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-Fran- Happy Birthday to the site and kudos to the old guard and encouragement to the new guard! Been with you guys for far too long (I'm sure some mods agree, LOL), but I've always been faithful to the spirit of Tom's: be an enthusiast and a nerd with a love for hardware. I still have your thank you letter and the sticky decals for the PC! Treasures for sure. Again, kudos to the whole team, keep being great and have a nice celebration! Regards. Reply
Gururu Been following since the beginning along with Thresh Firing Squad, Voodooextreme, HardOCP, and Anandtech. Has been very helpful through my life especially in those 90s when I started to build PCs for myself and others. Thanks and Congratulations to Tom's, you've aged well and out survived everyone else. Reply
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jkhoward Unbiased testing? If I recall during the early Ryzen years there was a lot of bias about chiplets when Intel was paying reviewers to make their CPUs look better. I called it out numerous times. Heck, even your AMD reviews that were good were instantly removed from the front page with fluff articles so no one would see it. I’d definitely not call yourself unbiased for 20 years. Reply
Mindstab Thrull Historically, I've used Tom's to help me make decisions on various components, including monitors. Over the last few years, I've still respected their opinions in most things, with the exception of PSU's – I've often found enough errors in the creation of the article that I feel I can't trust the contents. Apart from that, it's been a valuable resource for me for decades. Mindstab Thrull Reply
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