Kraysus

They need to make a shirt.... FOR LTTStore.com. The LTTstore.com shirt. Make it a shirt with an image of Linus wearing a different unique lttstore.com shirt. Make that shirt unavailable, it exists only as an image of Linus wearing the shirt design, and NEVER make it a purchaseable shirt as a gag. with the lttstore.com plastered obscenely all over it.

I feel like you're basically saying there's no point in looking at reviews to see what's still good or what problems some things still ahve or not. Like a company made a thing a while ago that was bad so you won't even look to see if they've improved at all, basing your knowledge entirely on outdated personal experience. Preferring Intel or AMD is silly. Look at reviews. AMD's got better memory support than Intel right now. Not that there's more RAM that will work with AMD, but AMD improves more with better RAM, and they support high frequencies just as well as Intel now. preferring one package design over the other is ridiculous as once it's in the system, you can't even see it. Also not on par performance wise? You REALLY haven't been watching reviews lately have you? The only area Intel's better in performance is 9700k and 9900k specifically in gaming. AMD 3rd gen Ryzen is faster per core in the vast majority of workloads now, and for the entry level and midrange parts, the lack of HT on the intel's parts cause performance issues not present on several games, leading to most techtubers recommending the 3600 in gaming over the i5 series because of more consistent performance. Sure this will change when Intel releases 10th series in a few months with HT across the board and a 10c i9. When that happens, they'll be best value in gaming and will top my recommendations for gaming builds in that time frame. Then Ryzen 4th gen comes out a few months later with a unified 8-core CCD that aren't broken into 4-core CCXs causing latency between cores, that latency that causes intel to still have the edge in gaming, likely putting Ryzen on top for gaming pretty close to across the board. It's always a back and forth, and you should buy what's good at the time you're building. If you're buying a 9900k for a pure gaming build right now, that's great. good buy. If you bought a 9600k for a pure gaming build right now, you messed up. If you bought a 9900k for a workstation, good chance you messed up. If you bought ANYTHING off their 10th gen X-series line, you messed up lol. The 3950X kicks takes the 10980XE to town for $250 less and the threadripper 3970X let alone the yet-to-be-released 3980X and 3990X (the latter of which has been confirmed to be coming with 64 overclockable cores) is the most powerful enthusiast CPU on the planet, beating out the much more expensive Xeon W-3175X in most (though not all) workloads. So perhaps you should reevaluate some of your biases. When buying a CPU or GPU, performance is king. Buy what makes the most sense for your budget and use-case. And makig the broad statement that AMD's performance is just not up to par with Intel's is laughably false. They trade blows, at worst.

Please re-read my OP. I did not say they should do NO sponsored videos. I actually think it's a problem that people have preferences for processors. Do you mean to defend someone that would knowingly buy something that was worse and higher price only because of the brand name on it? Also you really missed the point of my OP. please consider re-reading it, I don't feel like rehashing it again. - We can speculate all we want on their intentions. The intentions are irrelevant to the points I brought up. Sure there are some people that will use the video as you describe but also people that will go out and buy what they showed because they don't know better and doing research is hard, and when they're showing off a $900 build, it will be perceived as a recommendation even when it's not. I'm sure that Linus didn't mean it to be an endorsement for that hardware at that price. It doesn't matter what the intention is, what matters is how it's perceived, and how low-knowledge viewers will understand what's presented in the video. - Freshbooks, Savage Jerky, and Memory Express don't have hardware represented in the video. As such, their sponsorships don't affect what hardware is being shown off in the video. This is important, and the reason why i brought up AMD and that I'd have just as much issue with the video had it been sponsored by AMD. How would you feel if that video about "Which graphics card to buy in late 2019" video was sponsored by AMD? Obviously that's not exactly the same thing as the build guides are not explicit hardware recommendations, but my point is that they will get perceived as such, even if unintentional. - I'm really not sure what you mean about me taking away from the video... care to rephrase? - Dedicated reviews are definitely a very important piece of it. The fact that they do them is good... for GPUs and CPUs they're not the best reviews as they tend to have a rather low sample size in games and other applications as compared to some other techtubers out there like GN and HUB, but they're fine. And for informed people that do a lot of research, everything's fine. But not everyone does, and using a 2060 in a $900 build guide has the optics of recommendation, because not everyone goes around to look at all the reviews before pulling the trigger. - That last paragraph was an attempt to kill the fun of the trolls that just want to call me an AMD fanboy, because when i brought this up elsewhere that's the response I got (but instead it seems I mostly got a bunch of other trolling). Otherwise, I thought I did a pretty decent job presenting a pretty level-headed and thought-out discussion on the issue, and even presented ways to improve and how to handle build guides in the future. I'm really not sure why you just think I'm angry for the sake of being angry. I'm posting about this BECAUSE I like LTT and want to see them be as good as they can, and constructive feedback and suggestions is an important part of that.

