what does tomshardware use to show their graphs?

[GoingUp]

Without going into a discussion about how much you hate toms or their reviews, please give me an answer as to what program Tom uses to show his graphs. I am benchmarking a bunch of systems at work and I would like to make up some graphs similar to his in appearance. The plain old excel graphs looks stupid and I want to add a little pizazz.

 

[Schadenfroh]

i hate toms and their reviews

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
i hate toms and their reviews

thanks moron. just what I was looking for

 

[dullard]

You can make those exact graphs in Excel.

Use the Fill Effects options and you can get a gradient just like Tom's on the background (He appears to use a one color fill - a custom blue - set all the way to dark with horizontal gradient using one of the variants) as well as on the individual bars.

Use the Colors to individually color each bar, the text, the axis, and the gridlines.

Use the Style option to make the gridlines dashed.

Add data lables (using the value) to get the value printed next to each bar. Then color the data label (use 'none' for background and border, and then change the font color to yellow).

 

[johnjbruin]

dont go to tom's - an example pic of what you are talking about?

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: johnjbruin
dont go to tom's - an example pic of what you are talking about?

In 12 minutes I could duplicate this slide and type my arcane decription into Anandtech above. (With the exception of the icons for Tom's and the P4, but those shouldn't be too hard to crop out and put into Excel as well.)

 

[Jzero]

Check into JPGraph. I haven't used it myself but it's in a few things I use and it may be useful for you.

 

[not5150]

I could tell you... but I would have to kill you.

Nah just kidding, It's all in Excel.