yea the hardforums are pretty bad! you should have seen what happened to SilverSinkSam from ocforums, he saw that people were trading hardware for warez files and mp3s and that and he stepped in and said how he was a trollhunter for ocforums classifieds and was banned, then a whole bunch of us came over there
i personally like the overclockers.com forums a lot, they are fast pased and a lot of good stuff there with no crappage like the hard forums...