Another rant...

[kitkat22]

I have a few sites I frequent, this one being at the top, but the other is THG, mostly for the news and such. However, I did notice today a review of the P180. I thought the review was pretty much right on with what others have said about the case, except when he came to the comparisons of the CPU's. Granted this was supposedly an upgrade which included the CPU, but the thing that bothered me the most was the selection of the benchmarking program to measure CPU performance. He chose one. That's it, and based his whole remarks between a 4000+ and a 3.0Ghz Northwood on said program! I see serious flaws in the program selected and the number of benchmarks performed to measure CPU performance. I'm sure the program essentially measured clock speed as a high priority and, of course, gave the win to the Northwood. I'm not saying the Intel is a bad processor, it's just hard to believe the actual performance of both processors are right in line. Oh well, this is after all a rant. Post your thoughts.

Here's the linky:
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/200509191/index.html

 

[Maluno]

My favorite line:

Second, my P4s were old Northwoods and ran ridiculously hot. Even with a Thermaltake XP-90 heatsink and fan, the heat coming from the case was insane.

Lol, I'm sure _someone_ payed attention during physics... 😕

 

[Markbnj]

Hah...

"However, with the Athlon, the second client lags so badly that I simply can't auto follow. The client running in the background runs so slowly that the character falls behind and eventually stops following within seconds. I had this problem with the Intel chip, but it was never this severe. Perhaps it had to do with HyperThreading."

Yeah, that's it. Your bot won't follow you in EQ because of Hyperthreading.

 

[Zepper]

THG does pretty good reviews on PSUs and Cases - anything else is suspect.

.bh.

 

[l Xes l]

Originally posted by: Maluno
My favorite line:

Second, my P4s were old Northwoods and ran ridiculously hot. Even with a Thermaltake XP-90 heatsink and fan, the heat coming from the case was insane.

Lol, I'm sure _someone_ payed attention during physics... 😕

I'm sure_someone_PAID attention during english class... 😕

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: krnxpride83

Originally posted by: Maluno
My favorite line:

Second, my P4s were old Northwoods and ran ridiculously hot. Even with a Thermaltake XP-90 heatsink and fan, the heat coming from the case was insane.

Lol, I'm sure _someone_ payed attention during physics... 😕

I'm sure_someone_PAID attention during english class... 😕

science >> liberal arts.

 

[l Xes l]

Originally posted by: klah

Originally posted by: krnxpride83

Originally posted by: Maluno
My favorite line:

Second, my P4s were old Northwoods and ran ridiculously hot. Even with a Thermaltake XP-90 heatsink and fan, the heat coming from the case was insane.

Lol, I'm sure _someone_ payed attention during physics... 😕

I'm sure_someone_PAID attention during english class... 😕

science >> liberal arts.

me >>> u

 

[LxMxFxD3]

Heh, despite posting this to Anand tech here, I usually find THG a bit more unbiased. Even though I own amd and have for 3+ years now, I find Anand tech to be biased in this way.

In saying that however, this guy is an idiot. I don't know what kind of motherboard he put in there, but when i bought my ASUS SLI-premium and I was reading through it, it clearly stated it required the 4 pin "p4 ready" connector to the mobo or the computer would not start.

Maybe his mobo manual didn't say that.

But get this - my enermax 465VG is from 2001 folks!!!!!!! So, I dont know what the deal is with this guy bashing enermax. Very very odd.

 

[Zepper]

paid = payed, check your local dictionary. Paid is the lazy form - one less letter to type..

.bh.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Originally posted by: LxMxFxD3
Heh, despite posting this to Anand tech here, I usually find THG a bit more unbiased. Even though I own amd and have for 3+ years now, I find Anand tech to be biased in this way.

In saying that however, this guy is an idiot. I don't know what kind of motherboard he put in there, but when i bought my ASUS SLI-premium and I was reading through it, it clearly stated it required the 4 pin "p4 ready" connector to the mobo or the computer would not start.

Maybe his mobo manual didn't say that.

But get this - my enermax 465VG is from 2001 folks!!!!!!! So, I dont know what the deal is with this guy bashing enermax. Very very odd.

Yes, we Anandtech folks are biased because we like bang for the buck performance.

 

[Pythias]

Originally posted by: Zepper
paid = payed, check your local dictionary. Paid is the lazy form - one less letter to type..

.bh.

Who sayed that?