Hmmm.
Paint me black and white if you wish, but is anyone else perturbed by the transition from OC.com being an industry independent test source to now being a site that is conducting competitive performance analysis against a product that they are now going to have a vested commercial interest in seeing succeed?
I am not saying that results are biased or inaccurate or anything of that nature, but in declaring a now very public conflict of interest with respect to what they're working on doesn't that then now remove the very independent nature upon which OC.com reviews were once thought to exist under?
What I mean is that OC.com has now crossed the line from an industry independent review source, to effectively being a nascent manufacturer hosting their own internally conducted competitive analysis reviews. This now means that the very independence with which OC.com used to operate under is now conflicted. This doesn't extend to water-cooling, but includes all cooling reviews of all products that they have conducted. This thermosyphon product has by their admission been in development for over two years - where does that place the independence of any review conducted by OC.com in the last two years?
I guess I'm just saddened to see the loss of independence of OC.com, especially since it existed for so long.
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