Yeah I said it!
1. I get it, LEDs of various colours are
in fashion. In fact knowing how you
operate I suspect there may be some
suppliers over in the East that has
LED’s for cheap. That’s why you have
them on everything. Like chrome on
cars in around 2002~2004. I’m okay
with it, but I think sometimes you go
overboard. The 80s are gone. Let
them go.
2. If you’re going to call something
ambidextrous then it best be
symmetrical. If the sides are different,
with a different button layout, then
that isn’t ambidextrous. I’m talking to
you ******
3. This very magazine has been guilty
of the following point as well, but to
reviewers. Seriously, don’t have an
overclocking section of the review
where you just change the CPU
multiplier and apply voltage. That is
pathetic. Every motherboard can do
that and that lemon you call a CPU
is not going to do worse or better
regardless of which unfortunate
motherboard you use it on.
4. While we’re at it, to all offending
media. Don’t act like motherboards
all work as they should. Some are
broken when released and remain
so for months if not years on end.
Rather say nothing than outright lie
about it. You have made awards and
scoring systems meaningless. You
do a disservice to both end users,
vendors and us media as a whole. This
goes to DRAM reviews as well. You’re
not keeping a secret from anybody.
We know that DRAM performance
has absolutely no impact on game
performance. From 2133MHz all the
way to 3,666MHz. For some synthetic
tests it makes a difference so focus on
that. Moreover, a memory kit review
with no overclocking is not a memory
kit review. Exactly what are you
reviewing, the heat spreaders?
5. If you can’t review a PSU, don’t
review a PSU. That is very technical
and requires plenty of hardware
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which costs much more than many
reviewers are capable of purchasing
or have access to. Running 4-way SLI
with an overclock is not a PSU review.
So don’t do it.
6. To the power-board users out there
it’s all good. Do your thing, there’s a
handful of you which have the skill,
knowhow and gonads to do that.
Celebrate that and pimp it, but do tell
your sponsors that they can’t use that
as a representation of how well their
product is. It’s a reference card with a
power-board. I understand this was
only for a short period and is likely to
never happen again, but it was jarring
to see vendor claims based off your
work, claiming top scores via a
power-board.
7. To the vendors who are obsessed
with gaming. Do us all a favour
mmkay. Just as with overclocking.
We have been gaming prior to your
assistance. So don’t sell me your
perception of gaming in any shape way
or form. Sticking the word “Gaming”
on a product, does not make it any
more or less special. In fact I want to
get into this a little more.
- I understand LOL, DOTA2 and CS: GO
are big, but let me tell you something.
I frankly do not give a damn. The
numbers for those three games
are phenomenal and they generate
billions of dollars for sure. Guess
what though. I still don’t give a damn,
so stop selling me your wears based
on how much better it makes me in
games I don’t play.
- Moreover, all three of those games
will work on any computer, or graphics
card from as far back as 8 years ago.
Where’s the sense in selling somebody
a $400 motherboard, a
$650 GPU with an $800 monitor under
the pretence of delivering a better CS:
GO experience? The games will just
about play on a calculator at this point
but you keep trying to entice me to buy
a $5,000 notebook via the argument
of a better CS: GO experience. How
exactly would that be? The games
work on an 8600M, seriously.
- I’d also like to add that there’s more
to games and gamers than these
three titles. Gamers are a diverse
demographic and not all are 16 years
old for instance. There are those
who play GTA V, The Witcher 3, Metro
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