I ’ m still trying hard to do proper testing and reviews . One that takes at least 1-2 weeks to complete , but most of the time I ’ m starting to feel that my efforts aren ’ t justified since the readers don ’ t want to read about in-depth testing anymore .
Other than your own channel and of course JagatReview website , which other sites do you go to for trusted information and perhaps reviews of items and products you may not be looking at ?
My go-to places were Anandtech and TechReport for reviews , Techpowerup for news and as for Youtube I watch DigitalFoundry and buildzoid ’ s AHOC ( Actually Hardcore Overclocking ).
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I want to come down to specifics with this question . Since the launch of AMD ’ s Ryzen , we ’ ve seen a ton of reviews , contradictory , less than reliable information and all kinds of things . What to you has been the strangest thing you ’ ve seen written regarding the AMD platform ?
For me the one strange part that struck into my mind is how some people perceive Ryzen to be a bad overall product purely because its single-threaded performance is still ( slightly ) behind Intel ’ s current solution ( kabylake ), and therefore has less gaming performance in some scenarios .
In reality , there ’ s lots of scenario where Ryzen shines - heavy multithreaded workload for example .
I also saw that a few people complained to the motherboard vendors because their Ryzen system only had 5 RAM timings to work with , which is clearly not the motherboard vendor ’ s fault .
Do you think this is a lack of information from the vendor side or just a result of the way the internet works , where the being first is very important , sometimes more so than accurate representation ?
Well , it ’ s understandable since Ryzen is totally new platform , and we reviewers are given such a small window to do a proper test on it at launch .
Your thoughts on all the upcoming platforms . If you were a betting man , which platforms would you choose for ( a ) competitive overclocking and ( b ) for gaming ?
For Competitive overclocking , I think Kaby Lake and Kaby Lake-X ( hopefully its successors as well ) will continue to dominate the performance on this sector with their excellent single-threaded performance and massive clocking ability on both air and LN2 .
RGB on everything ? Your thought and feeling ?
I ’ m kinda sick of RGB really , it ’ s everywhere hahah^^
Well , the ability to customize and personalize how a certain products look is nice and users like it . I just hope the attention to aesthetic and looks doesn ’ t make the users forget about the functionality of the product itself .
Finally , if you ’ re playing any games right now , which ones are they ? As for the future , which 2017 release are you looking forward to if any at all ?
Occasionally , I played GTA V ( not really doing anything , just roaming in the city LOL ), and Project CARS . Definitely looking forward to see how Quake Champions will turn out :)
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