This week on Tom's Network Guide
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__aawwih8715
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"This week we overclock the latest NIC's, and do a torture test to our site -- We will be linked to at slashdot."
Re: This week on Tom's Network Guide
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JagEsquire
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This actually has me laughing on the floor.
New site about Networking and the site is down. I lost my trust in Tom when he stopped making an informed decision and started saying that the people that advertise with him have the best products. Launching a Networking site that can't stay up under load just makes me laugh even harder and will make me never come back.
It's about time Tom branched into Dating
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Anonymous Coward
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Imagine TomsDating.com? He could rank all your potential mates with a variety of benchmarks, and even try overclocking them.
Re:It's about time Tom branched into Dating
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Sexy+Bern
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Was it because of your 3.5" floppy?
I'll say it.......
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USAPatriot
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I'll say it because no one else will. Tom is an ass.
But more importantly his reviews suck! I haven't even looked at this one but i venture to guess it's at least 15 pages, milk that advertising cash cow, tom!
If brevity is the soul of wit, then you are one dumb mother fucker Tom.
Now for the informative part of by rant:
try www.hardocp.com or www.anandtech.com or www.ac eshardware.com
all 100% better than tom's
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Slashdot Moderation: From positive to terrible in 2 "insightful" posts.
Re:Networking,
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Informative
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.
New methods for testing net gear
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__aawwih8715
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Maybe tom will test new networking gear by being linked to by slashdot everytime he has a roundup.
Re:Networking,
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inode_buddha
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Maybe he could pour some liquid nitrogen on it and make it go faster?
-- C|N>K
First review summary...
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Tony+Hoyle
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· Score: 5, Funny
"In our benchmarks the 3C905C performed poorly, giving only 99.95Mb/s in our benchmarks. In contrast the FA311 (praise be to the advertisers) gave a flawless 99.99Mb and it definately the gamers network card of choice"
"The fact that the rcom 3C905C stops if you put it in a microwave to 10 minutes then stamp on it, means that the FA311 (praise be to the advertisiers) is the only usable network card in its class"
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.
/.ed - it is more like
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HashDefine
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TomsNotWorking.com
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.
Re:Networking,
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Serveert
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· Score: 5, Interesting
After reading his horrific review of Opterons I got the picture really quick: he doesn't know his head from his ass. Naively I emailed him asking for clarifications, it has been a month and he hasn't responded yet. Aceshardware and even anandtech are much better, more thorough and actually know what they're talking aobut.
-- 2 years and no mod points. Join reddit. Because openness is good.
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But can it help me network a beowulf cluster?
"This week we overclock the latest NIC's, and do a torture test to our site -- We will be linked to at slashdot."
Imagine TomsDating.com? He could rank all your potential mates with a variety of benchmarks, and even try overclocking them.
I'll say it because no one else will. Tom is an ass.
c eshardware.com
But more importantly his reviews suck! I haven't even looked at this one but i venture to guess it's at least 15 pages, milk that advertising cash cow, tom!
If brevity is the soul of wit, then you are one dumb mother fucker Tom.
Now for the informative part of by rant:
try www.hardocp.com
or
www.anandtech.com
or
www.a
all 100% better than tom's
Slashdot Moderation: From positive to terrible in 2 "insightful" posts.
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.
Maybe tom will test new networking gear by being linked to by slashdot everytime he has a roundup.
Maybe he could pour some liquid nitrogen on it and make it go faster?
C|N>K
"In our benchmarks the 3C905C performed poorly, giving only 99.95Mb/s in our benchmarks. In contrast the FA311 (praise be to the advertisers) gave a flawless 99.99Mb and it definately the gamers network card of choice"
"The fact that the rcom 3C905C stops if you put it in a microwave to 10 minutes then stamp on it, means that the FA311 (praise be to the advertisiers) is the only usable network card in its class"
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.
TomsNotWorking.com
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.
After reading his horrific review of Opterons I got the picture really quick: he doesn't know his head from his ass. Naively I emailed him asking for clarifications, it has been a month and he hasn't responded yet. Aceshardware and even anandtech are much better, more thorough and actually know what they're talking aobut.
2 years and no mod points. Join reddit. Because openness is good.