Join us in welcoming Adam Vágner on board HWC today. Of the authors I know, he’s the most experienced with graphics cards. That’s what he’ll be covering. Thus, graphics card testing will be taken over by a tester who’s been doing it for a long time (and intensively). This is the approach we pride ourselves on and will continue to do so. There are plenty of “experts in everything”, but true specialists are slowly disappearing from the map.
Our paths meet again. Adam and I used to work together in the editorial office of the now defunct magazine ExtraHardware.cz. It was a beautiful time with never-ending speculations about what to do and how to do it for a better result. The old CPU cooler tests, the archive of which we also have here, were actually created by Adam. However, he comes to HWCooling to test graphics cards, although he will certainly make enriching contributions to other topics as well.
What does Adam’s arrival mean in terms of our functioning? Activity on graphics card tests will increase significantly, and multiple designs with the same GPU will be pitted against each other in detailed comparisons. Until now, this has not been possible due to time constraints, and with one GPU, there is only one graphics card in one design, one model, in the comparison database. But now this will change and you will also learn, for example, which of the available versions of the GeForce RTX 5080 (or graphics cards with a different GPU) is the “best”. You can also look forward to a flood of thematic analyses, which have been scarce until now. And most importantly, it will be under the guidance of nearly 20 years of experience in the field of graphics card testing and things related to them.
Having Adam take over my agenda in this way will also be beneficial for the “cooling” topics, for which this move creates more space. We are starting case tests again, and fan tests will be added more frequently as well. In October we will also add tests on Intel LGA 1851 and AMD AM5 platforms, which will expand Pavel’s measurements on Intel LGA 1200 platform.
Well, we’ll see what the future holds, but we’re already excited to have one of the most experienced graphics card testers on the internet join the HWCooling team. Now back to work! Now you know what you were meant to know, new graphics card tests with the new approach will be coming soon. 🙂
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš
So, this chapter has come to an end. Further GPU tests by Adam on HWC will most likely not continue. Thanks for everything! Knowledge is a very valuable commodity these days, and we’re not giving up—but we’ll need to pursue it in a slightly different way. 🙂