Along with continuing to ignore that HH's article is responding to them being absolutely blasted by Massman about the horrendous quality of their reviews (Thanks bassplayer for the initial link, as well as the quote, now we have it in this thread three times and still being completely ignored!), some of y'all seem to believe that reviewers should base their reviews on other people's experience.
That's fine, you're welcome to an opinion. However I disagree rather strongly.
A reviewer can only correctly review a piece of hardware in front of him. I cannot write a PSU review based on random experiences of random people, that results in Newegg type reviews. Useless.
I can only review the specific unit that I have.
Sometimes that coincides perfectly with the general populace's experiences, other times I get a good unit and many people and other reviewers get a bad unit (NEX1500 for instance). I can only review what I have, I cannot review something I cannot test personally.
Other times I get a unit that has one in a large number problems. The NZXT HALE90V2 1200w at Overclockers.com is a beautiful example of that. They got dinged due to issues with the specific units they sent me, when the line in general and the units that other reviewers got are fantastic.
To DrFPS: You're replying to the wrong dude.
That said, as a buyer yes absolutely research the product you're buying.
As a reviewer, yes absolutely, and then test your sample. If your sample works the others don't, that's fine. If yours has the same issues the others have, that's fine too.
Really you shouldn't need to, as you should be testing everything anyway, but sometimes that is impractical at best.
In any event, y'all are replying to an essay refuting another essay's accusation that HH gives useless awards to everybody, and yet nobody seems to have a comment on the initial essay.
That's fine, you're welcome to an opinion. However I disagree rather strongly.
A reviewer can only correctly review a piece of hardware in front of him. I cannot write a PSU review based on random experiences of random people, that results in Newegg type reviews. Useless.
I can only review the specific unit that I have.
Sometimes that coincides perfectly with the general populace's experiences, other times I get a good unit and many people and other reviewers get a bad unit (NEX1500 for instance). I can only review what I have, I cannot review something I cannot test personally.
Other times I get a unit that has one in a large number problems. The NZXT HALE90V2 1200w at Overclockers.com is a beautiful example of that. They got dinged due to issues with the specific units they sent me, when the line in general and the units that other reviewers got are fantastic.
To DrFPS: You're replying to the wrong dude.
That said, as a buyer yes absolutely research the product you're buying.
As a reviewer, yes absolutely, and then test your sample. If your sample works the others don't, that's fine. If yours has the same issues the others have, that's fine too.
Really you shouldn't need to, as you should be testing everything anyway, but sometimes that is impractical at best.
In any event, y'all are replying to an essay refuting another essay's accusation that HH gives useless awards to everybody, and yet nobody seems to have a comment on the initial essay.
