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Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 1 year ago by issue0315 to c/technology
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[–] BURN 300 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a net win. Now they won’t be recommended to everyone trying to do hardware comparisons. The bias in their results has pretty much made them worthless as a source since Ryzen released.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately the subscription appears to be for their benchmarking tool only, not for website access.