Some Incoming Website Overhauls (Patreon)

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to update you all on some of the stuff we're working on outside of the main YT channel!

First up, we've been continuing to bring content to the website since we re-launched it in November of last year. I think we just got around to getting all the Zen 5 reviews published in written format. If you're not familiar with how we're handling that, the short version is that we have someone on staff (Jimmy Thang, former Maximum PC writer and formerly worked under my good friend Gordon Mah Ung) converting all the video scripts into articles. The conversion mostly includes keeping everything exactly as is, but cleaning it up for written publication. Some things don't cleanly translate from spoken to written. He also does a lot of work staging the charts, the images, and presenting it cleanly and with bookmarked/anchored links everywhere.

Anyway, he just got done going through all the Zen 5 content. As we've been doing, they are exact replicas/unupdated/unchanged adaptations of the videos. If you've seen the videos, there's nothing new there. It's mostly for long-term reference.

The reason I bring this up though is that we are now also working toward running another "Mega Charts" page, similar to the ones we have for CPU coolers and CPU power consumption. This will contain all the most recent benchmarks we have for CPUs. It will be on the prior version of Windows 11 (before the latest update). We'll work on re-running everything with the newest version as soon as we switch back to CPUs, which will likely be for Intel's Arrow Lake or AMD's X3D CPUs. We don't have dates on either yet, but I'd expect this year.

In the meantime, I want to at least just get one massive charts page live with everything on it, as we have something like 50 CPUs tested. Videos just don't give enough vertical space to fit them all, but the site does.

Outside the website, I've also been trying to figure out what to do with some of our interviews. We have a lot of interviews/discussions that are good, but with how YT behaves, they wouldn't perform well (and may even hurt) the main channel these days, or they've lost their timeliness due to other delays. I was thinking of starting up GN Extras again to just run them all over there. They're great discussions. It's just a challenge of how much we want to 'fight' YouTube for views and channel performance. Normally, I just post whatever I want and let it work itself out. That works pretty well. In this instance though, I think we have enough stashed interviews to basically create a mini series on a secondary channel. It's all industry people, so the topics/subjects span from case design (and case designers) to CPU design and architects.

Open to your thoughts on those. Maybe it makes sense for us to start a small seasonal series or something with just extra interviews.

Also, I'm happy to be done with the EK story now. It was huge and a new format, but we're moving back into reviews. Up next, we have the DAN Case A3-mATX wood panel case review, the Antec Flux Pro (which is actually the new 'best' on our charts for thermals, so that's exciting), and the Tryx LUCA, which was shown at Computex. We also have a review of the Corsair i500 pre-built coming up.

Thanks!