From what I read online (sour grapes?) everyone who received an advanced 5900 ultra card was hand picked by NVIDIA, flown to Cannes France for the release, and then returned home with the card and a fully functional version of Doom3. These are pretty big "perks" for a hardware website reviewer, and I suspect that they have a pretty big effect on one's willingness to cry foul play shortly afterwards. This is all hearsay of course and may be completely untrue.
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