Re:Networking,
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Anonymous Coward
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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
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the+unbeliever
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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.
This used to be...
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bwass24
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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.
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Anonymous Coward
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
Actually, the problem with that Intel vs AMD CPU
/. posters will
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
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.