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Thanks to you, Vega: FE Review is here!

Hi all!

Vega: FE was not sampled to most media, but we knew there was a lot to be learned from this exciting -- for better or for worse -- new launch from AMD. We purchased a Vega: FE and ordered it to the lab as quickly as possible. It's been a few 20-22-hour days, with Andrew also putting in sig...

Shirts, Discord, & Upcoming Content

Supporters,

Thanks for your continued encouragement of what we do! Computex was great this year -- it seems that we managed to cover more types of hardware and get deeper coverage than last year, plus added some vlog coverage. The power component discussion on all the boards was new for us.

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On the Bloatware Video

Hi, Patreon backers!

I was speaking with many of you on our Patreon Discord earlier, but wanted to send out a message to everyone: We appreciate your direct support, as it enables us to remain fully independent and continue posting critical coverage of manufacturers. Being critical is always risky...

Spoiler! New charts for GPU reviews

Big spoiler for our Patreon supporters! You'll see this a day in advance of publication.

The attached is our new chart. I have truncated the legend so as not to spoil the results. The legend shows different video card coolers (check the ASUS Strix review, posting tomorrow, for that information). W...

Teaser: Using Tape on Video Cards

The image attached to this post isn't the stock configuration of EVGA's new 1080 Ti SC2 -- it's our special take on it. The card is riddled with holes and, from what EVGA says, that should help with cooling. We decided to look into that claim by plugging the holes.

The results have thus far been i...

Upcoming Content Teaser - Interviews, VR Benchmarks

Hey, everyone!

We have some upcoming content that we're really excited about producing. After working for several months on VR benchmarking methodology, we've gotten a system that works fairly fluidly (from a production standpoint), and now all that's left is understanding the data that is spit ou...

GN Merch Store is Live!

Hi, everyone!

Following our huge Ryzen Revisit effort (lots of behind-the-scenes work on that), we decided to spend some time to catch up on other obligations. That Ryzen Revisit content took the better part of a week for us, and I've had the "Get GN Store Live" item on my to-do list the entire ti...

Important Issues on Fair Repair & Internet Privacy

Hi all,

I know that a lot of you are backers of our video content first and foremost, and so I wanted to call attention to some of our article-only content that got published this week. We just recently covered Fair Repair laws in the US -- which we believe are critical to ongoing consumer protect...

Ti Hybrid & we got a "shirt guy!"

Hey, everyone!

We've picked up a lot of shirt-tier backers lately. It's gotten to the point that I can no longer keep up by manually shipping all the shirts, so we've now hired a company to handle the shirt printing and shipping/sales for us. This is the same group that does merch for Paul, Kyle, ...

Important: What Shirts Do You Want?

 We have picked up a lot of new Patreon backers in the past week! Thanks for your ongoing support, everyone. Given the new interest in helping GN and the big boost in shirt-tier backers, I wanted to give the community an opportunity to pick the next shirt designs. 

Here are some options:...

Things Coming Up!

Hey everyone,

As Patreon backers, you get a brief i nside-look at what's coming up in the immediate future.

We're currently working on publishing a Watch Dogs 2 standalone CPU benchmark, following-up Patrick's CPU optimization guide in Watch Dogs 2. This is our way of getting mileage out of ...

Coming up: 2500K Revisit

For our Patreon backers, you have the privilege of getting some insight as to what content is coming up shortly. We're excited to announce our CPU revisit series, following on the popularity of the GPU revisit series (which has another episode coming up next month).

This first CPU revisit is for t...

CES, Kaby Lake, Zen, Vega

We are expecting big news coming out of CES for the three major architecture topics listed in this post's headline: Kaby Lake, Zen, and Vega should all see some sort of unveil, detailing, or launch.

The GN team will be at CES for live coverage. This means that, as we've done every year, we'll have...

New script automation!

Thanks to all our Patrons, I was able to work with Andrew to shoot a side video on our in-house automated backup and compression routines that we built recently. This was a HUGE challenge for the site -- we were producing something like half a TB per month of data, and that meant burning through dri...

