Which hardware review sites are trustworthy?

[Phantom2022]

Which hardware review sites are trustworthy?

[191x7]

3 minutes ago, Phantom2022 said:

Which hardware review sites are trustworthy?

Tech Yes City

Hardware Unboxed

Gamers Nexus

BitWit

Pauls Hardware

JayzTwoCents

Crinacle

Z reviews

Nerd On a Budget

TotallySilenced

Greg Salazar

Craft Computing

Carey Holzman

Toasty Bros

Zach's Tech Turf

Dawid Does Tech Stuff

CazuaLLUK

Dragon Blogger technology

Enos Tech

Linus Tech Tips

RandomGamingHD

Boardzy

HardwareCanucks

Actually Hardcore Overclocking

ThioJoe

ETeknix

Matthew Moniz

MKBHD

Rocket Jump Ninja

Level1Techs

UFD Tech

Podcastage

The Techne

EposVox

[jones177]

These are on my favorites list now.

 

Tech Deals(Byte Size Tech)

Pauls Hardware

Linus Tech Tips

Tech Yes City

Gamers Nexus

JayzTwoCents

KitGuruTech

The Tech Chap

eTeknix

Gear Seekers

O!Technology

der8auer EN

Actually Hardcore Overclocking

 

Some of the channels are about hype to get clicks so I view there opinions with lots of grains of salt.

[Guest]

Could be any all or none actually.

 

So reviewing unreleased hardware, or new to be released, sometimes can be vastly inaccurate because of firmware and software updates after released to the public later.

 

This is not intended inaccuracies, it just simply happens. 

 

Politically, reviewers in the past have been "paid" under the table to ensure a good review. This probably is still a reality as it was 15 to 20 years ago.

 

Also, the opinion of general public may not be similar to the reviewers after release. There could be a genuine liking for a product the person reviewing may not like. 

 

Trust should be built on a general consensus, but solely, this is my opinion. 

 

[Phantom2022]

Thanks for the replies.

I found a site like Metacritic (TestSeek) where the review aggregate any product that exists and gives it a score. But the problem with its site is that it repeats the product several times and adds a news item instead of a review, and worst of all, it collects reviews and gives a false ratings to the products.
But it is good that there are reviews from international sites and you can check each review and collect the scores yourself and reach a general result.
Because not all sites always review unbiased! (Example: Linus sponsored reviews!), So it seems like you should always read reviews from all sites that you trust to find product issues, such as the sum of Metacritic game scores.

 

(When you want to sort on the site, be sure to select sort by published)

Official site: https://us.testseek.com/  (HQ: Netherlands)

Example: Asus GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC

https://us.testseek.com/computers/graphic-cards/pci-express/asus-geforce-rtx-3070-noctua-oc-8gb-gddr6-pcie-p-30789c9b-7774-a199-0247-182cbd6a6e7f.html

[Mister Woof]

For a good analysis, you have to look at pretty much all of them. Find out what (if any) test limitations there are (such as type of test, settings, test system, number of tests, etc), any biases they may have, and then come to your own conclusion. A 50-game test might have more useful information than a 5 game test owing to a larger sample size. Although if you only care about one game, check the data on that game.

 

Some of the big written publications are just print editions of the youtube videos (techspot, kitguru, gamers nexus, etc.), so in addition you should check out written reviews from tom's hardware, anandtech, techpowerup, anandtech, guru3d, eurogamer, etc.)

 

I haven't found much worthy information from places like PCWORLD or PC Gamer. Oddly, these were the old school sites. Now they just seem so antiquated.

 

The youtube channels mentioned above are great resources. Just watch them all. Some of the older bigger channels to me have worse data, such as LTT/Jayz/Paul's Hardware. Although typically they have a different demographic and approach the data from a high level instead of the minutiae than say, Gamers Nexus or HUB.

 

[Dogzilla07]

HardwareBusters/Techpower/Tomshardware/Cybenetics = Aris (power supplies and some other stuff)

 

Techpowerup = VSG (fan reviews)