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Aristocrates reacted to LinusTech in deceptive reviews and shoddy advertisement practices being cracked down on in youtube re Machinima/xbox 1
A lot of assumptions being made here.
We don't take money to do reviews. We never have.
We take money to do advertisements, which are never labeled as reviews.
NVIDIA provided the graphics cards (and Cooler Master sent cases and coolers, ASUS sent motherboards, Intel sent CPUs, Kingston sent SSDs and RAM, Swiftech sent water cooling gear) for our editing workstations for product placement in the whole room water cooling series of videos we produced featuring this hardware extensively.
In the grand scheme of things, $6000 of graphics cards (don't imagine that's their BOM cost on them either) is a great deal for 1-2M impressions on a series of videos about using them.. but those videos were NOT a review. They were about a clearly sponsored (we said it was more than once) outrageous project.
As for sending "keeper" vs "loaner" units of hardware, yeah for many products we just don't do loaners anymore, but more than anything else this is to do with me not feeling like it's worth my time to play email tag for shipping labels and spend an hour driving to FedEX and filling out stupid international bill of landing and commercial invoice nonsense over like a $100 item that costs more to send back than to just not bother with anyway.
That and quite frankly even a negative review (for some reason) often generates a lot of sales for the manufacturer.. so as far as I'm concerned they can eat the cost of the item and I'll do whatever I want with it when we're done reviewing it - whether that's continuing to use it personally (Pebble Steel and iPhone 6 come to mind) - or re-visiting it only when we need to re-do our comparative numbers (here's a lesson on why this is necessary and we can't just re-use old numbers)
And on the subject of the Pebble and iPhone 6 - these are both items that were NOT provided by the manufacturer. One was purchased for my own use and the other was provided by a separate sponsor who makes skins for phones (dBrand), but I didn't necessarily mention this at the time because who cares? It doesn't colour my impressions of the device.
Here's an item I wasn't allowed to keep and won one of the two editor's choice awards I've ever given out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1uj6wQTu58
Here's an item was allowed to keep that I ripped apart saying it was worse across the board than the two similar products from other manufacturers that I compared it against: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O1aCNrjV64
Here's an item I was allowed to keep that I basically ripped apart on camera and sent it back anyway because it had so little value to me I didn't even want to give it to a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3AgcltUM9s
And I could do this all day..
You may notice that most of the items we review we are fairly positive about. There is a reason for this, and it has nothing to do with being paid to review it.
I don't generally bother to review stuff that I already know is stupid junk.
The bottom line is this. You can either trust me or not trust me. Ultimately that's your deal. My job is to do what I do, and the people who recognize it for what it is - my opinion being given to you - will follow, and the others can go find someone who maybe they think "hasn't sold out" but might just "happen to agree with them" to listen to. Enjoy.
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Aristocrates got a reaction from SapphireSmith9 in Bitfenix Prodigy M - Where to Buy
The images are all broken
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Aristocrates got a reaction from Ceatra in Portuguese (and portuguese-brazilian) talk
Mariza? Hold on one moment...
All right, that feels better. Welcome
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Aristocrates got a reaction from JoaoPRSousa in Portuguese (and portuguese-brazilian) talk
Mariza? Hold on one moment...
All right, that feels better. Welcome
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Aristocrates reacted to Nyxathid in Portuguese (and portuguese-brazilian) talk
Hm okay assim mando ver as graficas pelo o Amazon e compro o resto na pcdiga ou assim Obrigado
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Aristocrates reacted to TwistedDictator in NASA's Greased Lightning drone hovers like a helicopter, flies like a plane
So they basically have a drone that can switch between "helicopter and airplane modes, giving the aircraft the maneuverability and vertical take-off capabilities of a chopper, as well as the speed and endurance of a plane." I dont like drones as the US wont be using it for the right reason in the future but that is for another chapter lol
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Aristocrates reacted to JoaoPRSousa in Fluffy
*cough* Only *cough*
Oh... Are the drivers up to date?
