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Note that Tom's Guide is not the same thing as Tom's Hardware despite the same owner. It's where all the clickbait and low quality content of Future plc goes.

by MikusR 6y ago

utopcell 6y ago
Second this. The quality difference between the two is staggering.
loceng 6y ago
That's considerate that they realized they shouldn't compromise the quality of the one site?
- ksec 6y ago
  Yes it is one of those thing Tomshardware and Anandtech had problems with in their early days. They dont report rumours, only Facts and in-depth reviews. But rumours gets the click and ads revenue.
  - jorvi 6y ago
    Sounds like the system Buzzfeed has where the clickbait branch feeds the (legitimately good) news branch.
    - loceng 6y ago
      Well, and so they're simply piggybacking on the hard work done - creating a clickbait version on top of quality articles and important topics. Interesting business model - I'm certain they browse Reddit throughout the day for content as well.
  - rasz 6y ago
    >only Facts and in-depth reviews. and manufacturer propaganda. Tomshardware made somewhat famous burning Athlon video (later revealed they used board with disabled/non functioning thermal cutout) during prime Intel pentium 4 payola timeframe. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hot-spot,365-4.html https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hot-spot,365-4.html "AMD did not bless the Thunderbird core with ANY thermal protection whatsoever." In reality AMD socket certification required thermal cutout, same as Intel for Pentium 3. AMD processors do include thermal diode just like Intel ones. "Intel's older processor is also equipped with a thermal diode and a thermal monitoring unit" is a lie. Pentium 3 thermal throttling is performed by the Bios just like in Athlon case. Serendipitously tomshardware picked broken Siemens motherboard for AMD system as recommended by Intel, imagine that. They published a non-retraction catching Siemens in a lie and showing proper AMD setup safely shutting down. Of course you cant read it because its burried down, excluded from wayback machine and deadlinked http://www.tomshardware.com/column/01q4/011029/index.html http://www.tomshardware.com/column/01q4/011029/index.html Anandtech wasnt better 20 years ago. They used to publish rave Pentium 3 SSE reviews https://images.anandtech.com/old/cpu/intel-pentium3/Image94.gif https://images.anandtech.com/old/cpu/intel-pentium3/Image94.... using a piece of Intel commissioned software as an independent test. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=65247&start=20#p734738 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=65247&start=20#p...

Note that Tom's Guide is not the same thing as Tom's Hardware despite the same owner. It's where all the clickbait and low quality content of Future plc goes.

by MikusR 6y ago

Note that Tom's Guide is not the same thing as Tom's Hardware despite the same owner. It's where all the clickbait and low quality content of Future plc goes.

utopcell 6y ago

Second this. The quality difference between the two is staggering.

loceng 6y ago

That's considerate that they realized they shouldn't compromise the quality of the one site?

ksec 6y ago
Yes it is one of those thing Tomshardware and Anandtech had problems with in their early days. They dont report rumours, only Facts and in-depth reviews. But rumours gets the click and ads revenue.
- jorvi 6y ago
  Sounds like the system Buzzfeed has where the clickbait branch feeds the (legitimately good) news branch.
  - loceng 6y ago
    Well, and so they're simply piggybacking on the hard work done - creating a clickbait version on top of quality articles and important topics. Interesting business model - I'm certain they browse Reddit throughout the day for content as well.
- rasz 6y ago
  >only Facts and in-depth reviews. and manufacturer propaganda. Tomshardware made somewhat famous burning Athlon video (later revealed they used board with disabled/non functioning thermal cutout) during prime Intel pentium 4 payola timeframe. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hot-spot,365-4.html https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hot-spot,365-4.html "AMD did not bless the Thunderbird core with ANY thermal protection whatsoever." In reality AMD socket certification required thermal cutout, same as Intel for Pentium 3. AMD processors do include thermal diode just like Intel ones. "Intel's older processor is also equipped with a thermal diode and a thermal monitoring unit" is a lie. Pentium 3 thermal throttling is performed by the Bios just like in Athlon case. Serendipitously tomshardware picked broken Siemens motherboard for AMD system as recommended by Intel, imagine that. They published a non-retraction catching Siemens in a lie and showing proper AMD setup safely shutting down. Of course you cant read it because its burried down, excluded from wayback machine and deadlinked http://www.tomshardware.com/column/01q4/011029/index.html http://www.tomshardware.com/column/01q4/011029/index.html Anandtech wasnt better 20 years ago. They used to publish rave Pentium 3 SSE reviews https://images.anandtech.com/old/cpu/intel-pentium3/Image94.gif https://images.anandtech.com/old/cpu/intel-pentium3/Image94.... using a piece of Intel commissioned software as an independent test. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=65247&start=20#p734738 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=65247&start=20#p...