Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
How does it mess things up exactly? Why should the source of a review sample have ANY impact upon the conclusion? Let me answer that: it SHOULDN'T.
Right, it shouldn't. But that doesn't mean that it DOESN'T. I'm not saying that every site which gets their samples from the manufacturer are doing this, but some are. And their reviews are complete POS, yet people don't give a rats ass about it. No one cares. It happens all the time.

It is up to the reader to make a decision regarding which article to believe and which ones should be ignored.
It should not be up to the reader though. You don't(hopefully) write reviews in a way that it is up to the reader to figure out the conclusion.

What I am saying is that the reviews should be about giving a hint to the user about the performance. Right now it seems that there are lots of bigger sites which are giving out false information of performance of certain products. The quality of reviews sucks. Doesn't take too long to find a few reviews which use not up to date drivers, not up to date software etc. And then, when people act like +/- 10 % performance difference is a big deal for the end user, it gets bloody.