Omg, I was reading through THG (first time) and can you say biased?

[Script Kiddie]

:eh?:
And they did a review of heat sinks...
praise for heat sinks that can't keep an ath 1400 below 80c?

[ShadowFolder]

piece of crap...
my aluminium coolermaster on 1800+@40C idle :D

i think, they forget the thermal paste! :p

[Script Kiddie]

maybe...
but they are supposed to be credible or something?

[youngbuck]

Sounds like a bunch of idiots to me? The editor wasnt doing his job either.

-YB

[Script Kiddie]

All over the site I find stuff putting down amd cpus.
Anyone know of an unbiased hardware site?

[cmcquistion]

The most unbiased hardware site I have ever come across has been www.overclockers.com. I'm not kissing a$$. I really have great respect for this website and the people who run it.

tomshardware, questionable. I read it sometimes, but you have to take some things with a grain of salt. I built my first good Athlon system with recommendations from tomshardware. It was good advice. I got an ABIT KG7-RAID. That was one of the best motherboards I have ever owned. It still runs and overclocks like a champ.

[azhari]

Ok, I've braced myself for the flames :D

To be honest, the best site I've seen for reviews is (and no link ;) ) ]-['s site. Don't take me wrong, I like our home, but at the other site (:D ) you can find tons of reviews on tons of stuff. The number of links to reviews are huge, and you can always find something about what you want to know.

Be kind when you flame :p

[Bruno]

I prefer AMD (bang for the buck) biased sites.

intel stinks of monopolistic crapola and overpriced crap.

[azns_kickass]

You want the most biased AMD site?

It used to be www.vanshardware.com, but that got shut down, so now the title goes to...

www.amdzone.com :D

As for the least biased, IMO, www.xbitlabs.com and www.aceshardware.com is pretty good.

[Top Hat Theater]

I'm rather partial to anandtech myself. Lately, they've had a large AMD Me banner running across their site.

~THT

[rjscsi]

One thing THG proved back when WIN Bench marking was used to rate video cards (no games) was that some designed the card specifically for the bench mark. They are still a reliable source of information. Their opinion may not be your own but some of the reports you have to take with a grain of salt.:)

[Talyn]

u know i have something to say about this.
we all know about the sysmark debacle,
in sysmark 01 athlon beat the crap out of p4
so bapco releases sysmark 02, funny, the tests athlon was good at are no longer part of the benchmark, they were replacecd with tests that favor the pentium 4 being ran twice as part of the benchmark, obviously this makes p4 look better than athlon.
so everyone finds out and gets angry, well i was angry to.
then THG comes out with a post picking on 2 other website owners screaming they are biased?
THG needs to make sure its glass house is clean before they throw stones, i have not seen 1 single reccomendation for athlon, stories for AMD and AMD products arent there either, instead its like "intel this, intel that, rambus this, rambus that" with maybe an occiasonal AMD or AMD related product article mixed in for looks
So THG is biased toward intel. thats their choice, but they dont have the right to attack other websites who seek to offer enthsuiasts a different and unbiased opinion.
I used to read THG everyday untill i saw how THG decided that instead of helping the tech community find middle ground over the battel of sysmark02 that its owner (tom pasbt) would use the occasion to flame 2 other people who liked AMD.
I sent THG an email, i was very curteous, and i requested a reply.
i never got one, what i did get tho was THG saying they got a 3.6ghz p4, which after inspection of the serial shows it to be a 2ghz p4 with the old core design.
a plug for everyone to buy intel.
so that said i think THG sucks, i used to read them daily now i dont bother, im perfectly happy coming here to overclockers.com where at least the rfeviews are unbiased, honest, and the writers devote their effort to giving us the best articles they can
all the while with facts, not being biased either way.

This is a good site and ive read it for a long time, just yesterday joined the forums, sorry if i stepped on anyones toes with that post but im tired of being silent and being nothing more than "a hit" on someones page
i dont know who owns this site (Overclockers.com) but if you read this, you have the best site and reviews ive seen, please keep them up.

[garasaki]

THG is a farking joke

Simple as that

If you believe a damn thing you read there, you're an idiot.

Think for yourselves people...forums are the way to go for input anyway!

[cmcquistion]

In their defense, they've had a few good articles and reviews. Problem is, you have to read between the lines when they're reviewing anything Intel/AMD related.

In all of their reviews of the KT33 and KT400 chipset, they never once mentioned the fact that you could unlock your CPU and run it synchronously with the memory.

5 or 6 articles at least. They presented all kinds of numbers but in the end, always had to hand the prize to Intel, never mentioning or presenting any benchmarks showing what an AMD processor could do if it was unlocked.


This is especially weird, since they have a rather decent guide to unlocking AMD chips. They even have a downloadable video of the procedure.

[papounet]

some years ago, I used to read THG quite often. I got plenty of good advice from it on MB or on CPU.

Then around the time that a story was run about the Pentium III 1.x Mhz that was released too soon. I begun to loose interest in their more and more numerous benchmarks which couldn't relate to my own perception of relative speed of CPU and machine.

At that time I was considering replacing a PII 350@400 with a celeron @650, which according to their bench would have been nicely more responsive. What I discovered was that Seti@home was slower and that many high-end apps were also sluggish.
I RMAed the Celeron

This taught me to take what they wrote with a grain of salt.

Their coverage of AIT/NVIDIA and AMD/Intel has become IMHO
either biased or unhelpful (why go allover the top for 5 FPS more if it is 3% increase ) or unconclusive (too many metrics, no recommendation).

The Bapco Sysmark controversy (or lack thereof, as it died) was the last thraw. I wrote to THG editorS and to Tom direclty and got no answer.

too bad.

I read form a few sources and agglomerate the facts.
Opinion unbacked by data is at times untertaining but in truth is close to worthless