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The Anandtech review is also out. I had them as pretty balanced at least in the past.

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Their Desktop and Mobile CPU reviewers both quit.

surely Anandtech is in a different category - why would the PR dept of AMD or Intel mess with Anandtech.

sadly, the same can't be said for hundreds/thousands other much smaller reviewers.

As this specific review is from Phoronix - do you have some proof that their reviews are (heavily) biased? I'm looking at reviews in more details only when I want to buy something, other than that I skip them or just have a quick look. I haven't did any serious comparison either, but I remember Michael Larabel from Phoronix criticising various parties. Many of his reviews are basically measures/benchmarks with some summary on top of that - his benchmarking methodology may be or may be not flawed, I don't remember him shilling for AMD. AMD has probably some goodwill from the Linux community since they open source or provide various specs for their graphics card. At least that used to be the case.

I was just passing on something claimed by the largest computer parts review site in China. They claimed that their site has been required not to release their review until tomorrow, the owner of the site further claimed that there are two batches of reviews and his site is in the second batch for obvious reasons.

See the url in my replies.

FWIW, at the AMD event in Texas last month where the Ryzen 7000 series was announced, everyone was given the same embargo date... Mostly all the US and EU reviewers there.

Maybe the China/Asia review briefings or so are going with a different date based on different retail availability or so? Hadn't heard of some reviewers getting a different embargo date, typically see that usually only for different geo availability or if getting a sample from a motherboard OEM / other partner and not the CPU company review embargo.

Could also be a TZ issue, where they have a clock time, and that clock time ends up ending up at different dates in practice.

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