First pictures of 980 ti have been revealed

Cool Yeah, maybe the LTT forums may not be that great of a source, but usually a large community (like this one) will tend to naturally crowd moderate.

A lot of this comes as a skill in being able to read between the lines when reviewing journalism in tech and gaming and being able to sift through the garbage on your own. I suppose it comes with experience, but when you're reading articles, I recommend just not taking the article or writer at face value because they have a website and wrote an article about whatever subject.

For instance, let's take VideoCardz' article from last month about the alleged 980 Ti announcement. There was a topic about it right here on PCMR, as usual, but when I started reading the article, it screamed bullshit in numerous ways.

Here is the article: http://videocardz.com/55419/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-confirmed-to-feature-6gb-memory

The author at Videocardz starts off by talking about how the site previously did not cover rumors of the 980 Ti because nothing was confirmed, and all of the information out there on the web was based on rumor and speculation. So far, so good...then, in the first paragraph, they drop this bomb: "This post however, is based solely on our new information provided by credible source (thanks Jen-Hsun!)."

Uhh...what? They are referring to Jen-Hsun Huang, the CEO of Nvidia. Now, as recently as last week, this article I'm talking about at Videocardz had a link to Mr. Huang's bio over on Nvidia.com in the line where they thank him for the information. This is suspect in a number of ways - first, why would Nvidia choose to reveal the first information about their new hotness on VideoCardz.com, of all places? Why isn't there an interview or some kind, or a press release, or anything to back up what VideoCardz is saying? Videocardz expects their readers to believe that the CEO of Nvidia personally and secretly confirmed the existence and some specs of the 980 Ti to a single website and no other outlets, and even though it has been several weeks since this article, to date no other site or publication has gotten this same confirmation? It's all a bunch of click bait BS.

Then, we move further down into the article where the article states several times things like, "We were able to confirm...", and "We have confirmed..." - again referring to their magical, secret source of the CEO of Nvidia. Again without referencing whether this was done in person, by email, phone call, smoke signal, or by some other form of communication. They have absolutely nothing to stand on - this article, and in fact most of their website, is essentially the "My uncle works at Nintendo" school of journalism, if you even dare to call what they do journalism.

It was infuriating to try and point this stuff out to people on PCMR who were so excited about the 980 Ti being announced and arguing about the merits of 6 GB vs 8 GB of VRAM, that they couldn't stop and consider for themselves whether the information was actually genuine or not. I posted similar arguments back then as to why VideoCardz and this article in particular was garbage, and I kid you not, several members of the PCMR's response was, "Yeah but the CEO confirmed it to them, so you're wrong. YAY 980 Ti 6 GB WOOOO!" I was done.

Another way you can double check information like this for yourself is to do a Google search for related terms from the article you're checking out. In this case, you Google for "Jen-Hsun Huang confirms 980 Ti" you'll get links back to Kdkramastars of all places (click bait nonsense king) and other no-name sites that actually cite VideoCardz as the source for their information. If the CEO of Nvidia was really confirming something as huge as the 980 Ti, the chances are he would do it personally for one site only and then remain tight-lipped about it are astronomically small. If the big outlets and legitimate journalists aren't reporting anything about a story and you can find no clear, citable source for a website's information, you can probably chalk it up to just more bullshit and move on.

I know this was a super long post, but what I'm trying to say here is this: Think for yourself and never trust one site completely about everything. Always read between the lines and do your own research on a subject to confirm beyond a reasonable doubt that the news and data is real before relaying it to other people.

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