You people need to learn something... Tom is a stupid corporate whore. He'll say anything that'll make his sponsors happy, even if it's at the expense of those sponsors competitors. He uses his website's popularity and previously good reputation to try and brainwash people like yourselves into believing his insane nonsense.
He's not saying the P4 is a faster processor because of his "test results", or vice versa. He's saying it for his sponsors. They're PAYING HIM to pimp their products. And about those "test results"... I'd be willing to bet my schlong that no tests even occured, and any photos taken from his "tests" are just from when he pulled some spare parts out of a dusty cardboard box, made them look all nice for the camera, snapped some photos, applied the THG watermark to them, and there you have it, photos from the "test lab."
Don't get me wrong, THG used to be a good site... until Dr. Pabst let the money and popularity get to his head too much, that is. Just look at that article he did a while back about the overheating Athlon problem (as well as how Intel's chips didn't have this problem, of course), and how he said he SINGLE HANDEDLY notified AMD about this and SAVED THE COMPANY FROM DESTRUCTION. That's a damn lie, AMD had already known of the problems with the thermal diodes in their latest thunderbirds, and had already issued a recall of the chips before the said article was even posted on THG.
Oh, and did anyone notice that the above mentioned article showed pics of the AMD processors' HSF units being held on by holding clips? What friggin HSF units of those sizes use HOLDING CLIPS? Even if such beasts exist, I don't think anyone would be stupid enough to use them seeing as nearly EVERY motherboard has those holes around the processor sockets for fastening the holding brackets which the reliable HSF units use.
Well guys, it seems he's gone pro-AMD for now, but who's to say how long that'll last. I'd bet its probably proportional to whichever chip maker presents him with a better offer when he rolls out another article of pure bullshit.
Last but not least, don't double post. Click the submit button ONCE, and ONLY ONCE. Double clicking leads to lots of problems when doing pretty much anything on the web, especially online shopping, where you run the risk of getting double billed if you double click the submit button.
That is all.
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