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Tom on the Athlon (And an Intel Conspiracy?)
ninjaz writes "Tom from Tom's Hardware has published his first Athlon Motherboard Reviews, where he states "I know for a fact that Asus has designed a highly excellent Athlon-motherboard" , which Asus has mysteriously deciding against selling. This amidst rumors of Intel threats of artificial BX chipset shortages. "
You conspiracy nuts are gonna love this one. It does look fishy.
www.anandtech.com
... I've never had doubts about it. I have always liked AMD, and they seem to have produced a truly superior design this go round. What with Merced-delays, they may be able to make a dent in Intel.
..is a fairly respected site. I use it on occasion. Anand seems pretty dedicated, as well as being humble and level headed. (traits many claim that Tom lacks)
As for the K7
That is, if they can get motherboard manufacturers to cooperate...
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Interesting. When I was picking components to use in LHS computers, Tom's site was one of my most valuable resources. I found that the information there was generally pretty close to what I found myself when I evaluated things myself.
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His reviews of the K6-2 and K6-3 were not complimentary, especially slamming the slow floating point units (and noting that a Pentium 233 MMX did floating point faster than a K6-2/333). If he's on the take from AMD, it's a new phenomenon.
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First, before we all go screaming "Death to Intel" it would behoove us to confirm that Intel actually has done something wrong (which, at first blush, it sounds like they did). Independent confirmation (e.g. another manufacturer who was pressured in the same way coming forward) would be nice.
Second, if this is confirmed and Intel is playing dirty (which wouldn't surprise anyone I don't think), we as Linux users have alot of other excellent hardware alternatives, including (but not limited to) the Dec Alpha, Sparc, and Power PC platforms. If this really upsets you, use one of the non-intel alternatives to run your OS, and let Intel know exactly why you've done so. Money speaks much louder than whining -- if unethical behavior has a negative impact on a company's bottom line, you can be reasonably sure that the behavior will change.
On the other hand, Intel has (probably correctly) surmised that any outrage we may feel will be quickly buried beneath the euphoria and hype as we all run out to get our hands on the latest Merced, whenever it's released. In a society bent on rampent consumerism, political, ethical, and moral concerns vanish beneath the glitz of a new toy claiming our attention in the next 30 second spot.
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If your going to complain about other peoples ignorance...
I'd buy a heatsink shaped like a drunk lustful goat.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
Know what would have been a perfect reply? Quoting the last paragraph of his article verbatim. The one before his, ah, retraction.
Wow. I've seen plenty of opinionated articles from Tom before, but I always figured he was factual if a little hot-headed. I'm done with him now, and won't be recommending tomshardware any more to people looking for information before buying.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
What if /Tom/ is on the take from AMD? From the tone of the story, that'd make sense. See? Conspiracies arn't that hard to propagate .. ;)
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Everybody, lets scare Intel. If I have to see one more commercial with men in silvery suits dancing because their processor is so gosh darn fun, or commercial that tells me my 'processor makes the internet faster', I'm gunna cry. The word on the street is that the Merced is going to do your laundry and pay your bills for you too.
The K7 has scored very very well in benchmarking so far (all reviews I've seen have beaten out the P3, and MSI/FIC/Giga's MBoards are apparently just as fast as AMDs referance board), so it looks like AMD has done exactly what it said it was going to do - increase FP performance. If I were in the market, I'd buy a K7 when they came out. Not only because they look like they're the head of the pack right now, but I really believe AMD deserves a pat on the back. From the looks of it, they assesed their weaknesses, and fixed them.
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