They promised, collected money from people, and it has now actually been nearly five years since the Gamers Nexus team announced uncompromising fan testing. Yet those tests still have not materialized, and public questions on the subject are often ignored by the creators. As always, there are multiple possible scenarios as to what may have happened. In the following article, all that remains is speculation about how things may be unfolding.
We already wrote one blog on the topic of fan testing and Gamers Nexus… more than three years ago. Since then, not much has changed—in fact, nothing has changed, except that more time has passed.
- One reason Gamers Nexus may still not have started fan testing could be that it genuinely is not a simple matter, and they are still working with measurements from the Longwin wind tunnel and studying how to handle the data. Five years is already a long time, however, so while this remains a possibility, there are also other potential scenarios discussed in the following points.
- Fans may simply not be a topic capable of generating sufficient clickbait—the kind of content on which Gamers Nexus thrives. That would mean they understand revenue from this topic would not be high enough to cover costs, and therefore they prefer focusing on other subjects more capable of igniting stronger passions among the audience.
- Even if we assume neither the first nor second scenario is the core issue, fans as a category are an extraordinarily complex topic to fully understand, and drawing any conclusions could potentially diminish Gamers Nexus’s standing—at least in the eyes of the technical community. That community often remains silent anyway, whether to avoid putting individual companies in customers’ disfavor or to avoid conflict with fans of sensationalized PC hardware coverage.
- There is also relatively substantial competition with which Gamers Nexus could find itself at odds, something that—especially in the era of expanding AI chatbots—might likewise fail to produce the desired results.
Naturally, there are more possibilities, and if you have information we may be overlooking, additional input would be welcome. Some things may have been missed, some not fully considered—that is natural. One thing is certain, however: as of today, Gamers Nexus is not delivering any data—the data it promised when collecting financial support from backers for test lab equipment. So if you can contribute additional factual clarity, this initiative may, we believe, prove socially useful. You can share your perspective below this blog in the comments section.
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš
My guess is using Longwin turned out too complicaded for GN crew and nothing else much matters then. And I assume this forgiving option as somebody who more dislikes than likes them. These guys have passion, but are not good at testing anything and from time to time hit the wall of science – that’s an example. Then I don’t want them to provide their signature in a bad way “experimental charts”, because it’s a waste of time.
Yeah, they spent on Longwin plenty of money from their supporters, but ones feeling bad about it need to understand one thing – man can’t guess if he is able to learn using complex scientific equipment, especially knowing little and willing to take time to learn. Most likely the case here.
Btw, as somebody in similar situation, so who lacks knowledge to interprete Longwin data, but still haven’t bought Longwin, I wonder if it’s even a right device to test and compare fans or something more suitable to design and fine-tune them? Aris from HWBusters use it and maybe these are an amateur impressions, but understandable noise-normalized results sometimes seem strange to me and in general I prefer HWCooling approach due to simply seeing how given fan performs on real life restrictions and plenty of noise levels.
May i suggest contacting them directly? If you can get Steve on the phone then maybe he’ll provide some proof that this isn’t the fan reviewing equivalent of a kickstarter early access garbage fire
Just don’t forget to say “Thanks Steve!”, he’ll be more inclined to answer this way
Personally my only complaint about GN is that they did not do enough investigation and “clockbait sensationalization” on the Raptor Lake disaster, ime my first 14900K bought early on didn’t even last a single day before crashing on idle or specific code patterns with random chance