Userbenchmark - the April Fools that never ends

A lot of you are asking where you should get your information instead. Thanks for asking! And I'll try to help: For a quick summary on the current situation of, say, CPUs, a video like this is awesome:    • Best CPUs of 2022 (Intel vs. AMD): Gaming,...   And he's just done one for GPUs, too.    • Best & Worst GPUs of 2022 for Gaming: $100...   I've listed these because the information is recent, up to date, and in them he talks you through what's good and bad about them. I've grown to like Gamersnexus for their regularly posted content, their neat little video segments and decent knowledge, but it's always best to look up several sources because anyone can make mistakes. But from what I've seen, if Gamersnexus makes a mistake then they're quick to rectify it, and in general it looks like most sites are in general agreement about computer products and it's only Userbenchmark that's reaching different conclusions. If you're looking to further your knowledge, then after you've seen a summary of CPUs and GPUs, I'd then go to sites and videos dedicated to a particular product that you're considering. Linustechtips is a more casual kind of channel that will give you the broad strokes in an entertaining manner, so that may be a good place to start out! However, you'll get more in-depth info from reviews on sites like anandtech and guru3d, or from other youtube channels like Hardware Unboxed. For those of you who used userbenchmark, can I just ask... why? Is it because it makes it easy to compare 2 different products? Unfortunately, while it looks like it's comparing 2 products, it's doing so via ratings that are either irrelevant or misleading. (Rating a product based on marketshare? Rating the LITHOGRAPHY of a product under 'nice to haves'? etc. Imagine a car review being based on where they manufactured the wing mirrors, rather than how good the resulting wing mirrors are- or insisting more than 2 seats is pointless since sometimes you'll only use 1!). Unfortunately, as convenient as userbenchmark's ratings may seem, the reason nobody else does it is because they're not based on anything real or applicable to real-life usage of these products. There's a reason that most sites don't condense products down to a single, comparable number- because you can't. It's more complicated than that, but it doesn't have to confuse you, and any good review will list through the pros and cons of the product, based on its own merits. There ARE places out there to help you, like those summary videos I linked at the beginning of this comment. A site like userbenchmark can look appealing, but its metrics are questionable, its product summaries are a joke, and its biases are clear. Avoid. Impact Prelude Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... 0:00 - Intro 1:13 - Pre-Ryzen 1:26 - Ryzen 1000 3:07 - Ryzen 2000 3:49 - Changed benchmarks 5:20 - Ryzen 3000 7:30 - Ryzen 5000 and UBM's tricks 11:23 - What if?... 12:20 - Intel 11900k review