Tom´s loosing it... so bad it´s hard to believe.

[Greebe]

That was a joke. It was neccessary to change the latency prior to bootup (hardwired) for most Athlons to actually reach the speeds they could achieve.

[MPR]

The reviews on Tom's are so clueless they are funny to read. I love when they show all the benchmark graphs that show one thing and then in their conclusion state something that totally contradicts all their benchmarking.

I also love it when they declare a product like a mobo the absolute fastest when it only beat the other boards by 2% on some tests while being slower than the competition on other tests.

Warning: Stepping on Soapbox

They don't even really test the products they review. Earlier this year I bought an Asus A7V333 based on all the great reviews (not just Tom's). RAID was broken on every board until a BIOS fix came out and USB2 had to be disabled if you wanted a stable system. They don't do real world reviews only a few benchmarks

Standing down

[Maggi]

If Tom hadn't disqualified himself a quite some time ago already, http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/02...4_3600-14.html would make it hands down.

Just look at the upper table result and carefully read the author's statement right underneath.

Of course, Tom didn't write this article, but imho it's his job to crossread what's about to be posted on his site, just to avoid major disinformation.



Also notice that in some charts the XP3400+ is not even listed at all ... makes me wonder why.
(nah, not really wondering, it was just a rhetorical phrase on my part)

[Novdid]

Those kinds of "mistakes" occur all the time in Tom's reviews.

[mutz]

...on the other hand, I recently bought my new mobo and now a new printer based on THG's reviews. I found some the subjective insights more useful than the tech data. I'm happier than a pig in shit with what I went for...

[Maggi]

the problem is that you won't know beforehand how accurate his views are and when he tolerates those kind of major goof ups, that we spot every now and then, I can hardly recommend anything published on his site.

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Maggi
the problem is that you won't know beforehand how accurate his views are and when he tolerates those kind of major goof ups, that we spot every now and then, I can hardly recommend anything published on his site.

What about when he wasn't so biased/paid/sponsored? Were his reviews good back then?

[Maggi]

definately, yes.

At least, back then I never spotted these kind of irregularities and I learned quite a lot form his site.

It was mainly his site that encouraged me to go for OCing my very first Celeron300A and modify its VCore.

[Wombat]

Yeah, Tom was good back then, but that was a long, long time ago.

[KeiFront]

I can't remember one review written by himself in the last year, only that silly rant (against vanshardware, etc.).

[TdB]

I must admit, I don´t see the big flaw in that preview.

I mean, he benches a 3.6ghz p4 and concludes that it is fast.

how is that wrong?

[Maggi]

Originally posted by TDB
I must admit, I don´t see the big flaw in that preview.

I mean, he benches a 3.6ghz p4 and concludes that it is fast.

how is that wrong?

read more carefully ...


but one hint is in my first post to this thread:

Originally posted by Maggi
If Tom hadn't disqualified himself a quite some time ago already, http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/02...4_3600-14.html would make it hands down.

Just look at the upper table result and carefully read the author's statement right underneath.

Of course, Tom didn't write this article, but imho it's his job to crossread what's about to be posted on his site, just to avoid major disinformation.



Also notice that in some charts the XP3400+ is not even listed at all ... makes me wonder why.
(nah, not really wondering, it was just a rhetorical phrase on my part)

[TdB]

you mean the bench where the p4 has a close second place, and the text says, "A similar result is produced in the Cinema test: the 3.6 GHz P4 is in the lead. " ?

[mutz]

...well, I've usually checked ten other places before I go to THG, or I check ten other places after THG...

[ZokesPro]

I usually check THG when he decides to tear appart something and then takes pictures of it!

Oh, yeah, and I do what mutz does!