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by p1necone 1875 days ago
Userbenchmark is so bizarre. I really want to know who's running it and what their motives are for being so blatantly disingenuous.

The best theory I've got is that the owners were shorting AMD stock before it became obvious that they were serious competition again, and now they're using their reach to spread as much FUD as possible to claw some of their money back. But they come off as such idiotic hacks, I'm not sure that theory really makes any sense.
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exciteabletom 1875 days ago
What's even stranger is that they were actually favourable to 1st gen Ryzen processors when they came out. On their 1800x review[0] they call it: "A very welcome shake-up of the CPU market"

Then they did a complete 180 when AMD actually shook up the CPU market. Perhaps the site's owner changed?

There's a great video about the site here for those who are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQSBj2LKkWg

0: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X/Rating/3916

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p1necone 1874 days ago
Wealthy investor secretly buying out userbenchmark to spread FUD is an even juicier conspiracy theory...
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