Is Tom's Hardware really better than AT?

[Zim]

Originally posted by: bradolson
Looks to me like a cheap ploy by Newegg to get thousands of people from the various sites to come to their site and (possibly) buy something while they are there voting.

Brad

Sounds like good business to me! BTW, I voted for Tom's Hardware because they tend to cover items more interesting to me. I would trust AT more though, since THG seems a little biased at times.

If this is OT let the mods move it to OT, rather then fill it full of "in before..." etc.

 

[Spark2Life]

I got so excited about this Hot Deal, I had to edit... now, where is that EDIT tab???

 

[moonfish]

no. tom isn't better by any means. pretty much everything i've boughten at his recommendation has been a mistake. and the mistakes have been painful at times. he does review things once and does a fair job of it. but he disregaurds price and product support after the article is written. often things he rates as top notch aren't going to do that well later on.

 

[moonfish]

oh, forgot the hot deal part. The "hot deal" is a good place to read reviews of hardware before you buy it. I think one of the best places is the hardware forums at amdmb.com.

 

[Ionizer86]

Have you looked at the article on Xmastime 03 CPUs? The grammar is like horrible!

 

[neonerd]

I like AT much better....i've never liked Tom's Hardware

 

[rickon66]

I did my part, I voted for Anandtech at least 3 times in the past few weeks. I like the forums at Anandtech, BUT Anandtech just does not do very many reviews. The quality of reviews is good, there just is not many of them.

 

[carpenter]

Thanks Killa, you did good. And instead of giving you a bunch of sarcasm for trying, I'd like to wish you a merry Christmas.

 

[Pudgygiant]

Every voter from the winning forum gets a gift

That makes it hot.

OK, so I lied.

Why isn't CNET first? IMO they're good, just a wider range of products.

 

[SpideyCU]

Originally posted by: SgtZulu
Another idiot gets an internet connection

THANKS AOL!

I'm sorry, however wrong this thread may have been, it was worth it for me to see this post. Bah ha ha ha.

 

[Bas2000]

Originally posted by: weepul
lol, looking @ newegg's other poll:

Who makes the BEST router?
D-LINK
EDIMAX
GIGAFAST
LINKSYS
NETGEAR
TRENDWARE
OTHERS

im thinking what happened to cisco or 3com?

//krunk (^_^x)

it's who makes the best consumer router aka for home users

do you really think 99% of the home users can config a Cisco to do the job?

I voted for dlink !

 

[Bas2000]

Tom's site sucks.

HardOCP and FiringSquad do great reviews too

 

[wluk]

Originally posted by: KillaKilla
Actually, I posted it here hoping it would get a bit more traffic, or atleast fresh traffic, for voting.

I think the mods are thinking the same thing that's why they still haven't locked this. For the tech review part, I voted for Tom but the forum here is better.

 

[JameyF]

Originally posted by: KillaKilla
Actually, I posted it here hoping it would get a bit more traffic, or atleast fresh traffic, for voting.

I don't think that is why this forum is here. Show me the hot deal.

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: JameyF

Originally posted by: KillaKilla Actually, I posted it here hoping it would get a bit more traffic, or atleast fresh traffic, for voting.

I don't think that is why this forum is here. Show me the hot deal.

 

[Ionizer86]

Why isn't CNET first? IMO they're good, just a wider range of products.

The thing with sites like CNET and ZDNET is that they take the computer to be one part. You don't get objective reviews of this video card. vs that one or this hard drive vs. that one if they're comparing entire systems from Dell, Gateway, VoodooPC, etc. They're good for other peripherals like printers and scanners, yes, but they suck for individual parts that we like to buy (mobos, ram, CPUs, etc).

 

[SSibalNom]

Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon

Originally posted by: Pothead

Originally posted by: KillaKilla
Actually, I posted it here hoping it would get a bit more traffic, or atleast fresh traffic, for voting.

:disgust:

yep

-_-;

 

[Pothead]

Umm yeah nordlaw, encourage people to post where it doesn't clearly belong



From nordlaw posting in OT:

Results after my vote:

Anandtech: 30.31% 23006 votes
Tomshardware: 32.47% 24641 votes

Somebody willing to post in Hot Deals and take a beating?

One of you more senior members, perhaps?

I'd like to see us win this.