OK... when the rest of the computing world is reporting on Penryn and Nehalem (HardOCP, Anand, Arstech), I at least expect THG to do their own write up.

So where the hell is it? Were you not invited to Intel's little briefing? Now, even IF you guys do do a write up, no one's going to read it because everyone's already reported on it and given their own opinions. What could THG possibly add to the story now? Nothing. And if you weren't invited, I question the influence this site has (or lack thereof).

This is getting sad. The reviews are increasingly suckier and uninteresting. Most of the stuff posted is OP-Ed crap. Show me the hardware news and reviews damnit. This place's only saving grace is the Forums and TGDaily... TGDaily has shown major improvement, but the rest of the site is on a downward spiral. Get it together 'cause one of your oldest and most loyal fans is about to ditch this place. (Not that you'd care...)

[/done with my rant]

I ~~think~~ THG maybe out of favor with Intel.

The price/performance charts (while conceptually interesting and inherently quite useful) for example, seem almost deliberately skewed to make AMD look better.

No data on an E6300 or E4300 "Because they haven't had a chance to test them yet"..? - is this even remotely, vaguely, plausably believeable? - um.. no.... - The fact that these two chips DESTOY THG's contention that in the lower midrange AMD is a good deal based upon their price/performance charts seems just a little too convenient, and more like an AMD payoff of some kind.

Even amid the netbust crap they always test the D940, 950, etc when the E935, E945 etc are exactly the same speed as the D940, D950 (just no virtualizatiion) and cost 20-30% less money. The lowest end D9x5 chips, which while crap, are similar speed wise to low end AMD stuff performance wise and can be had very cheap, Tom's charts should reflect this reality rather than selectively picking and choosing what to include.

ANIMAL 8O .

you have a point.
maybe/it seems thg is getting more neewbified :?: :?

I know you should just leave and never come back.

an example above me

SO you mean that X2 isn't faster than PD yet slower than Core 2? That's what the curve shows. AMD has done what they could to position price/perf better in this situation, but the total lack of parity between the Core 2 prices and PD prices AT LAUNCH makes it impossible to really differentiate price/perf between the two companies.

I know you should just leave and never come back (and save us from all the BS you spew).

Of course they werent invited! Cmon Jesse, you were here 14 months ago when everyone knew this was a paid off AMD advertising site

yeah but 3 years ago they were the opposite

I hardly ever visit the site, I have this forum bookmarked in my "computer" folder right next to Xtremesystems. The last THG article I read was that server thing from mid march.

The AlphaMale is an interesting construct, almost ethereal.

Ditto here. The headlines rarely change anymore. This has been my primary site for years now to get the scoop on the latest stuff. It has been a big yawner for a while now.

The only news I see is how the website changed.

Ive only been a thg fan for about a year. First of all, the question of tech news or lack thereof seems appropriate, since me being not a veteran but more of a noobie, can selectively find good news, cutting edge announcements and then alert the fellow forum readers here. I realize that thg cant get the scoop on everything, but major announcements surely should be in the mix most times, which I like you find not to be. With this being said, I also want to say that reading the forums as well as an occasional storyt from thg has greatly increased my knowledge of hardware. For that I am thinkful. I hope that soon, with the coming changes from AMD/ATI Intel nVidia et al that thg is atop of information gathering and good interesting and informative articles to come.

1) I agree with you.

2) Isn't it sad in the first place that the most interesting things to talk about in electronics is 6+ months away? I mean, some new stuff has happened this year in hardware, but it's nothing to get excited about. The AMD690 chipset is new, but that seemed to barly garner a sneeze out of enthusiasts (so maybe it's not an enthusiast board, but don't you people have HTPCs too?). It's like C2D was crack or something 9-12 months ago and since then nothing measures up.

Even if Barcelona comes out before Q4 and performs as well as it says it will, is that incredibly interesting? Sometimes I wonder if it's just that the last year or so has been a tremendous learning curve for me regarding hardware, and now I'm realising that if it does what you need, cool. Maybe I should move on and start learning more about advancements in software or something else. Speaking of which, whatever happened to Vista's voice recognition system? I haven't read anything about it since there was a security problem.

3) I find the Intel press release very cool. It seems to me that AMD and Intel are converging on similar designs, overall. The differences between the two will be in the details (and manufacturing tech). I'm impressed to read about the IPC improvements in Penryn. Frankly, though, I'd need someone like Jack to discuss what the release means other than exactly what it already says.

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