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I never take corporate benchmarks about their own hardware too seriously. I always assume they set the tests up to show the most favorable outcome. Still, I'm excited to see how Zen 2 is going to look with the Rome architecture improvements. I really think that AMD has to hit 5GHz on their...

NVIDIA claimed that their increased MSRP was due to an increase in material costs, namely GDDR5. I don't know if that's still true with GDDR6. I know there's an active class action lawsuit against Micron, Hynix, and Samsung alleging they colluded to artificially decrease DRAM supply in order...

That happened about ten years back. Wasn't just NVIDIA either. ATI (AMD Radeon) was doing similar stuff, paying for reviews and cooking benchmarks to skew performance metrics. Sure, they could have perfectly innocent reasons, totally harmless, but with most companies, and companies such as...

You're correct that NVIDIA can't control who reviews their products after launch, but people who can get the products earlier and get their reviews out sooner stand a better chance of earning more revenue from their videos. People who are late to the show will earn less because those videos...

Sure, fans can fail, but pumps tend to fail more often and more spectacularly. If a line in a water system breaks, I could have my whole system hosed down with liquid, which should be non-conductive, but may no longer be. If a fan breaks, the system shuts down on thermal overheat protection...

If I'm using a Threadripper in any sort of critical environment, where I can't afford downtime, then I'd much rather use an air cooler over an AIO or open loop system. Put simply, air coolers are reliable. You trade some top end for that reliability, but in this situation I wouldn't be...