Hi Logan, Wendel, and the entire Tek Syndicate team.
In the time, that i have been your fen, meaning almost an year, i have noticed 3 things:
1:i like your videos alot...
2: You give me a very interesting information about pretty much everything i care about, and
3: God, you love Asus...
Oh my god, how much you love Asus... You also love MSI, but damn man, you love Asus so much... Where does Gigabyte stays in the picture? Officially Nowhere to be found... Really? One of the largest manufacturers and they are nowhere to be found dating almost an year back?
Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtIl-W4hqrA
Gigabyte's Windforce version of GTX780 is showing slightly better performance and slightly lower temperatures then your beloved ASUS cu2 model... But still, you made 2 videos for the asus model and not a word for gigabyte. Not even mentioning the motherboards. Oh, the motherboards...
So, in short, my question is: Why you ignore Gigabyte? Nothing against Asus, don't get me wrong, i just think that Gigabyte have great options, that are sometimes slightly better and even slightly cheaper...
its because they don't give them anything i believe... because most of the time when they review parts its because it was donated to them, or it was lent to them.
They don't ignore Gigabyte... They review products that are sent to them and Asus was kind enough to let them check out a ton of products. You should be asking someone at Gigabyte why they skip over Tek Syndicate.
Gigabyte AM3+ motherboards are an absolute joke. I hear more people whining about how hot the VRM linear regulators run on them that they cause the voltage to yo-yo worse than a pregnant woman's diet choices. More than most anything else I've heard when they are attempting to run an FX-8350 on them.
Gigabyte products are pretty good (except amd boards). There gpus are good quality, have good cooling but are voltage locked so that's why i don't usually recommend them.
But from my experience from using an gigabyte board with my younger brothers build, It was the biggest headache ever. Took me a week to figure out their program easytune 6 was causing the pc to crash in any heavy task. most loading games it would just freeze.
I used a gtx660oc from them had not problems from that except coil whine. Great cooling never went over 50c and was pretty quiet.
honestly, we would love to review more parts from various vendors. we review very in depth. Maybe we can ask everyone to tweet at vendors to send us stuff. we had a hard time getting vendors for the haswell launch; we bought some stuff for that as well. we did not get any working engineering sample cpus. hopefully this will come in time or perhaps it is because we're really not biased?
we sort of went toe to toe with jj from asus, and he is legitimately one of the sharpest people we've ever met. he knows his stuff, the engineering rationale and every small detail about everything. we had rather a lot of lively debates and while we don't agree with everything we were able to appreciate and respect his position. I think we're probably one of the nerdiest channels out there, and we would love to get plugged into other vendors' people in order to nerd it up with 'their people' if that makes sense. Not a lot of the audience cares about tiny esotetic details.
But we have a cherry haswell that can hit 4.8 and hopefully we can dig up a legit 2011 ivybridge-e for some upcoming stuff we have planned.
paid memberships will probably help fund all this. and the hardware hackery. which is a bit expensive. very shortly. almost have that funding avenue worked out.
Please don't go down the route of having companies sponsor you and sticking ad's at the front of your videos! I'm sure you would all make wonderful Western Digital, SteelSeries and Intel posterboys, but your integrity is worth so much more, and your lack of bias means so much to all of us here.
Would happily throw my money into your revenue streams, from paid memberships, T Shirts/decals though to the 'Wendell300 omnibot arduino protoshield'