About the comment regarding FLIR measurements

Discussion in 'Hardware Reviews and News' started by Relayer, Jun 22, 2014.

  1. Relayer

    Relayer Guest

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    About this comment you put in reviews explaining the reasons for Thermal imaging...

    Why the secrecy, and the effective free pass, for this practice? Behavior like this is BS!!! It's both the job and responsibility of the free press to report activities like this and to not allow the cheaters to go unnamed. Not trying to be rude, but I think you guys are falling down on the job and putting your credibility at risk by protecting the offenders.
     
  2. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    I think you are misinterpreting as we're exposing exactly that in the reviews but also in the background.

    We invested in a FLIR camera worth thousands of Euro's to expose manufacturers, not to protect them. There is one party that we informed about these practices, to be fair we warned them about our findings and as a result they have updated their BIOSes to be more precise. They claim is was a fault setting in the BIOS, not done purposely. When we checked other products, we did not find the discrepancy.

    To date we have not seen manufacturers do this anymore. We did notice offsets here and there, but these are all mentioned and exposed in our article conclusions.

    By using FLIR thermal imaging in ALL our graphics card reviews, manufacturers can't get away or escape the findings we publish, meaning they will think twice about cheating before they do it.
     

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