About flawed reviews, reading
Kyle Benett's joke of a review just makes me very very very sad.
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTYwNyw0LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
How in the world can such an ignorant, incompetent fanboy like he is, be at his position, "informing" people about new hardware?
First he uses 4 and 6 GB for the intel systems, and 2 GB for the AMD system and says this about it:
"Yes, they have different amounts of RAM. NONE of our test are dependent on RAM volumes and never come close to getting into a cacheing situation. I thought about ramping the Phenom II up to 4GB, but it would have likely made it a bit slower in the scoring. I used 4GB in the C2 system because that is the same stick we have standardized testing on all the i7 systems. The Corsair 1600 DDR3. Had we gone with 2GB in the Core 2 we would have likely gotten a bit faster scores, at least that has been my experience."
Then, to screw things up even more, he tests phenom with 800 mhz ram instead of 1066 mhz because "he can't get it to work". Obviously he gets 1600 mhz memory to work for all the intel systems.
His review is filled with the most biased stupidity in every form and color possible, and then then when someone on the forum asks whether Kyle has something personal against someone at AMD, kyle explains:
"The venom is pointed directly at AMD as a company. I will tell you exactly where it came from. A LOSER PART CALLED PHENOM II. Maybe it will be good for Wal-Mart boxes, but I will not be telling any of my family to buy one. AMD deserves a kick in the teeth for bringing this to the desktop market. Should have just called it Phenom scaling up and shut its mouth instead of contributing to a climate of expectation and again letting us all down. Phenom II, what a joke. "Dragon?" You have to be kidding me."
Dear Kyle, there is a reason why
every single website on the net gets better Phenom II scores than you.
It's because
every single website on the net is more competent at testing hardware, than you are.
Calling the Phenom II a loser part, after your utter failure of a review, is ironic in a sad way.
The only loser here is you, and the people that take you and your website even slightly serious.
On a brighter note, I think the techreport and anandtech reviews are quite balanced ones, that give a good idea of the product.
Did madshrimps make a review yet?