3 ms·

Hm, that's taking it a bit far given that I've yet to see any gamer who believes that e.g. taping plastic bags with gravel to their network cables [1] will lowe

by Ourgon 5y ago

Hm, that's taking it a bit far given that I've yet to see any gamer who believes that e.g. taping plastic bags with gravel to their network cables [1] will lower their ping times (if it is not for weighing down a cruddy connector which only works when you press the damn thing down, that is). There does not seem to be a gamer-equivalent of $30000 speaker cables [2] (8 ft., add $1500 per additional ft.) or $10.000 power cables [3] either. No, audiophiles still hold the biscuit for being the most easily deluded moneyed demographic out there. If Hans Christian Andersen were alive today he'd write a story about it, "The Emperor's new Speaker Cable" [4] where a little boy is the only one who dares to comment on the piece of rusty barbed wire connecting the speakers to the amplifier. [1] https://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm https://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm [2] https://www.synergisticresearch.com/cables/srx-cables/srx-sc/ https://www.synergisticresearch.com/cables/srx-cables/srx-sc... [3] https://www.synergisticresearch.com/cables/srx-cables/srx-ac/ https://www.synergisticresearch.com/cables/srx-cables/srx-ac... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes

Tostino 5y ago
I love how much more ridiculous this has gotten since I last looked at this space ~15 years ago.
LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
Oh. Really? Why not compare the insane prices of thermal paste and compounds per volume/weight with the stuff that is used industrially? Not always, but often used for results which could be called statistic noise. Very diminishing returns. All for pushing reviews with many bar graphs over two dozen pages, and so much more page impressions. Like the rest of gamermedia, too. Woo!
- Ourgon 5y ago
  Show me the diamond-dust cooling paste for $10000 per CPU and you'll be right - for a little while. Soon you'll find that paste in larger $50.000 thimble-sized containers to be rubbed under all equipment "to open up the sound stage". Raving reviews will come in, "as if the composer is standing next to you", "the lows were really clearing up, as if the sun broke through the clouds".
  - LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
    Hm, k. BUT...everything counts in large amounts :) So we have the very few audiophiles which totally ignore the thin copper layer on cheap PCBs, versus the whole market segment of twitchy gamers going for Bling, Bling, Bling without function on their RAM, coolers, vs. the equivalent stuff installed in laptops and servers which lacks that :-)

by Ourgon 5y ago

Tostino 5y ago

I love how much more ridiculous this has gotten since I last looked at this space ~15 years ago.

LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago

Oh. Really? Why not compare the insane prices of thermal paste and compounds per volume/weight with the stuff that is used industrially? Not always, but often used for results which could be called statistic noise. Very diminishing returns. All for pushing reviews with many bar graphs over two dozen pages, and so much more page impressions. Like the rest of gamermedia, too. Woo!

Ourgon 5y ago
Show me the diamond-dust cooling paste for $10000 per CPU and you'll be right - for a little while. Soon you'll find that paste in larger $50.000 thimble-sized containers to be rubbed under all equipment "to open up the sound stage". Raving reviews will come in, "as if the composer is standing next to you", "the lows were really clearing up, as if the sun broke through the clouds".
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
  Hm, k. BUT...everything counts in large amounts :) So we have the very few audiophiles which totally ignore the thin copper layer on cheap PCBs, versus the whole market segment of twitchy gamers going for Bling, Bling, Bling without function on their RAM, coolers, vs. the equivalent stuff installed in laptops and servers which lacks that :-)