Tom's Hardware Reviews 

I don't think they review anymore. Everything looks like hype written by the product manufacturer.

Tom's Hardware used to be good. Possibly one of the best PC hardware sites anywhere. That has completely changed though. Now it's mostly ads disguised as articles, clickbait, misinformation, etc.

the most pop-ups i have ever endured on a website. unusable

I have been building PC for about a year now and I always try and avoid Tom's hardware because of the Autoplay video that plays every time I click on the website. the women running looks like she going to fall asleep.

Some years ago Tom's Hardware website used to be decent, but recently it became entangled in scandal with intel bribes and started fabricating their benchmarks and writing fraudulent biased content towards intel.
Try googling this yourself, you'll find plenty of info about this.
How can anyone trust a website after such actions.

Autoplay videos. That is all.

Blocking screen with cookie selection every single time I visit even if I set to reject. Blocking contents asking for cookie is illegal according to new GDPR laws. It became a greedy, commercial ad site in the recent years. Disappointed.

how in the frick do i post a thread? this poop is too complicated

Hi !

i had worst experience at TH ....what I found and concluded, that the most of the TH members are gang of selfish/private system builders who are only there to post their (or their company's) ADS.
Worst part is that they are RUDE (they will indirectly insult you by using double meaning words if you do not agree with them....and more worse is .....if you try to hit them back indirectly/directly....they will bring in their high ranked friends ...i.e. biased moderators) and try to push you psychologically (by bringing in their friends to favor their posts on a topic) towards their selfish motives.....this certainly defeats sole purpose of a healthy forum i.e. to share your ideas & knowledge with an objective to sharpen your practical skills.

Finally, most worst part is ....if somehow (with all your efforts) you are able to prove ......that all of them are wrong........they will try to convince you that TH users can be anyone and are not linked to TH anyway....they will also discredit other web links (of well reputed brand/ companies) as garbage and can even remove those links...later without your knowledge in order to hide their carelessness or selfish motives.

Here is the opinion of member of outervision.com

Hi,

This is not the first time some of the TH users bash our calculator. Frankly I'm not surprised as there is a number of pcpartpicker "supporters/advertisers" on TH that will discard anything but their own interests. TH often deletes posts that contain links to our PSU calculator but surely promotes pcpartpicker. Wonder why?

Our PSU calculator adds additional 50W to the load value. Also, the premise of the calculation is based on ALL components being under 100% load which happens rarely but still does is specific cases. I doubt the user you are referring to was able to 100% load all of his/her components.

Btw, we worked closely with scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on their gaming power consumption project and they found our calculator to be very accurate.

Best Regards,
Axel

Avoid this forum at all cost. The people they have running the forum are rude and they delete posts for no good reason. I have to assume simply because they personally disagree with it. The one excuse they love to use, "Don't post in threads over 30 days old". That's utterly absurd. So never have a conversation about something that's 31 days old? You'd rather people create multiple threads about the same topic and turn your entire website into a swamp? Oh wait, nope! They'll delete that too!

If you want a good advice, here is one bever ever look for advice from people who don’t even know what they are talking about. The forum is full of liars who gloat and boast about their knowledge and experience on computers. And every time somethings goes on your pc and you seek advice from that forum you will get a few kinds of people giving you wrong advice. Most of them actually unsure themselves but have the need to boast and gloat so they can feel important, feel smart, feel relevant.

These are those type who ask
you questions rather then answer your questions. They will reply you with questions, instead of providing you solutions. Question like have you checked the cable are properly plugged in, your ram are properly inserted etc. Basically because they themselves are their own blunder they expect that everyone is like them.

Then another type would be those who over exaggerate your problems. These type of people will tell you that your problem is related to ram, processor, gpu, power supply anything with the highest price tag. You can tell that they have no experience whatsoever because everything is about replacing not identifying. They would suggest the craziest idea that static electricity might fried your motherboard.

One must know people like these stick together. Like they say birds of a feather flock together. And because they have the support of the forum moderators themselves that is why they can continue to
do what they do.

Remember a bad advice is worse then the problem itself. Go to google and search through for your motherboard brand forums.

They will ban you for adding information to questions. Being new to computers i left crucial information out of my forum question. I had to edited a post twice to add the relevant info about my question and they banned me, calling it spam. It says to contact admin if i feel it was done by mistake, but there is no way to contact them. If i try to open the website it redirects me to the ban notice. None of their team members can be contacted through twitter, and none have replied to emails. All i wanted was to make sure the forum had all the necessary info to help fix my computer. And i cant even see the solutions to the question that got me banned.

Great site with the best forums. The forums are my go-to forums for technical issues!

Pure trash website run buy Apple-shill garbage. They know nothing about technology, but are absolutely experts on sucking each other off

Just asked a few simple questions about upgrading my pc. Split them in different forums because no one answers a thread after a couple replies. And the moderator straight up just says: "Stop wasting our time with repetitive questions as they already have been answered" (They weren't btw) And he linked some of my other threads which all btw weren't solved, or even answered. Final words trash site ran by rude, arrogant and toxic people.

not a single person who replied was named tom

That's what I'll say. I never got a straight and direct answer from them.

Hi. I am a hobby YouTuber, and analyst on the side with very very deep insight into modern hardware. I would gladly support and recommend tomshardware, and even their former forums when the site was run with thought and care. However, about 2 years ago (2017) a huge shift in how the site operated became reality.

My example, was that their big reviews of products disappeared. For example, almost any and all youtubers make sure to show relative performance between product A, B, C down to X. Toms left this extremely useful format completely and have actively hidden it away so it has become unbelievably hard to find it. AKA propping up horrible products and short selling the best ones.

The site design is also extremely bad, and i will also add that you will nearly N.E.V.E.R see amd news hang around regardless of how insanely spicy the news are. But Intel? Processor announced that is objectively the worst deal ever, AND got inferior performance, AND is less secure, AND doesn't have a flexible platform, AND isn't measured up to it's competitor..... Toms hardware is today a worthless site, coming from my most charitable take. But also most objective. Beware, enjoy the youtubers instead. They know how to do a good job!

complete wanna be know it all's i have proven the moderators wrong so many times they banned my acc because i know more then they do and stopped them from wasting several peoples money....
and all because i called them out on there bs " the fact that the moderator lied about what i was saying the fact that there moderators are the reason there ratings are crap "THEY NEED TO DISBAND all the moderators and reelect there mods".

hey when your family member helped design windows 10 you know what windows 10 is able to do.

Absolutely awful forum, raised a thread for support connecting a monitor to a company laptop and a moderator with a taste for power decided to close my thread based on his view of my corporate IT policy. The strange thing is he doesn't know what company I work for...

The moderator was ex_bubblehead

Won't use them again.