Bad Advertising

[Not_Sean]

This piss anyone else off
See the SSD on this site, looks pretty sick with that nice black heat spreader and would look awesome in my system.. 

 

go check it out on the site and its completely different. Now I'm not asking for anything or want them been held to it, couldn't care that much, but does anyone else find this Damn annoying. 

Also post any if you know of them or got a product that wasn't like advertised 

[mikat]

Kind of a bummer yeah, but it's not really bothering me that much

[cyanit]

doesn't some mainboards come with covers for them? 

don't know which board I used as a baseline, but you can view what I thought would be something like a cover (or maybe placeholder...?) here

 

but damn its advertising. They want to sell stuff, and the want you to buy it...

[divito]

I'm not sure I follow; were you thinking the non-photo realistic graphic on the left was going to be what it actually looked like? It's pretty easy to see that the first was a unspecific graphic, and not even close to a render or real photo.

Kind of like seeing this:

 

and expecting the graphics card to look like that.

[Not_Sean]

2 minutes ago, divito said:

I'm not sure I follow; were you thinking the non-photo realistic graphic on the left was going to be what it actually looked like? It's pretty easy to see that the first was a unspecific graphic, and not even close to a render or real photo.

Kind of like seeing this:

 

and expecting the graphics card to look like that.

I get what you are saying but that photo is a horrible example, Its just generic, no markings no branding.. If you say this picture and got something that was just the Board with a sticker on it would you be happy ? at least though they did correct it on their site. My point is the marketing pics used are completely miss leading and thats annoying as hell. 

Also if you are publicly publishing a picture of a item you are selling you can't just post whatever you want, it needs to have some bearing on what the final product is release unless you state so, ie This is a Beta Design. which is not marked anywhere in the advert. 

[divito]

If the picture was more real, I would absolutely agree with you. Something along the lines of "drive may not be exactly as shown," would have to be attached to it. But given the look of it, and the fact that the scale of the drive itself is wrong, I don't share your same outrage; definitely understand it though.

[Not_Sean]

1 minute ago, divito said:

If the picture was more real, I would absolutely agree with you. Something along the lines of "drive may not be exactly as shown," would have to be attached to it. But given the look of it, and the fact that the scale of the drive itself is wrong, I don't share your same outrage; definitely understand it though.

haha not outrage, just a mix of mild annoyance and nothing to do in the office  

 

Was also more annoyed are really like the look of it and wanted one  

[ARikozuM]

16 minutes ago, divito said:

I'm not sure I follow; were you thinking the non-photo realistic graphic on the left was going to be what it actually looked like? It's pretty easy to see that the first was a unspecific graphic, and not even close to a render or real photo.

Kind of like seeing this:

 

and expecting the graphics card to look like that.

Oh SH!T! Is that an RX 480? Nice to see AMD trying to use the Fisher-Price aesthetic.

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Oh SH!T! Is that an RX 480? Nice to see AMD trying to use the Fisher-Price aesthetic.

No it's an RX ShutterStock 480 Co-processor

[Not_Sean]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

No it's an RX ShutterStock 480 Co-processor

Its the RX SS 480CPro

 

single Display port, 1 Molex power. Single slot and zero noise and scales xFire by 110% 
The Future is now boys ! 

[Coaxialgamer]

17 minutes ago, Not_Sean said:

Its the RX SS 480CPro

 

single Display port, 1 Molex power. Single slot and zero noise and scales xFire by 110% 
The Future is now boys ! 

Don't forget that AGP interface

[PCMasterDebater]

1 hour ago, Not_Sean said:

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No this doesn't piss me off.

What is interesting is your poor sentence structure, lack of punctuation, and terrible presentation; clearly indicates you are tickled to death with anger.

 

What heat spreader are you talking about? I'm not seeing it in this horridly presented thread. 

 

#fail

[ZackCodesAI]

2 hours ago, Not_Sean said:

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It's because while advertising, they use the 3D image of the object created in 3Ds Max or so, thus giving it different look and texture. 

They use 3D as they can hence orient in any way and give any lighting, also 3D is created before mass producing, so as to give the board an idea of design.

[Not_Sean]

10 minutes ago, PCMasterDebater said:

No this doesn't piss me off.

What is interesting is your poor sentence structure, lack of punctuation, and terrible presentation; clearly indicates you are tickled to death with anger.

 

What heat spreader are you talking about? I'm not seeing it in this horridly presented thread. 

 

#fail

Do you always go around been a grammar nazi for people who's English is not a first language ? You must be so much fun to have at parties and all your friends must only say the nicest things about you.

[Not_Sean]

15 minutes ago, Zackbare said:

It's because while advertising, they use the 3D image of the object created in 3Ds Max or so, thus giving it different look and texture. 

They use 3D as they can hence orient in any way and give any lighting, also 3D is created before mass producing, so as to give the board an idea of design.

I know how it works , What I mean is the one advertised, Nice clean black heat spreader over the whole side, vs the Sticker at the top bit with the barcodes and such. 

It wouldn't be hard to rendner it the same way, this is a large company we talking about, as mentioned above more upset that it isn't coming out looking like the advert one as I really like the look and feel like I got "Click baited" by the add. 

[ZackCodesAI]

Just now, Not_Sean said:

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I agree with you, but IMO, reproducing the circuit would be difficult thing, as there are like 10-20 prototypes while developing, and let us say, they finalize one, then they'd better mass produce it, rather than again 3D imaging it, it'll be not worth the effort.

 

[mikat]

12 hours ago, cyanit said:

doesn't some mainboards come with covers for them? 

don't know which board I used as a baseline, but you can view what I thought would be something like a cover (or maybe placeholder...?) here

 

but damn its advertising. They want to sell stuff, and the want you to buy it...

Some motherboards do that but it's not always a good thing:

http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2781-msi-m2-heat-shield-increases-temperatures

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

12 hours ago, Not_Sean said:

Also post any if you know of them or got a product that wasn't like advertised 

my phone said it has a pedometer. I learnt after purchase it is not a device for detecting pedos