Hmm, why do I have a feeling that we're going to end up with basically an Intel version of the Nvidia Focus Group bullshit out of this? I'm gonna laugh if he ends up basically just running HardOCP and Hardforum again, just entirely focused around Intel.
Don't really care, I barely ever used that site (for anything, I posted there some like a decade ago and used the FS/T forum some but didn't bother beyond that; occasionally I'd see someone link to discussion about something and would get a laugh about some of the fanboys from here gloating about being fanboy trolls on Anandtech while they whined about being labeled fanboy trolls here and complain that the mods are mean to them while kissing Kyle's ass - even though plenty of them had at various times declared him an AMD shill or something because how he'd cycle through periods of pretty blatant bias) and seems like pretty much everyone that talked about him thought he was a dickhead. At one point it seemed like every week we got a new person on here making a thread that was "fuck Kyle and HardOCP".
I guess good for him on spinning doing that into a dedicated gig (that I assume came with a pay raise). I got the impression he was often trying for that, with him kinda cycling who he buddied up to you could tell he clearly let personal contacts bias him in the reviews and how he ran the site. Seems that he might have been Raja's way of venting his frustration with the lack of resources he had while AMD focused on Zen, but anyone that knew pretty much anything knew there was about zero chance AMD was going to sell their GPU division let alone to Intel. Would be interesting if Raja or Kyle thought they might actually be able to build support for it to happen by doing that story. I'm guessing this is a bit of a returning the favor on Raja's part. I have to laugh at people comparing this situation and Anand moving on to Apple though as I doubt their positions are terribly similar.
Wonder what will happen to the FS/T users, seems like people said that was mostly what they used that site for since it was one of the "old guard" that still had a reasonably active FS/T forum.
Is BYO really all that big a thing anymore?
I think its actually maybe more popular than ever? (Speaking pure numbers and less percentage of computer users building their own as the latter is way down but laptops are popular and you can't really DIY there that well.)
I seem to see lots of people talking about having built their PC (many of them are not young/teenagers that might be just getting into it, I'm talking like 30 year olds and stuff that just never had, but got into PC gaming for various reasons and then because of knowing someone and having other resources decide to give it a go). Streamers and YouTube definitely have played a role. I think there's even a "game" on Steam "PC Build Simulator" or something where you pick out parts, check compatibility, and then do the process, which has helped some people as well.
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