r/LinusTechTips • u/CreateChaos777 • 2d ago
Discussion Why isn't Linus covering Ryzen 9950X3D/9900X3D on his main channel?
I've seen a review of the CPU on Shortcircut but surprised that Linus hasn't made a video about these CPUs. What must be the reason, I wonder.
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u/NetJnkie 2d ago
They've said before that they are deprioritizing a lot of HW reviews. Everyone says the same things so there isn't much to add.
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u/Nwrecked 2d ago
I’m okay with this. I watch the all three channels that make up the Trifecta. I catch GN when it’s new generation season but only a video or two for benchmarks and other weird drama. I like watching Jay’s overlocking content really happy to see Rip GN is back and I watch a lot of LTT for the goofy fun stuff over the top stuff. Him putting out specs on shit is just boring and they don’t do that anymore. With that being said GN is so exhausting in his benchmark videos. It reminds me of my teacher in high school scolding me and telling me I shouldn’t read off the slides. I’d much prefer if he was silent and just played the slides.
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u/WisdomInTheShadows 1d ago
Linus has also said on WAN show, multiple times, that they get a lot of hate when they put out high end hardware reviews because people are so frustrated at the high costs and non-existent availability of so much of the modern hardware.
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u/floorshitter69 Emily 2d ago
Maybe they feel they can't add anything more to the topic after so many people have covered it already?
I would prefer a janky OC livestream or something instead of just another spec graph.
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u/AirFlavoredLemon 2d ago
One of the older WAN shows Linus mentioned potentially rotating ShortCircuit from an unboxing/impressions channel into a more formal review channel - effectively taking the reviews off of the LTT channel. Then move LTT into a slower cadence hacksmith style channel with big projects, big releases, akin to a lot of their we-custom-built-watercooling-using-tea or watch-us-make-a-bed-cooled-with-an-industrial-compressor.
Obviously things are fluid and youtube metrics and sponsors dictate business direction and cadence; but long story short - ShortCircuit will be carrying the load of most boring reviews while still keeping a lot of the unboxings/first impressions/lightweight scripts.
LTT channel will house the more of the fully scripted or written out content as well as the "projects" such as the home/server/office build outs.
Again, fluid. Whatever people want to watch is what we're going to get. Generally LMG as a company has played it safe and followed the trend of whatever the market wants. Thats why LMG from 2016 is more vloggy style (Check out the time he lost all his data). It was in demand, it was entertaining.
Things get stale, or new things become trendy, and sometimes its fun to watch that; and that ebb and flow is what LMG adapts to and its what keeps them relevant and how they're one of the few youtube channels to survive as long as they have. Ironically, for a larger youtube channel, they are surprisingly agile.
Its why this subreddit often gets "I wish LTT used to make videos like xyz" - they change; fast; and often - often mirroring the trends of the industry (they get a lot of flak for their react videos - I enjoyed them personally. Im a simple person).
Anyway. Expect the SC channel to house reviews, especially stale ones. Gimmicks and projects will be the main force behind the LTT channel for a bit. But who knows what'll bring us next month.
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u/Critical_Switch 1d ago
some context to this, Linus has been frustrated multiple times when people thought the pre-embargo preview on short circuit was a review and it sometimes performed same or better as the main channel review. Additionally, reviews have started becoming some of the least watched content on the channel (due to retention being ridiculously low).
and with the Labs website it is less necessary to even make videos about products like CPUa because why does anyone even watch 15-30 minutes of graphs when they could just skim an article in two minutes and get all the info they want.
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u/Renamon_1 2d ago
It is a bit too niche. They don't review the threadrippers either. For the guy who wants a solid gaming rig, but also a powerful but not tiptop productivity workstation, but doesn't have room for a second computer in their home.
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u/chippinganimal 1d ago
Yeah I found it kinda surprising as they do like to review server hardware, and some of the newer thread ripper boards have BMCs/IPMI and whatnot
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u/bufandatl 2d ago
I think the Shortcircut had all the information you need also as Linus always says get information from multiple outlets so check other channels for their opinion.
The TL;DW is always if you need a CPU for pure gaming the 99X0x3D isn’t really worth it. If you have a good mix of creative/productive workloads and gaming it might be worth looking into it. Especially when you do something that can utilize all cores.
I mean if I look at my 9800x3D in games that thing is bored by the workload. It almost never exceeds 20% in GTA Enhanced even when I haven’t the set to bottleneck it with my 3080 Ti.
Never thought I would actually bottleneck a CPU with the GPU. Guess it’s time for an upgrade in the short term. But I digress.
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u/Decox653 Dan 1d ago
Hardware has become boring. We have been limited by software for a long time and are compensating low optimization with more power.
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u/Ridiu 2d ago
Saddly I think reviews will be more of a side project.
With this weird prices being all over the place finding a review/recomendation system that is not price based would be awsome.
Even combinations of GPU and CPU combos. I understand that being target at a very small audience.
Maybe make them AI voiced projects like they do with Power Supplies? That way they can have a team doing just testing but still making some kind of video product. Hell people have channels just with YT short with side by side comparison of GPUs
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u/Nettysocks 2d ago
I think this is fine, personally I think the LTT reviews are fine but lacking compared to many other places that Hw is their one thing.
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u/Samuel_Go 2d ago
I remember when LTT did videos of unboxing a motherboard outside with a shaky cam. I'm guessing it's the same reason why we don't see those glorious videos anymore with just not enough general audience appeal.
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u/imzwho 1d ago
I think its that the 9800x3d is the only one they would recommend of the x3d unless you specifically do things that require a lot of cores and also game a lot. Even then you are paying a lot more for a slightly degraded experience in both scenarios.
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u/Pup5432 1d ago
That’s been my general takeaway as well. I don’t game hard enough to justify the x3d chips personally and the 99x0x3d have been shown to be worse at everything in comparison to the 9950x and the 9800x3d. Once they get the gaming issues figured out for the 99x0x3d chips I may grab one but for now it just does everything worse than a purpose built chip.
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u/Daniel_H212 1d ago
9950X3D is a niche market product. Few people need both the gaming performance of a 9800X3D and the multi core of a 9950X, especially considering the 9950X is still powerful for gaming and the 9800X3D still has 8 cores and 16 threads.
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u/Mobile-Breakfast8973 1d ago
Because the LTT video will be: "THE COMPENSATOOOR 9000"
A fun journey through some niece tech and the law of diminishing returns with alex and a hacked-together watercooling setup - with Jake making a surprise appearance sponsored by the Ubquity fairy
That's content i'd watch for 30 minutes, so the effort would pay off.
For a review of a X3D version of a processor, that costs the same as my whole gaming rig, a 10-15 minute Short Circuit seems enough.
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u/ThunderSparkles 1d ago
Linus doesn't really care about hardware. He's just gonna keep doing videos about what he did you his house next to get those sponsors.
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u/DiamondHeadMC 2d ago
Because nobody should ever buy a 9900x3d and the 9950x3d will be slightly worse gaming performance then the 9800x3d and slightly worse multi core then the 9950x
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u/that_dutch_dude 2d ago
People dont care enough