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PC Hardware Reviewers in 2024 (Die Shrink Telegrams) (Patreon)

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2024-01-25 22:33:36
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Behind the scenes - one subject that's emerged repeatedly amongst Tom, Dan, and the sources we speak with over the past week has been that there seems to be a disconnect between how many large Hardware Reviewers portray products, and the reality of what PC Gamers actually want lately.  Some examples are as follows:

  • The RTX 4070 SUPER gets positive reviews...and nobody buys it...
  • Some reviewers claimed the "7900 XTX kinda made the 4080 look good", and yet the 7900 XTX is selling as well as midrange cards while the 4080 languishes.
  • Alder / Raptor Lake i5s were labeled as "good value" by many reviewers due to having extra E-Cores, and yet recent i5s seem to be selling worse than the more expensive 5800X3D!
  • Most reviewers continually brought up the last-gen RX 6700 XT in RX 7600 XT reviews...yet ignored the last-gen RTX 3060 12GB...which is currently the Low End sales champion...

So...what's going on here?  How come so many reviews seem to avoid making a ballsy conclusion?  How come they are often entirely ignorant of what people are looking for? ...and is there a new crop of commentators popping up lately to fill the void?  What do YOU look for in a PC Hardware Review?

Write in below with your questions, comments, and thoughts on these subjects!  Unfortunately, you only have ~4 hours from now to submit, so do NOT hesitate.  Just make sure your submission is respectful, uses good grammar, and is as concise as possible!


https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computer-CPU-Processors/zgbs/pc/229189

https://twitter.com/Some1sm/status/1749917204479418854

https://twitter.com/Some1sm/status/1749917204479418854

https://youtu.be/Oz7G2RjIjj4

https://www.techspot.com/review/1198-amd-radeon-rx-480/page3.html

https://www.techspot.com/review/2794-amd-radeon-7600-xt/

Comments

QuickJumper

Hi Tom and Dan I think that reviewers might be bit disconnected from the overall consumer needs. What AMD, Nvidia and other big companies do is they research the market and try to gauge which features and which price is going to be preferable by customers. So while reviewers might think that in based on the objective data their subjective opinion is well rounded it's actually the other way around - aggregation and analysis of many subjective opinions of real customers might lead to far better estimate of the needs and whishes of people. One thing I also noticed is that the reviewers tend to thing companies are consumer friendly or companies are greedy. This is rarely the case. It might be the perception but it's rarely simple just like that. Companies have more people and are lot of times smarter than reviewers and reviewers tend to forget that.

InsanitysReign

Hi guys! I know I'm late to this one, but I'd like to throw in my two cents here. Personally speaking, I think that most reviewers are too used to the higher-end hardware. They know what THEY want, and the commentators that are in their orbit, but not necessarily what the average Joe wants. As for the second part, I'm asking myself the following for GPUs, "Is this hardware stuff I feel comfortable having for 2-4 years? Will this hardware last that long before it breaks down? What's the cost-performance metrics? How well does it cool? (Don't want to spend an extra $50-$100 to upgrade that, too.) Will I make use of the features that they show? What's the warranty looking like?" for CPUs, "Why do I need this upgrade? What extra stuff will I be doing with this? Power Draw and Cooling? L3 Cache? (I play games that require lots of it to do big projects, like Factorio.) How stable is it?" for Storage, "What's the connection? $/gigabyte?"