Not happy with the Anandtech reviews

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sparker366

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I look at a lot of reviews on the main site and see them using the dang 1000$ X6800 cpu alot of the time. How does that help folks that can't afford that much of a processor. I feel that you should be using processors that are more attainable by the little guy. IE E6600 or E6750 or even an E6550.

Use real world systems to give real world results. I don't say not to use the X6800 to show extreme results but give folks real world results too stuff that the little guy can afford.

Your latest review of the Thermalright Ultima-90 you use a X6800 to test it on. Well that maybe all fair and well but how does that help folks with the E6600 or the E6750 or the E6550 you get my drift. Do real world test with stuff the average joe can go out and buy. I don't care how low that hsf can get the x6800. What I care about is how low it can get my E6600 overclocked to 3.0ghz.
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

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Jul 15, 2003
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WOW!
Every single one of this guys problems can be solved by actually READING anandtech instead of complaining about it.

All those things he needs are in articles already posted or here in the forums.
 
Aikouka

Aikouka

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Originally posted by: tasmanian
Because for the tests to show accurate results they have to use high end equipment.
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I believe it also depends on what they have at their disposal; however, you're right that in some tests, you try to use the fastest parts to avoid them being a bottleneck for the part you're trying to benchmark. Also, it comes with using the same parts for all tests, if they did not use the same processor in all tests for heatsinks, they'd have to redo all 20+ heatsinks with the new processor just to give a fair and accurate judgment. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't enjoy attaching 20+ heatsinks to a processor.. some heatsinks can be a royal pain on certain motherboards :p.
 
n7

n7

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It wouldn't matter much which C2D they were using.

Temps & thermal output on a C2D, whether it's an E6550 or X6800, will be similar. You do realize that the results [in terms of best to worst] would be very similar with any dual core out there, right, even AMD's...

So sorry, but this complaint thread fails.
 
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Exterous

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Yeah - its something new they've added to try and get more people to join ATOT
 
AgaBoogaBoo

AgaBoogaBoo

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For a proper comparison of something like video cards, you should make sure that the CPU isn't the bottleneck, right? Otherwise, in some games, you'll notice similar performance between 2 different cards.
 
alkemyst

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: sparker366
I feel that you should be using processors that are more attainable by the little guy.
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Unfortunately that is held by a lot of those little guys, it's the people with cash that buy though.

There is plenty of low-mid end stuff on AT...esp if you look at reviews 6months and older.
 
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Skacer

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I've had some issues reading the current AT reviews. Had difficulty comparing the 7800GT to the 8800 series because theres been so many iterations in between even though that is only 1 generation gap. I found the Tom's Hardware benchmark database more useful for this. Which is weird because back in the day Tom's Hardware was basically useless.
 
KK

KK

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Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Originally posted by: orakle
People read the main site?
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Where is this mythical "main site" you talk about?
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I'm sure if they interviewed porn stars on the main page, it'd quadruple their readership.
 
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