Computer Hardware Keeps Failing: New GN Mini-Site, Ethics Statements, & GN Update

Hey, everyone! It's been a long time since we've done basically a direct update for the audience on GN in general. We tend to just focus on making the hardware/reviews content these days (with occasional pieces just for fun), but rarely do the old-school style updates on what we're trying to do. A lot of that is because we have more ability these days to realize those goals, so we try to just pursue them -- but it's nice to go back to roots and have a more dedicated discussion of "here's what we want to do and here's what we enjoy." The mini-site was just kind of a good excuse to make this video. It's also nice to put the ethics & ad statements down somewhere permanent, because it's hard to find the old videos discussing those things since they're so buried. Ultimately, agree or disagree, our main goal is that it's all out there and transparent so you know where we stand. The mini-site was really fun to build and, although we hope it doesn't require many additions to the Catastrophic Failure List, we do greatly enjoy that style of testing and can't wait to do more! Until then, it's back to reviews! FAILURE LIST: gamers.nexus/failure-list

GN needs a "Oh, it's on fire" shirt.

Steve is so angry at manufacturers he made a highscore list!

As someone who works a SEM tool in one of the "Team [Colour]" semiconductor companies, can confirm that SEM tools are almost always not in the budget. Would be really cool to see some of our work under the lens of the Gamers Nexus team.

You all have been helping me build systems for years now. Thank you to everyone at GN for being honest and reliable and providing the masses with some of the best hardware reviews and problem summaries possible. Can't wait to see what these next steps bring!

It's so weird to think you started 15 years ago... In 2008. Keep fighting the good fight for the consumer, and congrats on your continued growth and success, GN Team!

Your integrity and commitment to honest reporting is incredible. Something unfortunately rarely seen these days! Thank you!

GN continuing to lead the way, a huge thanks to the GN team for the hard work! The mini site is ideal for people like me that bounce in and out of the tech sphere every few years. Finally, I/we have a single point of reference for what’s going on at a given point in time and more importantly, who’s on Steve’s shit list and what they did lol

Just when I think GN can't get any better... Cheers, guys! 🍻

arctic cooling went above and beyond twice over in my opinion.. not only did they do what you mentioned they also pulled every cooler off the shelves that they could and sent brand new updated coolers back to them then fixed the recalled coolers and sold those for 60% off.

In all honesty, reaching out to you proactively when they created a TLD with your brand in it is freaking awesome.

8:20 thanks for making this series, shout out to Canada Computers for an absolutely painless RMA after this video was released 💜💜

Wow, I really appreciate the hard work that went into generating and defining the vision for the company/channel and the effort to create a website detailing the practices, ethics, mistakes/corrections, etc. The transparency and objectivity are both unparalleled and appreciated.

This Channel’s success is a great example of “do the right thing for the right reason, good things happen.”

Amazing stuff as usual. Really appreciate y'alls contributions to accountability and product quality in this space that's so often rife with rumor and tribal knowledge. I love the idea behind the new website! I would love to see it possibly grow one day into something more. My first thought when you began talking about the idea is that it would be amazing to have user profiles on the site. Users could create profiles with PC builds and attach part numbers. If there was to be an issue with any of the parts in your build, say six months, a year, two years, etc. down the line, the user would receive an email letting them know of a potential issue. Similar to how car recalls are handled. That would be a ton of work, no doubt, but the end result would be really cool imo. Anyway, hope y'all read this and keep up the amazing work!

Maybe failures like the Samsung 980 firmware kerfuffle should also be listed in the failure list. If someone doesn't keep up actively but does check the list every now and then, they can see even those failures/issues that have gotten a fix without a 3 part series and 20 minute Steve rant.

9:59 And that is partly why I was willing to pay the high price for a Fractal Torrent case for my build. I didn't need the size, but I love the design, and also wanted to show my support for a company that did failure recovery properly. It's just too bad that now that I can afford to upgrade my GPU, EVGA has stopped making them.

This channel just gets better and better. Thank you for all your hard work.

I am very happy to hear you going back to updating the website more frequently. I usually watch your content for many of the components and various other things you have tested over the years but when I went to build I always used your website instead, because I could just find one your charts and since you keep such good up to date data it helped greatly. Very exciting indeed.

GN has established itself as having levels of integrity, capability, and extremely detailed methodology that others can and should aspire to.