Hey!

It wasn't untill I was looking at the VGA charts today that I learned the following things:

1. AMD has done an awesome job increasing performance through driver updates lately.
2. Tomshardware.com is blatantly MISinforming customers in favor of nvidia because of the extreme slacking that is going on in updating the VGA charts.

Why is this task low priority??
The VGA charts mean nothing at this point.
I don't understand why the biggest hardware site gets away with this kind of slacking.

Because the admins at Tom's Hardware sit around eating poos all day

Well I understand that they are very busy with everything that is going on in hardwareworld, I just don't understand why driver updates and the performance increases they result in get no attention whatsoever at Tomshardware.

Therre may be a article coming on that. But I agree, its time.

I think if their going to do one it will be when the 7.9 cats are released
off topic i remember back 2 years ago that every 2-3 days there would be a new interesting article but now it seems to have slipped to every 1-2 weeks at best.

I feel the same way, I have not even looked at the main website of tomshardware.com for nearly two months now. To me it looks amateurish and has had a very low amount of decent well update content, but then again I think the reason I don’t look anymore is mostly to do with the former rather than the latter. I don’t like the new forum layout and I don’t like the main page, they still need a lot of tweaking and the updates to the site should be made constantly so we can see what’s happening not saving them all up leaving the user base wondering when things will get fixed or if they will be getting fixed at all.

That’s what they do in beta programming stage they make lots of small changes very frequently till they are left with what is as close to perfection as can be, this forum is still in beta and the last update I can remember was well over 2 weeks ago. Guess they did not have enough manpower for a smooth overhaul of the site.

Anyway thats my rant over, sorry for making you read it.

I understand that Testing thorough a VC with all the tests is a time consuming job, but hey, Tom's are the best.
Come on guys, you havent updated that charts form MONTHS. Even if this takes a lot of time you can still post updates every month, or every major driver update (AMD update their drivers every month, nVidia more rarely).

I have a 2600XT DDR3 and if I am looking your charts right now it totaly sux, but the truth is its WAY much better than 8600GT.

Your charts are really misguiding as Jakc said.

VC market is fast shifting market, not only with new VC releases but new game releases and new driver releases.

Also I really think you should update the games in the charts a little bit. I dont really see any 2007 game in there. What to say about the newest ones.

Pull your **** together and do and update fast!

I think in all honesty, Toms is the best. Theres still as many articles as ever, its just more about other things, like phones, cars etc. Some of these things werent as important a few years ago as they are now, plus, its been a slow period for new products. I, like the rest of you, would like to see more hardware for computer articles. I think they just want to expand their readership. What Id like, is to expand their article count, and still have alot of hardware stories.

Tom used to write some awesome articles now it's owned by a corporation who wants money.

I feel the same way. I used to see updates more frequently.

"Tom used to write some awesome articles now it's owned by a corporation who wants money." marvelous211

I was disappointed when I saw the 1950PRO256mb and not the 512mb version. Same with the X1950XT... I'd like to see more diversity. ANYWAYS that's the reason that I registered with the forumz. To get the straight facts from people that own the cards. Just look at the CPU's used to do the VGA tests.
I also want to share my own knowledge of the hardware I have or have used. PLUS I'm looking for like minded individuals to chat with. NOT argue just chat/laugh etc.

It all boils down to money...
how much more revenue will they get by doing an update to their VGA charts.
If it cost them $5000 to do it and revenue will only be $4000 then what is the point.
It has stopped being a service to the community and become a money grabbing company.
but that is probably the way it will go for all websites that sell out to the corporations.

yup

when I 1st started reading Tom's stuff, I thought it was some guy who wanted to share info. It was so good that advertising got in the way of providing info. I had a feeling it was coming since those VGA charts are awesome... THE IDEA ANYWAYS. now who do we go to for the info? X-bit, anandtech, firingsquad??? TOM'S FORUMZ??? for UPDATED INFO??????????
for some reason I check every day to see if the charts have been updated. seems like Nvidia pays more for advertising than ATi.

I know this is about the VGA charts, but it has been months since the Western Digital PMR hard drives came out. They added the 750gb drive to the charts and never added the rest. The problem is that the 500gb and under drives are NOT PMR meaning they run slower. Good thing I looked elsewhere for my info.

Kinda of ironic, how they spend loads of time making an article explaining the relations between the game industry and GPU makers, but ignore the most important result of these relationships blatantly, driver updates that make games run faster.

Oi, guys, get off your butts and work! Bake me a pie!