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Aristocrates reacted to JoaoPRSousa in Fluffy
580? Noice!
Are you going to do benchmarks on that thing? OCs? Huehuehue
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Aristocrates reacted to dannyule in Fluffy
Hey man,
Built is coming along really nice. No GPU at the moment for the machine though?
I can't get my head over the upside down motherboard, it looks strange to me.
I feel like I should share my update prodigy M update with you as the heatsink is lol and takes up so much space. It's a NH-D15 (I'll put it as a link rather than an image dump so it doesn't take up lots of space on the page).
http://i.imgur.com/v0qnXCF.jpg
Anyway really nice build, looking forward to a GPU being thrown in there next to the h100i, haven't seen it yet been done.
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Aristocrates reacted to ShadowCaptain in I need a wifi add-in card, any suggestions?
could get a powerline kit
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Aristocrates reacted to FruitBasketSilex in Can I game on external TV/monitor and still use my PC ?
Tetris.
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Aristocrates got a reaction from blackadder in Help with Boinc and Folding@Home
Go here for instructions
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Aristocrates reacted to tobben in Help with Boinc and Folding@Home
Pretty much this.
But to make it seem less convoluted and abit more straight forward.
It basically boils down to. Install the client, grab a passkey from here:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/getpasskey.py
Go into the advanced client to the left corner(configure > identity). Enter
a name, enter our team number: 223518, enter the passkey, Voila.
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Aristocrates got a reaction from tobben in Help with Boinc and Folding@Home
Go here for instructions
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Aristocrates reacted to jamesfindlay3 in memory combatibility
Thank you very much I will you have been great help!
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Aristocrates reacted to Volbet in Best wireless headset?
How long have you had the HyperX Cloud headset? It's not uncommon that a headset hurt a bit in the beginning, and then gets more comfortable as you wear it.
As for a headset, I can't really recommend any wireless headsets. All the ones that I have played around with have had problems with either the headphones or the microphone.
I can recommend the wireless Sennheiser offerings, but they don't have a mic. If you can find the RS180 on sale you might be able to get it for under 200€, but the RS170 is also a good option.
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Aristocrates got a reaction from JoaoPRSousa in Fluffy
Ok, but now you know - and, if it is of any help, I heartily recommend this monitor
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Aristocrates reacted to JoaoPRSousa in Fluffy
@Aristocrates dont worry m8
I still dont have money for a new monitor, neither the permission to buy one :lol:
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Aristocrates got a reaction from JoaoPRSousa in Fluffy
Do NOT get it from Worten!! I saw it there for 300€, when it costs only 200 at Fnac; I got it for ~184 at www.chiptec.net
Here is my first ever POST ^^
Some progress pictures and cable management:
Pay no attention to the slightly visible set of pliers that I forgot on the bottom
Turns out I have no screws that'll fit these Corsair fans, so twist ties it is
Had to remove the drive grille from the side panel to make cable routing possible
What my bed turned into
My aunt brought me supper close to midnight - I went without eating because I was building Fluffy
Chocolate cake to celebrate while Windows installs
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Aristocrates reacted to JoaoPRSousa in Fluffy
Kitty ^~^
Noice! I wantz le pics!
Also, I saw of those monitors on Worten. It was the last unit. Now I want one so bad ugghhhh.
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Aristocrates got a reaction from JoaoPRSousa in Fluffy
Two shinies! (and one fluffy =^.^= )
So, yay, progress!
I've updated the first post to reflect this
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Aristocrates got a reaction from JoaoPRSousa in Fluffy
Here you go - had to stand on the bed to get everything in focus
Pay no attention to the roll of paper towels on a string and the full basket - I get very fluish in cold weather
The craptop only supports one external display at a time, even though it has three different display outputs (grumble grumble), so I have the most pixel-ey monitor plugged in (1680x1050); at least it has one usb 3.0 port, so I can use the hub that comes with the Z4 Pro.
Fluffy is down in the corner of the desk, still in the bag to keep off dust and sadly bereft of components :unsure: