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Originally Posted by Gizzmoe
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Originally Posted by XanderF
Well, while Tom's Hardware is overall crap (ENORMOUS Intel bias, and pretty healthy nVidia bias, too)
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I read Tomshardware for many years, I´m a big fan of AMD and ATI and I say that they are actually very objective and unbiased. When AMD/ATI was the best combination they praised them, now they praise Intel/nVidia because those companies currently provide the best solutions for high-end systems, and they have no problem recommending for example the ATI X1950 card as the best card of the $200 segment. Tomshardware really is a great place for everyone looking for hardware advice. |
You must have missed the series of articles where they had "unbiased" server testing of AMD vs Intel and had to restart the Intel server 6 times due to 'configuration issues' before it finally stayed up longer than the AMD server. Of course, the clear winner was Intel as it DID stay up longer. Never mind it had to be re-started 6 times to the AMD server's one.
Or the entire series of articles on how dangerous the AMD AthlonXP processors were - if you took the heatsink off them and forced the computer to stay on, they'd catch fire and burn down your house and kill your dog! Intel CPUs, of course, would NEVER do that (except the immediately previous generation, which they conveniently omit).
I could go on for pages, but it's rather here nor there.
It's certainly an okay site, but for 'objectivity', nobody beats FiringSquad, XBitLabs, Tech Report, or (to a lesser extent) HardOCP or Anandtech. (It's worth mentioning that, at least at one point or another, linking to Tom's Hardware was banned on all 5 of those site's forums due to the periods of intense journalistic dishonesty THG participated in.)
(And PPS - I don't have a bias against any of these vendors. We moved to Portland, Oregon a few years back - just a few miles from the Intel headquarters. Buying Intel is buying local jobs for me, so I do have a certain favoritism to them, perhaps offset by my interest in 'the underdog' AMD. In any case, the clear performance crown
at the moment is with Intel and nVidia , and I'd certainly recommend any new construction be a Core 2 chip with a GeForce 8800.)