According to our sources, Gainward is "extremely unsatisfied" and "unhappy" with the way how AMD allegedly treats them. According to our sources, AMD is "trying to keep its current partners happy and does not allow custom building boards" if you "don't belong to the select few". The sources cited their decision to go with custom-built GeForce GTX275 from day one, and not offering a reference based product. We asked what about ATI Radeon 4890 and 4770 parts, and the answers were surprising and go in the line of ATI not allowing them to release an overclocked or a custom PCB-based product until top tier partners do the same.

I'm not sure why this is news. It isn't new. I have seen comments saying this is exactly what AMD is accusing Intel of doing. I guess those people can't read, but if AMD was not giving these guys access to parts because they were using Nvidia GPUs, then that would be something. They are not. See the difference?

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