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Thread: Tom's Hardware Bribe: "Barton vs. P4 3.3ghz" FUNNY!!

  1. 09-13-2002, 01:15 PM #1
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    Tom's Hardware Bribe: "Barton vs. P4 3.3ghz" FUNNY!!

    Found this link over at 'another' web site...FUNNY!! A must see!
    HERE
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  2. 09-13-2002, 02:17 PM #2
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    Failed to find the funny part
    Another THG wannabe ... if you can't be Tom, bash Tom and earn some respect (Thomas Napster or whatever his name is)
    And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers
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  3. 09-13-2002, 02:33 PM #3
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    yeah i checked that link out

    i didn't quite see the pund intended

    so what i were suppose to see?
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  4. 09-13-2002, 03:50 PM #4
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    Too bad AMD delayed Barton and Clawhammer, AGAIN..... When were all of you AMD fans supposed to get your new chips??? oh thats right earlier this year.

    (Please take no offence to this I'm just slingin it )
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  5. 09-13-2002, 03:52 PM #5
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    huh, cool Fonts

    I don't have time to get the joke right now, but in the Bios Screen shot, the words Athlon XP "Barton" seems to be fake,

    I have Photoshop too


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  6. 09-13-2002, 03:59 PM #6
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    the words Athlon XP "Barton" seems to be fake,
    DOAH !
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  7. 09-13-2002, 04:05 PM #7
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    ahhhh i cccccc

    who knows, might be real, probably just an ASUS bug
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    there's not even a chance that that's a genuine screenshot. If you look closely the Athlon 'Barton' part is a pixel too small and offset a pixel too high. not to mention slightly different fonts being used.

    Anyone with even an ounce of sense would have made the Athlon 'Barton' bit out of existing characters and cut/pasted them one at a time.

    Amateur!

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    And ANOTHER thing I noticed is that the 2 CPU pics are identical excapt for the fact that the central core is larger on the second one. if you save them and use ACDsee or similar to 'flick' from one to another there isn't a single pixel out of place, even the serial numbers on the right is the same.

    how dumb can people really be?
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  10. 09-13-2002, 04:55 PM #10
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    you are 100% right!
    this time i took the time to look and yeap not a single pixel is out of place

    every single # if you zoom in, even the top right faded ones are the same



    oh boy, Toms toms toms...
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  11. 09-13-2002, 05:25 PM #11
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    I don't know why you guys are trashing this satire.

    #1 You SHOULD be able to recognize that it's a fake
    #2 You SHOULD be able to recognize from reading the article that he's MAKING SATIRE
    #3 NOBODY would believe this article
    #4 It's a JOKE.

    Now, knowing the above, there's no reason to not look past the blatantly obvious and see the joke for what it is. Jeez peeps, smile more often and don't take things so bloody seriously.

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  12. 09-13-2002, 05:42 PM #12
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    oops!

    you are rite

    i guess we all forgot to check up the Domain

    it's yet another of those very well made Satire websites

    i like the ones againts M$, thoat are the best

    some with **** 99.9% real TechNet stuff

    they actually managed to mask their Domain as ms Technet, full path

    the only dead give away was the article page itself that was ~<page name>.html

    but you were able to click on the other stuff that really went back and forth between the real stuff.

    too bad i lost that linke, else i'll put it up here
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  13. 09-13-2002, 08:55 PM #13
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    Scan through the WHOLE article. Pages three and four is where the good stuff is. Initially, it had me stumped too, untill I read this section: (Conclusion)
    Sysmark 2002
    While benchmarking our test platforms with Sysmark, we got some unexpected results that we are still investigating more in detail. It seems the bigger cache and higher FSB of the Barton severly skew the results of this popular benchmark. We suspect AMD improved the Barton core specifically to perform better on this benchmark. Therefore, we refrain from publishing our results until AMD can give us a a good explication why the Barton outperforms the P4 on this test.

    Yeah guys...lighten-up! This article IS funny, but you have to read the whole thing to appreciate it.
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  14. 09-14-2002, 07:01 PM #14
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    Funny... but legal?

    Doesn't this violate the copyright THG has on their information... hilarious though... I always thought THG made a big issue out of miniscule differences or advantages... it's good someone finally brought this to light...
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  15. 09-15-2002, 02:04 PM #15
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    I don't have time to get the joke right now, but in the Bios Screen shot, the words Athlon XP "Barton" seems to be fake
    Look at the right corner of the screen shot. It says "Tom'z Hardware Tribe" with a totem pole as a symbol. Gosh, everyones running at 7500 RPM's these days. No wonder they don't think this was funny. They missed half the jokes in the spoof cause they didn't slow down long enough to take a good look.
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