chaos, not my review however I will comment on a few things and let stuart reply to the rest. (some of your posting I dont even understand to be honest).
Firstly,
i am in no way interested in other reviews on the subject, there isnt a good crossfire review up on the net right now, and the fact we were reporting issues no one else did (confirmed by AMD), which
AMD verified due to our thorough testing speaks volumes. Yes AMD found problems due entirely to DH testing. This alone makes you wonder what exactly reviewers do when they "test" these cards to get them published in time for NDA, obviously to get hits.
I made the call to hold publication of the review because we ran into so many nagging problems, even at the expense of big hits on launch day. We ending up working with AMD HQ and the driver development team and finding out just what was going on. Full credit to AMD for opening their doors to us as well.
Your Half life system might be perfect for you, however again with our testing AMD successfully reproduced the problem and opened a report
AMD Customer Care. The fact you don't have a problem means really very little in the grand scheme of things and this is why it is a very hard job delivering a great review, you need to go one step further than merely just "playing" a few games to get accurate results.
This is exactly why our GFX reviews get such high hits on the net, people wait for them to see the problems/findings we are reporting, because quite frankly very often no other site is
capable of finding them. It just shows how thorough Stuart is, and we have no agenda to "kiss ass" with companies either which is abundantly clear with this review. All packages on test today have issues and we made sure everyone knows it.
Will it cause problems for us in the future? I don't care, because everything we published is exactly how we found it. Not how any company
would like us to find it.