Sponsor: Arctic Liquid Freezer II ARGB on Amazon https://geni.us/8BokJIn HW News this week, we start with a discussion about Linus Sebastian's recent reply t...
Honestly, the prototype as it stands is a product no one should buy. But it is also a product only 1 person could buy (and that was a mistake…). It is a very expensive for what it is and anyone that has that kind of money to spend on a cooler is going to want the latest graphics card, not the last years model. So as a product for the 3090TI it really does not have any real market.
But it is only a prototype. And if they made one for the 4090TI instead it would have a niche market again. Development of these things takes time and they are only a very small company - no telling what they will bring to market in the future but I think it would take less time to adapt what they learnt from this prototype to one for the newer cards wont take as long. Maybe they might even need to target the next gen as their first actual market.
Either way, the conclusions that LTT made from their botched testing are useless. No performance improvement at all when used incorrectly does not tell us anything. If they had tested it correctly, and found a slight improvement in performance then it means they are on to something for the niche market they are going after. Which I assume is people with lots of money that want to squeeze the most performance as they can out of their system. Even if this version is not worth it for anyone that can afford it as you can get better performance with the newer card, what they actually release might be if it targets the current gen cards at the time of release.
But they still have to start somewhere with hardware they can get their hands on to actually do some R&D on their product ideas so a prototype being made for the 3090TI does make sense even if the product targeting that now does not.
Either way no good conclusion can be drawn from LTTs review but that also wont stop their review from hurting the company potential future customers. So is really a shitty thing for them to have done all round.
Honestly, the prototype as it stands is a product no one should buy. But it is also a product only 1 person could buy (and that was a mistake…). It is a very expensive for what it is and anyone that has that kind of money to spend on a cooler is going to want the latest graphics card, not the last years model. So as a product for the 3090TI it really does not have any real market.
But it is only a prototype. And if they made one for the 4090TI instead it would have a niche market again. Development of these things takes time and they are only a very small company - no telling what they will bring to market in the future but I think it would take less time to adapt what they learnt from this prototype to one for the newer cards wont take as long. Maybe they might even need to target the next gen as their first actual market.
Either way, the conclusions that LTT made from their botched testing are useless. No performance improvement at all when used incorrectly does not tell us anything. If they had tested it correctly, and found a slight improvement in performance then it means they are on to something for the niche market they are going after. Which I assume is people with lots of money that want to squeeze the most performance as they can out of their system. Even if this version is not worth it for anyone that can afford it as you can get better performance with the newer card, what they actually release might be if it targets the current gen cards at the time of release.
But they still have to start somewhere with hardware they can get their hands on to actually do some R&D on their product ideas so a prototype being made for the 3090TI does make sense even if the product targeting that now does not.
Either way no good conclusion can be drawn from LTTs review but that also wont stop their review from hurting the company potential future customers. So is really a shitty thing for them to have done all round.