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Jon wrote:I do remember this, but it wasn't a few months ago, it was 8-10 years ago.
When Tom (The German Doctor) sold the site it lost a lot of it's street cred. I stopped visiting it around then and started visiting a small site called The Tech-Report (dashes and all)
derFunkenstein wrote:Tom's is an interesting data point, assuming you can find actual content on their site (most of the links appear to be ads on their home page now).
Lots of folks don't trust them. But their benchmark numbers tend to line up with others', though there are always outliers. Outlyers. Results that don't fall into that pattern, and it's easy (for me at least) to chalk it up to variance on games that have to be tested manually or whatnot.
Scrotos wrote:I believe at the time it was related to Intel and AMD. This was when the Athlons were destroying the P4s and somehow Tom's not only gave the P4's glowing reviews but also had a lot of Intel-specific advertising.
Scrotos wrote:I believe at the time it was related to Intel and AMD. This was when the Athlons were destroying the P4s and somehow Tom's not only gave the P4's glowing reviews but also had a lot of Intel-specific advertising.
And if it were not that, it was an ATI/nvidia thing of the same general concept. That's where the selling out/lack of trust stemmed from. It's long enough ago that it'll be hard to datamine google to see the original complaints.
Chrispy_ wrote:Nobody has yet come up with a response to TR's inside-the-second analysis and the community here is probably the best public tech-community I've found on the web. (The Meadows/Neely/SSK love-triangle never ceases to amuse me!)
greenmystik wrote:Chrispy_ wrote:Nobody has yet come up with a response to TR's inside-the-second analysis and the community here is probably the best public tech-community I've found on the web. (The Meadows/Neely/SSK love-triangle never ceases to amuse me!)
Gotta agree. Been lurking for a couple years as well and finally joined the forums this year. Been very helpful with all the questions I've had. Now when people come to me with their PC problems I direct them straight to the TR forums.
canoli wrote:Does anybody remember writing - or reading - that Tom's Hardware.com had "sold out" and could no longer be trusted to give impartial reviews?
I know I read that somewhere, I think it was here. It was a few months ago, about the time AMD was releasing its Trinity line (i think). I'm pretty sure it was just a random comment by a TR member and not one of the writers for this site - but I'm not 100% sure.
Jon wrote:I do remember this, but it wasn't a few months ago, it was 8-10 years ago.
When Tom (The German Doctor) sold the site it lost a lot of it's street cred. I stopped visiting it around then and started visiting a small site called The Tech-Report (dashes and all)
vargis14 wrote:Edit:
If i recall correctly way back when toms was where i 1st found the modified drivers for my ATI and NV cards but i cannot remember what the name of the modified driver's were .....too many cobwebs in brain. But i remember they worked great.
Buub wrote:I remember when he was a rabid 3Dfx Voodoo fan. That is, until nVidia came out with the TNT/TNT2. All of a sudden nVidia could do no wrong and 3Dfx could do no right. It was sickening to see how blatant it was. It's just one example of many.