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Twirlywoos

Twirlywoos

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Which are good, trusted and unbiased review sites which I can subscribe to?

I like Linus Tech tips on Youtube and HardOCP. I find Tweektown a bit unbiased lately so are there any which you guys can recommend?

Thanks
 
I like TTL quite a bit. I'm still subscribed to him, but I'm going off of him slightly. I like his case reviews, as they are quite picky, and good, but some of the other things he does I have doubts about the validity of some of his stuff. Don't get me wrong, I'll be one of the first people to link to one of his case reviews, because they're top notch, but as I've said, some other stuff, isn't so good.
Some of the other reviewers such as G-Dubs, who is a member of the forum also has done some great stuff on cases/coolers which deserves a mention.


I'm liking TastyPC's stuff that she's doing on fans at the moment. It's relatively new, but seems to be going somewhere, and the fan comparison is something really useful.
Youtube here:http://www.youtube.com/user/TastyPCTV?feature=g-u-u
She also posts up all her reviews in the Overclocking and Cooling forum.

I'm leaning more towards Vortez now a days for their CPU testing. I used to rip into them quite a bit, but I'm starting to think their results are more accurate and more controlled than OC3d's. Again, that's down to personal opinion and I'd look at reviews from both before making a decision.

For benchmark comparison's I use the Anandtech bench part of their site.

Oh, and JohnyGuru for PSU's if I ever need to check a review. But to be honest, I replace my PSU's so infrequently, and always Corsair ones that I basically just have to check it's ok, rather than actually reading 50 reviews...

kd
 
w3bbo said:
I would have to say Vortez by a country mile but then I would say that wouldn't I. ;)
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[TW]Sponge;21801608 said:
I wonder why:)
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Ok, I admit... She is quite attractive. But no, most of it has some solid information. The fog tests are quite interesting in particular....

Relentless81 said:
How do you guys follow these people?
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YouTube subscriptions for tasty and oc3d. Tend to check oc3d once a day for updates, and I only use vortez and johny guru when I want opinions on particular things. So I might go 'ooh I'm looking at getting, or advising someone to get this, let's see what the other reviewers think...'

kd
 
King Damager said:
YouTube subscriptions for tasty and oc3d. Tend to check oc3d once a day for updates, and I only use vortez and johny guru when I want opinions on particular things. So I might go 'ooh I'm looking at getting, or advising someone to get this, let's see what the other reviewers think...'

kd
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You should get subbed to ours mate ;) I look after the channel, we often have some special stuff being showed!
 
As much as I would love her to actually be into PC hardware - you can tell by the way she is presenting it that she has no interest in it whatsoever.

In fact she seems as though she would be more at home just sitting in the passenger seat of a sports car with some rich dude, fixing her hair & saying nothing at all.

Still good to look at though (in fact great to look at). Just don't think she understands what she is actually chatting about - which is slightly annoying.
 
The biggest problem I find is not that review sites are bias in one direction, it's that they're biased towards anyone that sends them gear.

Most reviews are fawning love letters, and you have to know what the various awards and high praise actually mean.

Sadly I find it's only the big sites that are bold enough to knock a product when it sucks, all but the big sites are too afraid to bite the hand that feeds them - understandably.
 
It's hard to take "TastyPC" seriously when she's constantly pushing her chest forward in low cut tops, either you want to be taken seriously for your opinion/knowledge or you want cheap hits from horny nerds, and it's obvious which route she took.

As for review sites, meh, I don't really use them, I'd rather read the opinions of actual users.
 
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