What the *@&%! had happened to AnandTech??

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: bendixG15
And as far as the 'people are here for the community" logic, I don't believe too many of us will buy in that. If the "community" were that strong, then the forum would not need so many mods to maintain some semblance of civility.

Besides those who come here just for some tech support or to research hardware, why do people stay? You've been here since 2001. Why still here? If this place is so full of shortcomings, what's keeping you here? What possessed you to post over 3000 times? Or are those all FS/FT bumps? 😱 Well, heck, FS/FT is a community too.

One of the definitions of "community" is: An interacting population of various kinds of individuals in a common location.

We are a population that interacts in a place called Anandtech Forums. Therefore we are a community.

on the 'sauce' tonight, but...
been here since 2002, on the dc forum.
have made a lot of friends there 🙂

poke my nose into other forums every once in a while, hence, this :beer:

 

[Denithor]

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System Buyer's Guide - January 2009

Great - looks like they're listening to our comments here!

Keep up the good work & we'll keep reading.

 

[Jeff7181]

Have you seen the Bench beta on the main page? Going to be pretty nice when it's filled in with more data.

 

[lenjack]

Old man...44yo...give me a break! I'm 67, and I'm WAY into this stuff. All my friends and neighbors, almost all younger than me, come to me for their computer issues.

 

[Quiksilver]

Originally posted by: lenjack
Old man...44yo...give me a break! I'm 67, and I'm WAY into this stuff. All my friends and neighbors, almost all younger than me, come to me for their computer issues.

 

[grrl]

When I built my first machine in 2000 I got tons of information from Anand's reviews, but when I upgraded two years ago there was much less. The motherboard forum was very helpful though.

 

[Davegod]

well IIRC I bought my last mobo* largely on the strength of AT review so I can't complain too much 😉 It's a P35... from the P35 roundup.

Personally I'd rather see reasonably in-depth review of specific boards, and also round ups (say 1 page per board) of boards people are likely to be choosing between (i.e. similar price & compatibility). Regurgitating the in-depth reviews in condensed form for the round-up is fine by me, I use round-ups to narrow to a few choices then read in-depth on those.

IMO there's not much point reviewing more than one reference-based video card, they seem to be 0.5% difference. Non-stock coolers, factory over clocked, OK.

And definitely round-ups of CPU's and Video cards. It's the only way to gauge whether it's worth paying extra for the next step up, and how much faster the new gen is above what I have. digit-life do this too comprehensively; toms get's it very nearly right for convenience. Again I'm perfectly fine with simply having a standard test platform which runs a couple of standard benchmarks as-and-when doing an actual review, I don't expect big roundups to all be ran at the same time or at 100% optimal test conditions.

TBH a couple of times in the past I've helped friends with laptops and getting reasonably comparable, reliable reviews is a PITA. I usually just say "get a toshiba" because they've never let me down. AT reviews on laptops would have been welcome then; though I note most sites have a habit of banging on about various standard things (really, does there need to be a page on the cpu?) and not enough comment on the build quality, cooling etc and does anyone actually take a screwdriver to check out upgrade/fixability?

Admittedly I don't visit the news/articles page, I only go there when researching an upgrade or another site like Inq or dailyrotation (RSS) highlights a good article. Very rarely can I be bothered reading anybody's in-depth tech articles on CPU's but for each generation AT seems to have one particularity good article where you balance depth, easy reading and "the interesting bits" very very well. Despite not looking at the AT frontpage I always catch these because pretty much everyone pimps these out (from dailyrot to Bluesnews).

* (well OK, probably all of them but the last 1 I remember quite specifically)

 

[Denithor]

I wish AT did more CPU comparisons like Tomshardware CPU charts but up to the normal AT standard of excellence.

I do love the in-depth CPU & GPU architecture reviews, those are simply fantastic for showing not only that there are differences (which everyone shows) but also where the differences come from (ok, I'm a total nerd - byte me).

 

[theShark]

Originally posted by: Denithor
I wish AT did more CPU comparisons like Tomshardware CPU charts but up to the normal AT standard of excellence.

ditto

 

[Anodos]

Originally posted by: theShark

Originally posted by: Denithor
I wish AT did more CPU comparisons like Tomshardware CPU charts but up to the normal AT standard of excellence.

ditto

Double ditto.

 

[Lalakai]

Originally posted by: gString
I've been reading AnandTech for quite some time now. Slowly it become my main computer hardware resource. Admittedly, I become addicted.
Don't get me wrong - I'm interested in games, cameras and home-theater. But it's not why I come to this site for. I need my hardware fix! I finally joined the forums, in the sole purpose of trying to claim the good old PC hardware site back. Maybe it's just me, so old fashion that I don't even play multiplayer games?
Give me back the system guides. Give me back the MB roundup. Tell me what is the best memory speed to buy for what processor on which chipset. Give me back AnandTech.
Pretty please?

hmmmmm, sounds just like a conversation i had with myself a few months back. But i remember it from a longer perspective, when it was more oriented towards the nuts and bolts of computers, and the people on the forums were old time geeks. Admittedly it has changed to meet different needs and different market requirements, but I will agree with you, that there are times I feel the same as you. Then again, i still remember working in dos compiling mutiple boots to maximize memory for different games, loading drivers in specific order to allow max use of himemsys. And even the lug-able Kaypro with the dual screens and dual disk drives. Oh well. Some paths are just too dusty to walk again.