, forward him this and see what he says. What a prick. Dude doesn't even know what his own company is doing...


RE: IT DOES EXIST
By DigitalFreak on 5/18/2006 12:54:25 PM , Rating: 4
Oh wait, I bet DailyTech messed up the spelling. Maybe it's supposed to be Tittyum?


RE: IT DOES EXIST
By ProviaFan on 5/18/2006 1:20:02 PM , Rating: 2
Maybe they've "enhanced" one of their old "Dawn" demos or something similar to use in supported configurations as the splash screen while the BIOS boots. ;)


RE: IT DOES EXIST
By bob661 on 5/18/2006 6:28:52 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
Oh wait, I bet DailyTech messed up the spelling. Maybe it's supposed to be Tittyum?
ROFL!!!


RE: IT DOES EXIST
By Master Kenobi (blog) on 5/18/2006 1:20:04 PM , Rating: 2
Thats a legit spec sheet. Just wait and see.


RE: IT DOES EXIST
By secretanchitman on 5/18/2006 5:57:08 PM , Rating: 2
gigahertz19 has just royally screwed del rizzo. what an idiot. he should be fired.

congrats to you man.


What a jerk
By Oderus on 5/18/2006 2:39:11 PM , Rating: 1
I can't believe that email he sent you. It's utter bullshit. Noticed how I spelled it's with a ' unlike Bryan the tool from Nvidiot. Thank god I don't own any Nvidia products. Keep up the awesome work Anand/Kris. Don't let jerks like this keep you down!




RE: What a jerk
By tedrodai on 5/18/2006 2:51:07 PM , Rating: 2
Well, although I agree with your outlook on Bryan's method of handling the situation, he did use "its" correctly--you use the apostrophe when condensing "it is" but not when showing possession.


RE: What a jerk
By Scabies on 5/18/2006 3:27:15 PM , Rating: 2
"oooohh *music*
if it's 'its' possesive, it's only 'i-t-s'
but if it's supposed to be a contraction, it's 'i-t-apostrophe-s'
scalawag"
~Strong Bad


RE: What a jerk
By dice1111 on 5/18/2006 3:28:35 PM , Rating: 2
Why is everyone on this site so stuck up with punctuation and spelling?

It's a quick news site and a forum! These silly rants get everyone off topic and it's completely unnecessary.

Everyone makes mistakes. Deal with it!

*Braces for flames*


RE: What a jerk
By dice1111 on 5/18/2006 3:31:19 PM , Rating: 2
OH, and I can’t wait for my Tritium certified AM2 mobo!

*grrr, no edit function*


RE: What a jerk
By tedrodai on 5/18/2006 3:50:53 PM , Rating: 2
flame flame flame flame flame. lol j/k
But calm down a little man. I could care less about a little mispelling, because like you said, "everyone makes mistakes." That was my way of (very) mildly putting the guy in his place for making a childish personal attack like that. If you feel that strongly about it, just get a friend and vote the posts off the forum.


RE: What a jerk
By Oderus on 5/19/2006 4:42:22 PM , Rating: 2
I just noticed how bad my english can be. Thanks for the correction.


Can't believe what I just read
By sinsubtitulos on 5/19/2006 12:48:52 AM , Rating: 2
Hmmm, I really can't believe that a company as big as Nvidia can have PR person that handles these types of issues in such an aggresive -and at the same time, childish- way. One may not be happy that info on a new product is leaked but resolve it the way BR did? Does he really know what it means to work in PR for a company? And behaving in such a way with one most respected journalists in the pc world? Simply idiotic. Someone with a couple more neurons would probably fire (or at least beat severely :P) a person who has the balls to say stuff like that. But now really what worries me is not so much this issue, but what has happened behind the scenes between PR people at companies like Nvidia and smaller web sites. If a guy like BR has the balls to send an email with a pesonal message directly to Anand, I can only imagine the "special treatment" smaller sites get.

Great reaponse from DT, I think you did the right thing, keep up the good work! Please don't let people like BR push people and/or sites with this type of behavior.