awards high scores to memory based on these chips. I thought as overclockers and enthusiast, we paid top dollar for performance. We ran our components out of specification to gain performance. So what is the point of single sided MFR memory then? It’s expensive and doesn’t perform at all
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Super Pi 32M to evaluate a graphics card. The only PSU reviews worth trusting are from Johnny Guru and Techpowerup.
That’s right. (Careful –Ed!) You know I’m telling it just like you see it. Fatal1ty from Abit, Formula from ASUS, now Killer from GIGABYTE. Really? Is there not an ounce of shame? The boards are great, maybe even brilliant, but then why copy the names when there are so many out there?
8. GOLD DOES NOT BELONG ON A MOTHERBOARD!
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9. THERE ARE TOO MANY WORLD RECORDS!
A ADVERTS ARE APPALLING!
These are awful and outright sexist most of the time. Sure enough h has ha one where a woman gives birth to a motherboard. board Tha That one is beyond redemption ede p and disgusting, but we expect better out off . Just in case the names are omitted, you know exactly what I’m talking about. We’ve all seen their adverts, including the one with Batman playing an FPS with a steering wheel.
5. THE ENTIRE ALL IN ONE LIQUID COOLING MARKET IS THE SAME! Come on, how many of these units are made by Asetek? How different could they be? For the most part they are the same and I’ve suspected many reviews to be falsified to show differences that are not there. Either that or genuinely sloppy testing methods. Whatever the case, these coolers are the same for any one CPU. I would like to see one such cooler that allows a higher OC than another one on any CPU.
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HAS H ANNOYING BIOS MOUSE LAG!
Yeah we all know who this is. Good boards, stupid BIOS mouse lag. Come on people if, Jetway can do it. There’s no reason you can’t. No need for fancy graphics, just a mouse cursor that doesn’t move like Velcro on David HasselHoff’s chest!
7. MOST PSU REVIEWS ARE OF NO USE! There’s no need to say much about this. Without the testing equipment needed you are not testing anything. Plugging a multi meter into a 4-pin connector on the PSU while 3DMark runs won’t do. It’s like running
Seriously, when did this become a great idea? It looked sad when first done by and a it looks even more so when n do d it. Stop with the gold already, it’s immature and looks ridiculous.
Really? How can there be so many world records? Not too long ago I saw two press releases on a website for the same record. From two different vendors! One claiming the record was theirs because their graphics card was used. The other claiming the world record because their motherboard was used. How can they both be responsible for the record at the same time? Why are there so many records? Every CPU, memory module, PSU, GPU and whatever else has a record. Let’s wait until keyboards and mice start having records. It’s only a matter of time
10. THE OVERCLOCKING COMMUNITY NEEDS NEW BLOOD! It’s been the same people year after year. With each GPU and CPU family. The same people repeatedly. Overclocking has started to get boring for most people and not attractive. That’s why this happened. The Golden days that we speak off are gone; we must move forward and encourage people to overclock. That means asking gamers and the like to join. At some point most of us were gamers, so why do we distance ourselves so much from them? Lots can be done and I know I have people who agree within this magazine about getting rid of old benchmarks. I would say even more need to go. If I could, I would keep Cinebench, Wprime, 3DMark 11 and 13 and that’s it. Maybe Catzilla, but it seems those guys can’t get organized. (If you didn’t know V1.0 is out already – Ed!). Maybe even XTU if I could see something instead of just waiting, watching a black XTU screen. So there you have it. This is what, I - Iron-Synapse would like to share this issue. Depending on if I am fired or not I’ll be back next issue. (That remains to be seen –Ed!)
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