AnandTech Shuts Down, an Icon of Tech News and Reviews Rides into the Sunset

[mechtech]

"particularly in the golden age of PC (the 1990s and the 2000s)"

Ya, the good ol days.............

Shame, not too many left now compared to then.

 

[Rakhmaninov3]

I've been reading tech review sites including Anandtech since the 90s.

With this news, I'm pouring one out for my homies: Hardocp, Techreport, Xbitlabs and now Anandtech. You will all be missed.

The first tech site I started following when I was in high school was Tech Report. I got a PII-based Celeron 400MHz that I overclocked to 533MHz using advice from the forums there and boy was that a big difference. Went with my ATI XPert graphics card and had a ball with it. RAM to spare with 128MB and massive 8GB HDD. The really fast 7200rpm kind.

Scott and Geoff did great reviews, and Scott started the whole frametime/inside-the-second thing that I’m thrilled TPU still uses. Always enjoyed Anand too, though I didn’t drop in there as much.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Been an Anandtech fan since the K6 review. It changed when Anand sold it to the same marketing company that had bought Toms Hardware Guide, but, was indeed still strong for several years after that. Anyhow, their forums are still up, but, I fear they are going to stop working at some point, I suspect other castaways will navigate here as well...

Stoked you kept your username too.

This is the best written format tech site left.