It's been an awfully long time since I truly felt AnandTech stepped above their competitors in CPU reviews (or other areas for that matter).
For quite awhile I've felt AnandTech has merely treaded water as a very good but unspectacular CPU hardware site.
Good, but generally incomplete articles with a few omissions/errors or otherwise less thorough then 1 or 2 other sites often manage.
Certainly worth reading every article, but no longer the best in every sense.
Granted that's not so much the fault of AnandTech as the rise of a number of very respectable sites and increased coverage of hardware across the net'.
I was quite favourably impressed with the latest review of the A4000+/FX55, not the best I've seen here by any means... but for the first time in quite awhile I feel it's the best available at the present time.
Certainly I can think of a few areas for improvement, but no article in perfect and it's been all too long since AnandTech stepped above the best onto a plateau all their own.
It may only be one article, but it's enough to get me to temporarily break my self imposed exile from the ATForums.
Besides, I'm midly curious to see how many of the more prolific posters from the period in which I frequented this forum are still around.
For quite awhile I've felt AnandTech has merely treaded water as a very good but unspectacular CPU hardware site.
Good, but generally incomplete articles with a few omissions/errors or otherwise less thorough then 1 or 2 other sites often manage.
Certainly worth reading every article, but no longer the best in every sense.
Granted that's not so much the fault of AnandTech as the rise of a number of very respectable sites and increased coverage of hardware across the net'.
I was quite favourably impressed with the latest review of the A4000+/FX55, not the best I've seen here by any means... but for the first time in quite awhile I feel it's the best available at the present time.
Certainly I can think of a few areas for improvement, but no article in perfect and it's been all too long since AnandTech stepped above the best onto a plateau all their own.
It may only be one article, but it's enough to get me to temporarily break my self imposed exile from the ATForums.
Besides, I'm midly curious to see how many of the more prolific posters from the period in which I frequented this forum are still around.