Like the title suggests. I understand that they do sponsored content, and they're up front about what's sponsored and by whom. I also understand that build guides are about teaching how to build, and not explicitly recommending the hardware that's being built. I know lots of you will just stop there and go "great, no problem" and I'd understand that. Of course these are the reasons that Linus likely feels comfortable with making these deals/videos. This post is also not about witch burning for being shills, whatever whatever, because what's going on is very clear. But the reality is there's such a thing as optics. LTT has done 2 build guides lately. One of which contained acceptable hardware value, but was after Christmas, right at the tail end of boxing week sales, and the other was before christmas right in the middle of the time period people are getting gifts, or right before people are potentially looking to spend their new christmas money. Furthermore, the video right in the title had the bold caption $900 build implying, intentionally or not, a recommendation for hardware in the $900 category. However, even without the budget caption implying value, something like a build guide is most likely to get attention from the demographic that doesn't really know a whole lot about the industry, and are going to be more susceptible to influence. In the case of the 2060 in the first video, it was particularly bad, as the 2060 is a poor recommendation at that price point, being outright beaten in performance by the 5700, and having a more advanced feature set that the demographic looking at that price point is least likely to use. But even when the build actually does make sense, as is the case with the more recent intel-sponsored build guide, in terms of value for its purpose (though even that is nullified the moment you're talking about anything other than strict gaming performance) it still has the optics of recommendation given the guide nature of the video, and thus is morally problematic (god I hate the word problematic, but wasn't sure what else to use... I promise I'm not gonna whine about the other p-word). Nvidia knew what they were buying and in my opinion it's likely that many people may have gone out and bought 2060s because of that video. Sponsored guides aimed at lower-knowledge demographics seeking help and advice are a bad look for the tech press and I'm disappointed that Linus has recently gone all-in on them. Btw I would also not approve of an AMD-sponsored build guide. I also don't mind the regular sponsored content that gets done. Most of it is the company giving their product and some cash and saying "do something neat with this" and yes it's advertising, but at least it's not so morally problematic, because most of the things Linus does with them, he doesn't recommend doing anyway, and he's not literally encouraging newbies to do what he's doing, implying what he's doing it with. That being said, I also want to acknowledge the other big question what arises from this. Where does it end? How does a techtuber make a build guide without misleading someone? Regardless of what they're using, and whether they're getting paid by some company to do the video and include said company's hardware in it, people are going to watch that video, and basically go "buy all" at their nearest store because they don't want to have to think. I also understand that it kind of defeats the video to spend a bunch of time talking about alternative hardware that could be bought instead of each part and make it about how to pick hardware. The video's about how to build, not what to build. In this case, IMO, it's do the best you can, and put as little focus on the hardware decisions as possible (which includes price ie leave it out) but make good general-purpose choices on the hardware for the eagle-eyed people that will just copy it. Also one thing they did right (for the wrong reasons) was have one intel and one AMD build as installing those CPUs is meaningfully different. I also would have done one tower and one AIO cooler, but I guess there was some value in showing off the stock AMD cooler as it's adequate. PS: Inb4 all the "you're just an AMD fanboy butthurt about them doing builds that aren't all-red" yeah I know, get it out of your system. That's really not what this is about, but I know you're there. ... why am I wasting my time, we both know you won't read this whole text wall and see this.