Author Topic: The Time To Upgrade (Read 3310 times)

Fabio · « **Reply #15 on:** May 28, 2006, 12:13:31 AM »

... agreed

although toms showed amd ahead of intel in the gamming benches.... unless i read them wrong...?

sully! · « **Reply #16 on:** May 28, 2006, 10:50:48 AM »

Quote from: "TekieB"

i've found thg is VERY biased

I know you're a [H]uge [H]ardOCP fanboy though, and with the war that's been going on between those two for such a long time, can you really call yourself unbiased? Not saying one is better than the other, I think they are both very informative and thorough in their testing and you can't discount one or the other completely.

Just my two copper discs.

zx2slow · « **Reply #17 on:** May 28, 2006, 12:37:22 PM »

Quote from: "F3ar0n"

I'm interested to seeing how AMD is responding to cornroe cause obviously AM2 isn't gonna cut it. Now even though all the benches released have all only been tested by Intel themself and no other's so who knows if they hold up. Still, Amd is gonna have to pull something big to keep up with the scores that Intel is flashing aroundf

I wouldnt trust intel sponsored benchmarks at all. the conroe may be better butI dont think it will be close to the benchmarks intel is touting.

TekieB · « **Reply #18 on:** May 28, 2006, 01:42:35 PM »

I will admit i'm a [H]ard ocp fanboy, but THG loves anyone that sponsors them/sends them free stuff. I've found hardocp to be a little more critical of the whole industry

The Nstuff · « **Reply #19 on:** May 28, 2006, 03:38:02 PM »

Never really read overclockers before. I'll have to bookmark them and check them out to see how they compare to the other sites I get my info from.

I used to read tomshardware as i'm sure a lot of others have either until they became fanboys or got sick of the bias or just don't really care.

Techreport.com has become my major source of new hardware reviews. Awesome site and very detailed and thorough reviews and analysis on new products. The guys that post there are also a great group of guys who know what they're talking about but don't act like 10 y/o's. I go to other sites every now and then to read a review on something and I always feel shortchanged as they never present the whole picture. Tomshardware has always been very detailed and i like the background they usually present. Its the commentary on what they are reviewing that keeps me away however. Techreport has the same amount of detail and background, but without the bias.

sully! · « **Reply #20 on:** June 07, 2006, 01:10:26 AM »

Quote from: "nstuff"

YellowTab has been developing Zeta (beos but without the name). I haven't played with it nor have I heard anything about it other than that they are working on it. I think there are some other opensource projects underway as well. My guess is, just like the beloved Amiga, Beos is dead and those still working on it don't realize the corpse is cold already. Arg, now i brought up Amiga <reminisces>

I checked out Zeta. Found a LiveCD for version 1.1 (1.2 is most current, but no LiveCD). I wasn't overly impressed, just a little nostalgic.

But it got me to reading and researching and I came up with something much better, the Haiku project (http://haiku-os.org/learn.php), an open source revival/recreation of BeOS R5. I downloaded the latest nightly build and was able to run it in VMWare with some help from the Haiku wiki. Because it was a VM, there wasn't any hardware acceleration (killing a lot of the media experience that BeOS is so known for), but still, it gives me hope that I'll be able to use BeOS again in some capacity in the not too distant future.

*tear* Be....we've missed you....