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Originally Posted by dr.chaos
I agree with Cathar but....
I'm a long time reader of both Overclockers.com and Procooling and I'd like to remind all Procooling readers (or tell you if you didn't know) that in the first years of activity OC.com was designing and selling their own heatsink, so this is not the first time they have a conflict of interest.
In all honesty I don't remember if they stopped selling their own heatsink when they begun to review third party products or if they weren't making enough money with it.
Joe did also act as a consultant for different kind of manufacturers in the past (I think it was something related to video card cooling or similar, but I may be wrong).
Joe or Ed did also do some interesting tests with an oscilloscope about motherboard built quality, but they stopped immediately... dunno if they were asked to stop or if it is a different story, I'm just suspicious about that :shrug:
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OC.COM is one of the oldest more respected sites on the web.
Joe sold the first real overclockers sink the pin fin Alpha's with the 60mm fan more to introduce it to the OC community than to make money he probably sold all of 200 units
Joe was the first to introduce The concept of C/W into the hardware review chaos that existed prior to it's introduction.
Joe was was one of the earliest advocates in promoting water cooling
Joe I think Likes being ahead of the curve. It is hard for me to understand how people have fits of moral certitude when nearly every hardware review site on the web when you open the webpage to review has as his main advertiser the company whose product he is reviewing.
Joe is at least is being upfront he could have made up another story and hid behind a corporate shield. I think the fact he is being honest about what he is doing means allot. The fact that if joe can bring this to market and it has merit chalk one up for the OC community. I for one am cheering the underdog