Off topic: Kyle was one of the few CPU testers besides Ian of Anandtech (much later) that recognized the Utility of running benches at 720p to remove GPU bottlenecks. HardOCP is missed to this day.
This sounds so logical today it’s mind boggling that others didn’t come to this conclusion.
So you’d say that the answer to “how far can you throw them” and therefore also to “how much do you trust them” would be… “not at all?”