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SkyNetRising Not interested in Premium content. If it costs extra, then don't need it. Reply
Siorus I won't pay for Tom's Premium because many of the people Tom's employs are not capable of producing content worth paying for. Let me give one concrete example: Your CPU cooler reviewer doesn't understand what he's actually measuring. He claims his in-case testing is more representative of real-world use than open-bench testing. This is categorically incorrect. By coupling the cooler to his specific case, fan configuration, and internal ambient temperature, he's produced results that are referenced entirely to his setup and don't generalize to anyone else's. The job of a cooler review is to characterize the cooler—ideally its thermal resistance given a known heat source at a known power and power density. That's a property of the product. A reader can take that number and apply it to their own system. An open bench with controlled ambient and a fixed heat load isolates the cooler and produces exactly that kind of transferable data. Thomas's method does the opposite. His in-case ambient temperature is a function of his case airflow, his GPU's heat output, his fan curves, his room temperature—none of which correlate with my build or anyone else's. Worse, the ranking he produces may not even be ordinally stable across different cases, because coolers with different fin geometries and fan characteristics will respond differently to different airflow environments. His results might seem more realistic, but because of the confounding variables he's introduced, they land somewhere between marginally useful and completely worthless. And the irony of the whole thing is that he criticizes open-bench testing for being unrealistic, because he (observably, by his own words) has absolutely no concept of any of this: My results may differ from other reviewers because I emphasize results that are comparable to real-world use. This means I test CPU coolers inside of a closed desktop case, which increases cooling difficulty compared to other testing methods. Many sites test CPU coolers outside of a case, on an open test bench. Open benches have lowered ambient temperatures, which in turn makes weak coolers appear stronger than they really are. Some publications have used generic thermal plates to test cooling solutions. I reject both of these methods because they don’t accurately reflect the real-world conditions where a CPU cooler is used. The point of controlled testing is to isolate the variable you're trying to measure. If you want to be paid like professionals, hire people who understand experimental design. Reply
SkyBill40 It's genuinely disappointing that TH has chosen to go down this path but not at all surprising given that a lot of other publications have done the same (to what I can only imagine isn't a great revenue generator). Still, I will continue viewing content here and partaking in the forums so long as it continues to come at no cost to me. I don't find enough value in what's presented here or on other sites that use a paywall model to warrant me subscribing, but the mileage of others will likely vary. Also, having taken the survey, some of the questions need rework or additional options added to express a "not applicable/none/no" kind of choice. Reply
JarredWaltonGPU It's alarming to me that one of the questions mentions how CPU/GPU in-depth reviews are "already" a Premium feature. Are they? If so, that only makes me feel better about my decision to leave TH and go work elsewhere. I provided some of the best GPU reviews around, Paul had great CPU reviews, and Jeff and Jake are continuing that legacy. But if you put any of that content into THP? It's dead to me and the rest of the internet, and you will kill off one of the last godfather tech publications. But at least AI might not be able to hoover it up? And sure, Future already killed off AnandTech, Maximum PC, and a bunch of other properties, while junk like Tom's Guide and Tech Radar gave "tech-lite" reviews and chased SEO and ecommerce commissions. I suspect with Google's changes, that's no longer working out too well, and sites like Tom's Hardware are gaining traction again. You know, the sites that do the REAL testing and don't just phone it in (which really only applies to the GPU and CPU reviews here, if we're being honest). Paywall more existing items to your peril, basically. I'm sure HotHardware, Gamer's Nexus, LTT, and others would love to see TH paywall the CPU and GPU content. RIP if it happens! Reply
PrazVT I've been long past my 'subscription tolerance' for streaming services and a few software services. Not happening for news. Reply
ravewulf I have a very casual interest in tech news and reviews, and even then I cherry-pick which ones I look at, so paid options are not interesting to me, regardless of how good they are or what value they provide. I'm just not the target audience and never will be Reply
Gururu Not sure the rough comments are warranted. I remember back in the 90s when Tom's used to be picked on by everybody like Anandtech, HardOCP, and TFS. Now its like the only one still alive. The free site has gone a little fluffy and light, I would ask that it buck the trends and start doing some unique content on top of the status quo. Survey submitted. Reply
voyteck I could have paid $3 per month, but I passed on the special offer anyway. I wasn't sure if I’d be able to renew the subscription at a similar price later, so I took it as an opportunity to spend less time reading things other than books. For me, the problem with regular pricing is that I’m already paying for: – high quality journalism – OneDrive/Microsoft 365 – Spotify – Netflix/Prime (incl. stuff for rental) not to mention my phone and fiber-optic bills. Access to in-depth reviews and analyses just isn't a priority when I can't afford another streaming service, a better AI, language learning tools, or "Le Monde"/"New York Times". Reply
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