THG Debuts Networking Guide 191
fist_187 writes "Tom's Hardware Guide has opened their new site Tom's Networking. The name pretty much says it all."
A list is only as strong as its weakest link. -- Don Knuth
Re:Networking, (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Not too good for their main audience I guess (Score:5, Informative)
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 (Score:4, Informative)
The more slashdotted the site is, the more I wanna view it!!!
Here's the google cache version of THG [216.239.41.104], for the impatient people like me.
Re:Domain pollution; timhiggins.com? (Score:2, Informative)
TimHiggins was a good site for quite some time for reviews and info on wireless and embedded firewall solutions
Re:First review summary... (Score:5, Informative)
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 (Score:4, Informative)
Then you may wanna go to sites like arstechnica instead.
Re:I'll say it....... (Score:3, Informative)
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... (Score:5, Informative)
Tom's is a fraud. (Score:5, Informative)
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 [aceshardware.com] - Kyle from HardOCP's
comment about Tom's misleading video.
Found in the Ace's Hardware Forums.
Link Two [aceshardware.com] - 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.
Looking for a Hardware review site... (Score:3, Informative)
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 (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Networking, (Score:5, Informative)
tomsnetworking.com/
This isn't so dumb after all.
Re:Tom's is a fraud. (Score:3, Informative)
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.