THG Debuts Networking Guide

fist_187 writes "Tom's Hardware Guide has opened their new site Tom's Networking. The name pretty much says it all."

Comments

Re:Networking,

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe Tom and his writers just need to learn _anything_. Props for being one of the first doing what they do but what they write is generally utter crap and often bias is obvious. And Tom's "business insights" are cringable.

Re:Not too good for their main audience I guess

[the unbeliever]

The article and video in question was demonstrating poor AMD design quality, in that the AMD proc kept on going until the point of meltdown once the heatsink was removed, the p3 locking up completely, but no damage to the processor, and the p4 clocking itself down.

Of course you can't run a pc without at the very least a heatsink on the CPU, but some die more gracefully than others.

Signed,
A Dedicated AMD FanBoy, regardless of heat issues.

Google Cache

[armando_wall]

The more slashdotted the site is, the more I wanna view it!!!

Here's the google cache version of THG, for the impatient people like me.

Re:Domain pollution; timhiggins.com?

[turtleshadow]

Wierdly the link to www.timhiggins.com now refers to tomshardware.

TimHiggins was a good site for quite some time for reviews and info on wireless and embedded firewall solutions

Re:First review summary...

[Jeff DeMaagd]

I don't know about 100 cards, but there are notable differences in how well gigabit cards operate, differing by as many as hundreds of megabits a second of performance at times. And wireless networking components can be tested for packet rates and speeds given differing distances and base stations.

I do admit that there is too high of a risk of advertisers having an influence on review methodology.

Re:Damn slashdot's influence to hell

[the uNF cola]

I go to your site for good reviews

Then you may wanna go to sites like arstechnica instead.

Re:I'll say it.......

[Propaganda13]

Yeah, but the brains behind it is Tim Higgins.
He made a great site called www.practicallynetworked.com which I believe he sold off then he went on to make www.smallnetbuilder.com,which he seems to have somehow combined with Tom.

What will happen? I don't know, but at least give him a chance to go bad.

This used to be...

[bwass24]

Tom's "new" site is actually a buyout of the informative and well written smallnetbuilder.com. (www.smallnetbuilder.com) Too bad :( Apparently selling out to Tom was more satisfying than continuing to do a good job.

Tom's is a fraud.

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, the problem with that Intel vs AMD CPU
cookout video that Toms showed a while back was
not AMD's fault at all. They claimed the AMD CPU
will continue to run until it fries itself, while
the Intel CPU used Speedstepping to cool itself
down if needed.

The problem with the video was that the CPU *DID*
have an on core thermal diode... but Tom's
PURPOSELY used an Athlon based motherboard THAT
DID NOT SUPPORT IT. It was the fault of the
motherboard maker and Tom's unsurprisingly
selective choice of that motherboard... and that
was why the CPU fried itself. Hello? Has anyone
SEEN those CPU Shutdown Temp settings in the BIOS?
I turned those on in my test rig and COULD NOT
fry my AMD CPU.

So much for Tom's "in depth" reporting. The guy's
a total sell-out. (Which is obvious) But since he
did the worst possible thing in the reporting and
journalistic point of view: Changed the credits
on articles previously written by another writer
just to spite him. (Van Smith over at Van's
Hardware.) Bad. I have absolutely no respect or
trust for Tom's anymore and never will because
of these two incidents... and there have been a
few more. I'm sure other /. posters will
eventually point them all out.

Fuck it, I'll link the examples myself.

Link One - Kyle from HardOCP's
comment about Tom's misleading video.
Found in the Ace's Hardware Forums.

Link Two - Post taken from AMDZone
posted on Ace's Hardware Forums about Tom's
Hardware modifying Van's articles to credit a
different author. Forum responses results in
some additional info. Read through the threads.

Re:Tom's is a fraud.

[florin]

While it's certainly true that Tom's website has been overtaken by other more in-depth websites when it comes to authoritative reporting, your claim that Tom deliberately engineered the test to make the Athlon look bad is in fact completely baseless.

There was a very valid point to that test and that is that the AMD Athlon XP and MP CPUs rely on the motherboard to step in and prevent CPU damage in case of overheat, whereas modern Intel chips protect themselves. It just so happens that at the time of the test there was exactly one motherboard actually available for purchase that had the AMD thermal protection circuitry installed, and that was the exact Siemens board used in Tom's test. I know, because at the time I was *waiting* to be able to buy a board with said support. And what this test showed is that A) thermal protection didn't actually work reliably at the time and B) *all* other boards available would've burned up the MP as well. Just like the Thunderbird did in any case.

As for the Van Smith incident, I'm not sure what happened there, but I could understand why THG would want to distance themselves after discovering what a complete and utter nutcase they had on board.

Looking for a Hardware review site...

[OneArmedMan]

..... that is funny, informative and written by someone that acutaually knows what they are talking about without all the bullshit that you usually get. try DansData.com

well just thinking, Dan tends to review more generic stuff than most guys, but he does have a sense of humour, and is very straight foward with what he thinks of things.

for thoes that didnt realize

[ResQuad]

for thoes that didnt realize, that "comming soon" page is for /. refer only.

Re:Networking,

[bwdunn]

The site is up and working. He's just pointing anyone linking from Slashdot to another index page. Try typing in the URL directly in a new browser:

tomsnetworking.com/

This isn't so dumb after all.