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UserBenchmark suggests you buy the i5-13600K over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D — says AMD drives sales with 'aggressive marketing' rather than 'real-world performance' (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] dustyData 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait, UserBenchmark is not a shitposting meme site? They actually present their reviews as serious?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone in the tech community knows they're a joke. But they still own top spots on Google if you try to find a specific CPU's benchmarks so it's a bit of a problem .

[–] dustyData 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I found them when looking for a gaming laptop to buy. A model that was regarded by everyone to be a solid mid range, with a strong cost to performance ratio and sensible cost reducing compromises, was reviewed by UB as the worst thing ever. Their review was a complete outlier and awfully childish and filled with gratuitous insults and aggressive gamer slang language. I ended up buying that laptop and it's exactly what others claimed, a solid mid performer. I blocked them from my results ever since. I can imagine who their core audience and community is, and it's exactly the kind of place I never want to visit.