Review Editors and Benchmarks DO NOT Suck

I support the way [H] does reviews. Especially when they first reviewed Doom 3 as being playable with on a 1.8 with Geforce 4 MX and low low settings (While still looking pretty decent). Alot of reviews focus on numbers instead of screenshots, gameplay experience (lag, levels loading etc). I agree [H] does quality reviews and stands their ground. This guy is a total douche bag if he would actually maybe read the article and see some [H] reviews compared to other sites reviews of the same exact thing he might just remove that foot from his mouth.

a lot of reviews are plain ****

I wish I could decide for all companies who they sent review products to, so the bad reviewers would get terminated without mercy

Let's examine the rating system in general. I have been reading Consumer Report for over 30 years; they too have rating of product tested in conjunction with data from other sources.

Rate what you want, at the end of the day if your rating is so much away from what the end users are experiencing nobody will care for your ratings. Experience is a very complex word that it may mean many; an experienced gamer has no idea what graphic card requirement for today's 3D tech designers are looking for; an experienced AMD & Intel Desktop processor system guru has nothing to do with the requirements from Enterprise Business Apps.

What most of us are; a bunch of PC enthusiasts spending our leisure time exchanging what we know about PCs mostly in the entertainment areas; similar to a bunch of guys showing off beefed up cars in a parking lot on Saturaday night; the auto parts salesmen standing by eagerly next to us to sell us products while the real professional drivers are spending time with the high pay sponsors discussing the multi-million advertising scheme.

Yes, some of us are more business savy than others. Rather than doing what we know, they choose to do what you don't know at the same time: business. There will always be people who may not like you, as much as some who don't like THG or [H], or even [M]. The point remains; it would be nice if you like me: knowing I can't do/say everthing you like, I have to do/say what I think is right to the best of my ability. Hopefully, I am more right than wrong;; otherwise, I will just have to say more to harvest a little "right" until nobody listens. Or, I can learn to say more "right" things.

We have read enough even from our readers how subjective rather than objectively evaluting a given product.

It really doesn't matter whether the product is a PC part or Automotive part. There are measurements that we ought to use; Meter or Yard in length; Celsius or Fahreheit for temperature.

Similar in Medical Journal - the consistency of the environment; equipment used; method in conducting the test determine the "trust worthiness" of the outcome or data.

If there is anything more deceiving would very well be the noise level from FAN in recent months. While temperature is easy to understand as we all know a normal body temperature should "feel" relative to degree in C and F, dBA is quite a stranger to many. Hearing and sight have always been an subjective interpretations.

Yes, we have a long way to go in the PC product review area; besides not many review sites are more than 10 years old, in human age they are toddlers not even adults

"All his article in CPU Magazine does is confirm what I've been saying for a couple years now; [H]err Bennett has lost touch with reality"

actually, the videocards reviews at [H] are very nicely done

[H] is correct in saying the giving scores to products does not say much.

a good conclusion and "recommended" tags are worth more