Bad foruming experiences

[CA19100]

 

[Capt Caveman]

Ban!

 

[boomerang]

What do you guys think? Do you believe my username is truly too provocative?

Yes.

Do you believe I should keep my mouth shut and keep my opinions to myself because they are not popular?

Yes

I am thinking of starting my own forum at this point. This way i can discuss my opinion openly with my friends and others without the fear of an ip banned.

Excellent idea. I even have a name you can use for it. "AMDOCD Forum"

I've been subjected to quite a few mean comments and harsh bans that i found to be very hurtful.

Safe spaces are getting scarce lately.

 

[DigDog]

i'm going to go on a limb and take a wild guess as to how the bans happened;

AMDGUY: AMD BEST!

everyone else: actually, no, Intel best.

AMDGUY: AMD BEST! AMD STOMPS!

everyone else: here, have some charts. see the price / efficiency results?

AMD GUY: AMD BEST! AMD NEVER DIED, IT ROSE OUT OF THAT STEEL AND KILLED THE TERMINATORS!

mod: ban

 

[DaTT]

AMD is terrible. They were once comparable, but no longer. bye now.

 

[dmcowen674]

Is this 1995 all over again?

 

[DaTT]

Is this 1995 all over again?

Oh......I hope so. The 90's were great!

 

[snarfbot]

look at this gigantic wall of text, someones got a lot of feelings

 

[olds]

OP, how old are you?

 

[Ichinisan]

Why do mods want to shut down arguments anyway? That's activity on the forum and they should encourage it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, grow a thicker skin. I've been through massive Usenet flamewars, I'm pretty fire-retardant now.

Anyways, AMD is OK, for someone on a budget, but I would hesitate to recommend them to anyone these days, mostly due to their lack of performance / watt, which has a lot to do with inferior process technology, due to being tied to GlobalFoundries.

My personal recent observations:

I bought several Lenovo laptops recently. One model is a Lenovo B50-45, with an AMD A6-6310 quad-core "small core" APU. 4GB of RAM, and I upgraded the 500GB HDD with a 240GB SSD. The other, was an IdeaPad 100s, with an Intel Atom Z3735F, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of eMMC storage. (Like an SSD, but both of those are fixed, and not upgradable.)

I find myself liking the Intel Atom setup better, quite frankly. It was only $120,and the AMD was $200. The AMD is more expandable, comes with more RAM and storage, and a user-removable battery. But the Intel is only 11.6", and has twice the battery life, and is more convenient. I've also had issues with the Wifi on the AMD for some reason, I don't understand why, unless that model is just flaky?

Either model is fine for forum-browsing, but I get double the battery life with Intel, and a more convenient size. I don't do Office though, which would probably be better with the AMD quad-core, as I believe it performs a bit better.

Oh, and the OS on the AMD rig is Win7 Pro 64-bit, which is loads better than the Win10 Home 32-bit on the Intel Atom laptop. Yet, I still prefer the Intel, for form-factor and battery life.

 

[IronWing]

I shop for video cards based on the pictures on the box covers. I don't care about speed, memory, noise, heat, pixel pipelines per parsec, or any of that other crap. I want a card that will show CGI hooters and thongs in full glory. If the box shows some hulking hulky alien with an eye patch and a gun the size of JC's buttplug, it ain't a card I want. If it shows an alien babe with a mechanical bra and electronic veins running from her thong to her laser shooting high heels, I'm in.

 

[Possessed Freak]

NoBrandLoyaltyIsBest

 

[twinrider1]

.... Do you believe my username is truly too provocative?...

Yes.

Consider this a lesson in brevity.


Now, why are you so attached to a single thought? There is no best anything. Let it go, or you'll surely find yourself batting 3 for 3.

 

[Ichinisan]

I shop for video cards based on the pictures on the box covers. I don't care about speed, memory, noise, heat, pixel pipelines per parsec, or any of that other crap. I want a card that will show CGI hooters and thongs in full glory. If the box shows some hulking hulky alien with an eye patch and a gun the size of JC's buttplug, it ain't a card I want. If it shows an alien babe with a mechanical bra and electronic veins running from her thong to her laser shooting high heels, I'm in.

Their marketing folks really do think this is the way it works

 

[TwiceOver]

Cyrix forever yo!

 

[arcenite]

Most here have been around long enough to have had AMD chips, loved them, and they in fact were the best you could get. Sadly that is not true anymore. I myself had several, but made the swap from an Opteron 165 to a Q6600. Then from a Q6600 to a 2500k. Because of the lack of competition, I think I still have several years to go before I see the kind of improvement I saw from Q6600->2500k, let alone Opteron 165 -> Q6600 -- for a similar price point. This is the reason I root for AMD.

You will not find a reasonable person here, regardless of what brand CPU he or she has in their rig today, that doesn't look forward to AMD being on top again; for multiple reasons.

However, I ask you to seriously consider why you are so hell-bent on getting other people to understand, or even care about, your position on AMD.

 

[bradly1101]

Yes you can, just take my word for it as a note to yourself in the future.

I try to be kind at all times. Who wants that karma?

 

[biostud]

Ban!

this

 

[zinfamous]

i'm going to go on a limb and take a wild guess as to how the bans happened;

AMDGUY: AMD BEST!

everyone else: actually, no, Intel best.

AMDGUY: AMD BEST! AMD STOMPS!

everyone else: here, have some charts. see the price / efficiency results?

AMD GUY: AMD BEST! AMD NEVER DIED, IT ROSE OUT OF THAT STEEL AND KILLED THE TERMINATORS!

mod: ban

man, I miss that guy.

 

[Markbnj]

I don't really care about your user name, but I have an evil and childish sense of humor, so I would ban you just so that when people read your screed they can look up and see "banned" under your user name. I mean, that would be funny, right?

Oh, and the same guys who own Tom's Hardware own this place, so next time you flee a battle check the map first.

 

[brianmanahan]

Cyrix forever yo!

aww yiss

i bought a cyrix back in 96, and it was the bomb. great pentium alternative.

 

[zinfamous]

I am obsessed with the hardware. I root for AMD in the lower budget range, but thats it. In the GPU market, i am indifferent and i can swing both ways really, be it Nvida or AMD. In cpu market, i would not recommend 9590 over an i5. People that I argue with however.... They simply make fun of me for speaking for AMD regardless if I have valid reasons or not and then just call me a fanboy

The problem here is that your username is not AMDisTHEBESTinCertainVALUECategorieswhenCOMPAREDTOcertainINTELCHIPS.

It is: AMDisTHEBEST.

The message that you think you are sending is not the message that you are actually sending. So, yes, the username is stupid and there is a legitimate reason that no one over there, or over here, would think you are not a fanboy.

 

[brianmanahan]

The problem here is that your username is not AMDisTHEBESTinCertainVALUECategorieswhenCOMPAREDTOcertainINTELCHIPS.

i tried to create a user with that name, but stupid vbull cuts it off at "AMDisTHEBESTinC"

 

[Mayne]

I"m using an amd dual core