Overclocking T-bird/Duron: plan 163, mod32, change 17!!!!!!!!

[cdrakejr]

I knew it. Here we go again. I'm putting this in a new post so it doesn't get missed in the other post.
Get out your silver conductive pens and head over to Tom's Hardware again.

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q3/000711/index.html

 

[Insane3D]

cdrakejr- I am already looking for a high-powered laser...
MUHAHAHA

 

[Ulysses]

If Tom Pabst was as competent or influential as he thinks he is, then he would have learned of these complications earlier and not published his silly piece about the A7V with the peekaboo dipswitches.

ASUS and AMD rolled him like a rubber ball.

I actually like Tom's Hardware, but I'm annoyed at this "Well, here's what I'm fiddling around with today kids" routine.

 

[Aboroth]

OK, so you are telling me that if you found out that early Thunderbirds and Durons could overclock well and easily with the right mobos, you wouldn't write an article about it if you could? How was he supposed to know what was going to happen next? Nobody told him anything.
Damn it, I sure am mad about him informing us of possibilities!!!

 

[Ulysses]

Tom is not a teenager hangin' at HardOCP - he holds himself out as a professional. He's supposed to act like a professional, do his homework, ask some questions and not just play shill for the manufacturers. All he had to do when they gave him the dummy board was ask a few pointed questions of the big boys, who if they respected him would have given him some honest answers. Instead, perhaps because he knew it would attract readers, he just ran with it. My point is proven by his flow of articles trying to convince people that he is really working on the issue even day by day.

They didn't give a sucker's board to Anand Shimpi, did they. Or if they did, you certainly didn't see a meaningless test of it.

If something like this happened with an Intel product there'd probably be a soccer riot in these forums.