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End of an Era, Anandtech is closing down

I rarely visited in the last decade. It’s sad to see them pushing Toms. I remember when Toms was a joke.

I also don’t visit guru3d as much anymore and that used to be my main source. I remember long ago when they quit as well only to immediately come back.

Video reviews are the present and future I guess. Even though I mostly dislike them.

I’m old now and my enthusiasm for technology is slowly phasing out.

Rip old school tech sites.
 
I am not surprised as they have been slowing reducing content steadily over the years, but it is still a big loss. I used to heavily rely on anandtech for my PC info.

Another written site bites the dust. That leaves me with mainly only techpowerup for my written content (Tomshardware in a pinch, but they have never been my cup of tea). Am I missing anything else that still steadily pushes quality written content?
 
crazyea said:
Video reviews are the present and future I guess. Even though I mostly dislike them.

I’m old now and my enthusiasm for technology is slowly phasing out.
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I've seen the same thing happen with music. Initially music was audio only via existing low level tech or live which was rarer in the 50's & 60's. The tech back then only had AM radio and record players. Not much in the way of audiophiles. Then came FM and stereo and a boom in music as equipment and interest grew.

Then along came MTV in the 1980s (sidenote - Mike Nesbith of Monkee's tv/rock group fame 1960s, developed the video format of what became MTV). Dire Straits made fun of MTV in their song, Money For Nothing, but they had to join the MTV movement as well. So video quality & the visual became more important than sound quality for many. Ordinarily I'd make some snide comments about RAP & hip-hop but that's asking for trouble & debate.

Books & book publishing still seem popular though, in spite of audio books, video, thankfully. But magazines & other publications took a hit because most of them have been displaced or replaced by apps and tech.
 
crazyea said:
I rarely visited in the last decade. It’s sad to see them pushing Toms. I remember when Toms was a joke.

I also don’t visit guru3d as much anymore and that used to be my main source. I remember long ago when they quit as well only to immediately come back.

Video reviews are the present and future I guess. Even though I mostly dislike them.

I’m old now and my enthusiasm for technology is slowly phasing out.

Rip old school tech sites.
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I largely feel the same way, although I do have a somewhat continuing disdain for Tom's and I'm not even really certain why anymore. I've been parting with all of my tech recently too and seriously lost my mojo right around the same time that Covid shut us all down. For a loooong time I had extensive media collections and absolutely loved the idea that we could fire up an HTPC in the home and have years and years of TV/movies on demand from a local library sitting in a network tank. Again, when covid hit, the fam really embraced streaming to the point that a large portion of the media collected over the years was available from a handful of online sources and entertainment, which for us was the heart of home networking and computing had become ubiquitous when every TV/tablet/phone in the house had access to these greater libraries.
 
Anandtech used to be my go-to too, but hasn't been as much in recent years, although I think their content was still of fairly high quality.

Sorry to see them go. It was nice just knowing they were there if I needed them :) And Tom's... yeah. Never really been a fan of their content. Not even 100% sure why.
 
Tom's.... lol.

Like I'm going to frequent a site that had a hard hitting article like "Just buy it" regarding the 2080 RTX (since pulled, but still). What a joke that site is.

I'm neutral on Anandtech. Had read a few articles over the years, but never had it as a primary source personally.
 
Anandtech used to be good and up to day like 10 years ago. Once the founder and older writers started to leave it just went down hill. It seems like the tech websites are having the same problem as car YT channels like Donut (never liked them to start with), VC / PE money ruining everything.
 
It's difficult to garner PC gamers when consols are so cheap in comparison. Add the hacking and cheating into the mix and people leave and never come back.

I nuked all my games so if it wasn't for video editing I wouldn't need the monster I'm currently sitting on. At that point hardware reviews are moot for crusing the internet etc.
 
clshades said:
It's difficult to garner PC gamers when consols are so cheap in comparison. Add the hacking and cheating into the mix and people leave and never come back.

I nuked all my games so if it wasn't for video editing I wouldn't need the monster I'm currently sitting on. At that point hardware reviews are moot for crusing the internet etc.
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I feel like the PC market has really condensed in the last 10-15 years. Sure the CPU/GPU reviews are more or less the same, but the days of dozens of smaller companies making RAM, SSDs and PSUs that vary significantly in performance seem to be over.

You used to read reviews of Kingston vs OCZ vs Corsair RAM, and a OCZ SSD might perform substantially differently than a HyperX.

Now it's largely reduced to 'Samsung as fastest, everything else good' on SSDs. PSUs are largely forgotten other than when a lemon that explodes comes out.

Cases seem to really be the one field where there's a lot of variety and room for comparison between brands and models, as well as the occasional new company that can produce something unique.
 
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