Looking for quality computer parts review site

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treelovinhippie

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hi

Any links for good quality and noob-friendly sites that list just about every computer part/accessory (including images, description, specs and reviews/ratings)?

... and also doesn't sell anything or list prices of competiting stores?

Just that I'm starting a basic computer business and I want to be able to direct people to details of the product when I give them a quote... but don't want them seeing cheap online prices on that site and simply buying from them lol.

Any ideas?

thanks
 
One way to avoid a customer from seeing online prices is to save links that go directly to the product manufacturer's own site. There you have the product overview on one page and specifications on another. For reviews you run web searches on a specific product to find any articles or blogs on them. Other sites will have benchmark comparisons between products. These are the types of sites where the only time any price is shown is on the suggested retail price for the most part. Once in awhile they may refer to a vendor if the site has pc related sponsors.

Note: This type of discussion is better in the "Off Topic" section.
 
OK, I know you didn't want sites that sell stuff, but honestly, I like getting my reviews though newegg. They are from actual users, and many times, quite a few of them.

If I'm looking for other reviews, I don't have a specific site I look at. There are so many out there, I just google for the device.
 
It's unbelievably hard to find a site that is consistently unbiased. The only thing I can suggest is going to a site with user reviews, but that has already been mentioned, and C|Net.

Sites to avoid:

HardOCP
Tom's Hardware - Intel fanboy (the biggest loser of them all. The guy is a dentist for pete's sakes.)
Anandtech - AMD fanboy.

All three of them are sold out. They will say whatever it takes to get free stuff from the manufacturer.
 
X-Bit Labs is good, very unbiased. They also go into technical aspects of products. THG is really biased, and they don't know crap... I love how they said the X1900 had 48 pixel processors when the review first came out.

Anandtech is decent IMO, I like X-Bit Labs better, but they're definetly less biased than THG and they put out alot of reviews.

Tom's Hardware - Intel fanboy (the biggest loser of them all. The guy is a dentist for pete's sakes.)
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More like a fanboy of whatever's newsest and most expensive... just read their Core 2 Duo performance review, they basicly say that Intel has beaten AMD in every aspect. Where as before that, every AMD product beat intel according to them.
 
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SirKenin said:
All three of them are sold out. They will say whatever it takes to get free stuff from the manufacturer.
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Don't you know that is the name of the game there! :P For the "big favor" they are intend on promotion more then actual product to product scrutiny with above board benchmarks. Their benchmark's are geared to make "their sponsor's" product come out on top.
 
PC eye said:
Don't you know that is the name of the game there! :P For the "big favor" they are intend on promotion more then actual product to product scrutiny with above board benchmarks. Their benchmark's are geared to make "their sponsor's" product come out on top.
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Ed zactly. All three of those crap websites I mentioned are notorious for it.
 
This is why I will jump at times when someone is pushing one video over another due to some review they saw. You will hear the... "The reviews say... blah... blah... blah" crud that doesn't see actual performances under various conditions. "Their" model has to be "No. #1" in everything according to one or two games?! I bet I could run HL2 half way decent on the old Asus V9520 128mb AGP card I ran for awhile on the old Socket A board.
 
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