Hmm... Well I'm definitely looking forward to the upcomming Parhelia review @ [H]OCP

[BuddMan]

Kyle, I actually like Hardocp. You guys do a good job there, even if it can be a little biased from time to time. But I'm with Joel on this, I still think you acted like a baby about the whole Parhelia thing as well.

[Parhelia Pro256]

Maybe if he makes it to MUrcer status, we'll let him have one of the real P's

[Dogbert]

Kyle,

Want to do something different ?
Want to be real [H]ard with your reviewd hardware ?
Try doing the old stuff once more, the stuff so many forgot about:

1. Seriously - try OC the FSB, see how cards handle non regular AGP speeds.

2. Test CPU scaling, try using cards on 'old' P-III 600Mhz cause not all of us have P4 or Athlons here (I still use an OC celeron @ 560Mhz)

3. When the card you 'like' has a feature others don't, you'll rave about it and show it all around, why don't do it here also, and when you benchmark, add a Parhelia benchark in surround gaming as well as in single screen mode (same base resolution only x 3 - means test all cards @ 800x600 with Parhelia doing it also at 800x600 x 3)

4. Compare noise level between different cards, some of us love having a cool and SILENT system

Just my 2 cents.

Oh, and welcome aboard if you care to stay

edit: typos...

[Jake]

Welcome to the MURC Kyle!

You probably don't remember me, but I have been frequenting your page since you had about a 100 hits per day.

I have fond memories of you holding a funeral service for your BH6 on your back yard for instance. A priceless and emotional moment that was!

Reading your posts here brings joy and fuzzy feelinz' The Kyle I used to know is back. Not that you were really gone or have changed, but your site has undergone a lot of changes since it started, and somewhere in there I think the "magic" that is your style got a bit lost or some people started interpreting statements at "face value", not catching your unique way of presenting things. (often a bit exagerated, but fun to read).

I guess moving from being the guy who tinkered with computers in his basement (wife bitching in the background about taking out the trash?) to respected hardware review and news site changed something. I guess now that you are respected, some people lay a bit too much weight to your words, and don't see what I would call "the obvious exagerations" that is part of your style.

Coming to the MURC to explain the real deal is appreciated. It reasures me that you are not jumping to conclusions in your reviews, and willing to receive new input to test practices. Thank you.

Regards,

Jake

[FrgMstr]

Thanks for the kind words Jake and thanks for all the support over these years, it certainly has been a hell of a ride.

When we gave that ABIT mainboard the Viking Funeral was the first time I really understood what the folks out there in Netland really wanted. It seemed to be just a bunch of PC junkies that wanted to have some fun and be entertained while they were getting their fill PC information. To this day I am still taken back by how many links that "article" got. Hell, I thought it to be just one of those moments on stoopidity and it turned out to be something quite the oppisite, I just did not know what I was doing at the time.

The writing style, what we, how we say it, and when we say it have certainly changed. The OCP was never supposed to be what it is today and when we started getting taken seriously it was scary. We just wanted to play with hardware and write about it to share with our friends. Sure there were 4 or 5000 of us but still a pretty small group sharing a common interest. Then WHAMO! You have a ton of folks coming by reading what you wrote and taking it all to heart. It was then that we had to start removing the "comedy" from the reviews as we started catching bad press on how we were doing things. I certainly did not want anyone going away thinking we were idiots, which of course sometimes we were. It was pretty much then we decided that all the irreverance needed to be saved for editorial and comments on the news page. Still calling a spade a spade will piss a lot of folks off which we still tend to do every once in a while.

I know we do better work now than we ever have. We are certainly not right 100% of the time, but when we are wrong we strive to be the first folks to point it out. Misinformation s a no-win for everyone.

What a lot of folks don't seem to understand is that we are not computer professionals. Never have been, and never have wanted to be. We are just some normal guys that like to tweak out hardware and pass that information along to our buds so they can do the same. Take that, and throw in some humor, some sarcasm, and the cold hard truth without some politically correct BS and you get [H].

OK, I am rambling and will shut up now.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Originally posted by FrgMstr
[B] [URL=http://hardocp.com/article.html?art=MjAw][B]

haha, that's classic Kyle, welcome

[xortam]

I remember when that b-b-q was linked here.

[Captain Marvel]

WELL .......WHERE'S THE DAMN P REVIEW [H] ??

[Evildead666]

Abit BX Chipsets kick ass...
My BX still works, very well i might say

Kudos, kyle.

[H] is one of my favorite sites, especially for all the weird shit you somehow find.....Pyromaniacs R us.

Nice seein' u here.

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by CHHAS
This FPS won't be an issue in the future kinda reminds of a certain someone saying that noone would ever need more than 640kb of memory

Finally, someone who is THINKING. The fact that Kyle believes that "FPS won't matter in 2 years" is scary. Because in two years there will be games with even higher poly counts, even more complex mapping methods, even more complex lighting, etc. Eventually speed will start to level off (as things become 100% real looking), but that's still a long time away.