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ritten in my least inspired state
I plead with you fellow reader,
do not by discouraged for
there may be no methodology
to how I approach this but
there certainly is a point. Some changes
have taken place within the magazine, while
transparent to you, the gravity of these
changes may not be understated.
With an ever changing mission statement
here, for the first time I am driven to
provide a sufficiently better reading
experience than we have in previous issues.
Part of that is detailing true, honest and
unfiltered thoughts on what it is we feel
about products, ideas and the state of the
overclocking and the hardware ecosystem
as a whole.
It needs no stating, but just in case
anybody had it we, or rather I, was unaware
of the plight or more aptly the future of the
component business as it relates to the end
user. I shall state it explicitly. Overclockers
sell hardware. They sell hardware in ways
no competitive gamer could. It is not to
say that I have no respect for the immense
dedication and talent required in reaching
the echelons of gaming stardom, no – it’s
simply that a competitor destined for
greatness playing on an AMD machine or a
SNB-E machine has a future determined not
by the hardware but every other facet of the
domain.
To that end I would argue that hardware
vendors, particularly of the graphics card
business should divorce themselves from
previous practices that in the past were
beneficial but presently serve little to no
purpose. Let’s be honest with ourselves,
a GTX 680 at 1,110Mhz has the same
performance as any other GTX 680 at the
same frequency. There’s nothing to be said
about such a graphics card and it would be
a complete and utter waste of time to even
suggest there is something valuable to be
taken away from such a product profile let
alone a review.
So I would think vendors need
differentiate themselves from the
competition in more meaningful ways and
as a result, their components will in turn
deserve purchase and editorial not only
“It’s a losing battle and one
that is increasingly more
ridiculous as manufactures
are funneled into uniformity
by the various IP vendors.”
in this publication but in many others. The
problem we faced with scoring systems is
not with the values assigned to products,
but rather the patent futility of attempting to
articulate differences between components
that are otherwise identical.
It’s a losing battle and one that
is increasingly more ridiculous as
manufactures are funneled into uniformity
by the various IP vendors.
We will not stop reviewing hardware
even with the products that don’t stand
out, however we will not be concerned
form here on in with components that do
nothing other than offer what everybody
else can offer, more directly reference
design components. More so, we shall not
be moved by a 5% overclock on any part,
as that doesn’t translate into anything
meaningful for competitive, casual and
seasoned overclockers (or gamers for that
matter). As such, for the sake of sincerity,
honesty and most importantly transparency
with you our readers and the vendors, we
would like to charge ourselves with more
personal, unobstructed and if you will, more
sincere reviews and editorial content.
It may seem counter-productive but at
the end of it all, the reason you read this
magazine is for an, open and unbiased
opinion. It’s not a technical collation of
papers, but a magazine which is largely
opinion based on technical merit. With that
said, welcome to Issue 21 of TheOverclocker
Magazine, enjoy it and we will see you next
time around. MOA Baby!
[ Neo Sibeko - Editor]
Issue 21 | 2012 The OverClocker 3