Goal Reached - Starting Another Show

Thanks for helping us reach our $450 goal, everyone!

With your support, we can financially justify spinning-off another recurring segment for the YouTube audience. Like Ask GN, this will primarily be a video-targeted series, but we will (probably) produce brief text summaries for the website, too....

Behind the Scenes: Alphacool Testing

For the first time ever, GN will be working with an Alphacool product! We're excited to see how the Alphacool Eiswolf GPX-Pro performs on the bench. Thanks to GN viewer 'Eric,' we're able to put this cooling system to the test. This would not be possible without you, Eric, so thanks for the loaner!<...

Discord Chat Server for Patreon Backers

Hey folks!

We have a new Discord server live, to replace the existing Steam chat group. You can join this server by connecting your Discord account to your Patreon account. Please find the link below for instructions on this:

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Added A New Patreon Goal

Hey folks,

We've decided to add a new Patreon goal for a public access VBIOS downloads section. This is something that I've personally wanted to do for a long time, but we need funding to support and build the platform. Our objective is to provide the following:

- A rip of the VBIOS found on...

EVGA VRM Follow-ups

We have two follow-up articles planned for the EVGA VRM fracas regarding the 10-series cards. The first is this one, the second will be post-testing.

It was difficult trying to figure out the best way to collect direct VRM data without interfering with the components' abilities to transfer heat to...

Patron Behind-the-Scenes: Too Much Data

Hey Patrons / supporters!

Part of helping us make content means that you'll occasionally get an inside look at the challenges we face in content production. I currently have a couple dozen data points for CPU coolers. We're working with the new Kraken series (all three), the previous Kraken series...

A Return to Star Citizen Coverage

We've had a long history of covering Star Citizen. I first reached-out to Chris Roberts' team in 2012, right around when the Kickstarter campaign hit ~$800,000, and I remember distinctly thinking that I'd "missed the boat" on coverage. In this industry, there's normally a short window to cover somet...

California tour 2016 nearly complete

I'm writing from a hotel room in Orange County, where we recently visited the UCI eSports arena opening (hosted by iBUYPOWER, Logitech, ASUS), but before that, toured MSI, Cloud Imperium Games, Rosewill, Thermaltake, and we've got a few more. On Monday, we'll be visiting EVGA and likely iBUYPOWER's ...

Behind the Scenes of TLDR

Check here: http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2603-new-gn-series-tldr-with-heatpipes-cpu-heatsink

For those unaware, Andrew, one of our two main video producers, is al...

Revising our Methods

Hey Patrons!

This post is only for you.

I've been spending the last day cataloging and detailing our testing methodology on our internal servers. Text instruction files, detailed settings configurations, video walkthroughs of the tests -- all important stuff, and I've been either personally ...

Working with AHOC on Upcoming Video

Some of you may be familiar with "Actually Hardcore Overclocking," a YouTube channel run by "buildzoid." Buildzoid happens to be extremely knowledgeable about overclocking, VRMs, and board components, and so we've recruited AHOC to collaborate with us on at least one upcoming video. Be sure to check...

July 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

1060 Hybrid Project Comes to a Close

We learned a lot with the GTX 1060 Hybrid project. That's the whole goal of these -- with a high-end card, like the 1080, we might expect some performance gains or greater OC headroom. For the lower-end stuff, we're really just trying to learn more about the product itself; that starts with a tear-d...

Need More Projects!

I've been having a lot of fun with these more DIY-themed projects lately. The Hybrid builds were a start -- but we're probably going to do more. They're interesting from a creation standpoint: Putting together such content doesn't capitalize my time, but gives Andrew a good amount of editing work --...

RX 480 CF Testing Underway

http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2496-amd-rx-480-8gb-review-and-benchmark-vs-gtx-970-1070?showall=1

Hey everyone!

We're working on a fol...

June 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!