As a technical aside, my humble apologies to anyone who wanted to register an account here to post a comment but cannot. Due to a major bot issue this summer, user registrations were disabled. And as we're now winding down operations, we're not in a position to re-enable them.
Otherwise, already existing accounts are still free to post.
I have enjoyed so much of this site, and it was a major part of my development into the person I am today, from an early teenager just getting into Tech to becoming a practice leader. Thank you for everything Ryan, and thank you to all the AT Staff. As Sahrin said, +1 for all those who wanted to make a comment but couldn't.
I feel like I'm mourning someone's death... I don't understand how so many useless websites make tons of money, and a website with so much technical baggage has to close its doors. Either way, Anandtech will go down as one of the best technology sites in history.
I haven't logged into this account for years, but I'm really glad to have it right now. Thank you for all of your hard work over the years. Is there a way to archive the site so that all of your work won't be lost? There's value in referring to old articles and benchmarks as time goes on.
I've been reading anandtech since early Athlon days, so I'm sorry to see it go. I absolutely hate how everything is a video review now, instead of an article I can read.
Video wouldn't be as terrible if they would get to the point. Instead, the trend is to pad a 5-minute piece of content into a 45-minute video, complete with superfluous intros.
Well, many haven't mastered the central art of filmmaking, which is editing, cutting down a story to its essentials, no matter how beautiful one's footage is or otherwise.
Oh, AnandTech, what a saga it's been! For 27 years, you were the absolute total red roosters central, a veritable shrine to the art of uncritical praise. Even as the red team was losing billions upon billions of dollars, you stayed true to form, crooning the ballad of their "always mediocre devices" with an enthusiasm that could only be described as stubbornly delusional.
It’s almost poetic how you've managed to drag your feet through two and a half decades without so much as a whisper of innovation. Who needs cutting-edge technology when you’ve had your head firmly lodged in the sands of Always Mediocre Devices? I’m sure your servers were like vintage wine—getting better with age, right? Or maybe they were just like that dusty old tech magazine that no one ever bothered to read because, well, it was outdated the moment it hit the stands.
So, here’s to you, AnandTech—may your departure be as uneventful as your tenure. You’ve truly set a new standard for how low a tech site can go and still somehow keep its lights on. Farewell, and thanks for proving that sometimes, the best way to make an impact is to not make one at all.
What a horrible comment. It doesn’t reflect on the good work that AnandTech did. It reflects on you, very poorly.
To all the staff at AnandTech—I’ve been reading your work regularly for 20 years. It’s consistently been the best and most educational, as reflected by the very well informed readership and commentariat. There’s a reason people who are industry professionals come here to read and comment. Most everything I’ve learned about hardware came from you guys. Thanks for everything.
Thank you Ryan, Anand, all the writers, editors, and members that contributed to Anandtech over the years. This was the 2nd site I frequented after learning to install windows 20 odd years ago. As everyone knew, reinstalling windows was the only real way to fix your pc back then lol. Anandtech immediately became my goto for pc info, and greatly helped me with my new hobby. Took me from a noob learning to build, and upgrade his pc for gaming (D2, CS, etc), through troubleshooting various issues, to fully understanding the in's and outs of pc's. Friends, and family still approach me for information that I mostly learned here. The tech may have advanced, but building, and troubleshooting pc's hasn't changed much. My builds have shrunk, somehow gotten quieter, and I can totally run Crysis thanks to Anandtech!
Thanks for all your work and trying to keep this site going (against the odds)! Indeed the end of an era. Hope you are moving on to better and greater things!
This question feels almost inappropriate: will the tests and, especially, the deep dives, be archived and remain accessible? Those were and are almost unique, and irreplaceable!
I just re-read your article, and saw this " Our publisher, Future PLC, will be keeping the AnandTech website and its many articles live indefinitely. So that all of the content we’ve created over the years remains accessible and citable. " So hopefully my question was unnecessary. You guys literally wrote part of modern computing hardware history, and those reviews and tests and backgrounders should be archived, and not just by Future PLC. And, again, thanks Ryan, and best wishes and good luck for your next move!
Wow, this site is as old as my username. I've been here through the original Athlon500, the start of Nvidia, the end of 3DFX and too much more... I think of this as a staple for tech advancements... And announcements...
I had been away from comments and forums for years as my work changed but it's been an exciting journey... Right now I have a Minisforum PC with 3 outputs and 720p gaming and it's smaller than my 5.1 center...
Watching big cases become nearly irrelevant with SSDs has been another huge change... I have 8TB now...
Farewell Anandtech. Regardless of anything that's led to today over the last few years, I want to express, like so many others, my gratitude in finding Anandtech and making it such a core part of my weekly news cycle over so many years.
Anandtech's articles on Nehalem, Phenom, and later Sandy bridge were almost single-handedly responsible for sending me into computer engineering in High School. Thank you all for every word that's gone to e-print, and I hope everybody finds a good role somewhere else ASAP.
Started reading in 1998. Still hanging around til this day. Started to worry a little about tech hardware a few years before Anand left when so many cell phones were being reviewed - turns out I was worried about the wrong thing. Thanks for all the great explanations by many great writers, for many years.
Chipping in as well. What a journey! As sad as I am to see the end, you've changed a lot of our lives for the better. I hope you all feel a sense of accomplishment in having contributed to the world and us. Thank you.
Been with you guys from the beginning. A daily checkin here for 26 years will be tough to change. Thank you all very much for the must trusted reviews all this time.
As an avid reader since '99, this really hurts to read. AnandTech has always gone above and beyond to provide detailed reviews that few others matched. Thank you to all of the editors that put in decades of work for us readers. And I hope everybody is able to quickly find a new employer in these days where written media is slowly going away.
A large thank you for all the competent writers of Anandtech.
I especially remember you reviewing the ASUS K7M motherboard which wasn’t really labelled with the ASUS label, and writers Anand and Ian comes to mind especially in the early years.
All the best of luck to all of you. In your coming endeavours.
I am sorry that you have to close, but I hope that one day you can rise like the bird Phoenix from the Ashes.
It's funny. I just checked Anand's first article, and had forgotten it was this very article (and other reviews following) that led me to adopt K6 processors in our production line instead of Pentium IIs. We could offer faster cheaper Windows workstations to our clients, it got us ahead, and I continued running that business until we sold it in '22 on our retirement. Thank you AT.
Been lurking since 2010. This site guided me from a PC know-nothing to a confident hobbyist. Anandtech will be missed dearly. Best of luck to the crew!
Thank you for the years of articles and invaluable information that took me from building my first Athlon T-bird system to my current 5900x-based setup. I look forward to seeing what you do next Ryan :)
As a reader of 22+ years - thank you for everything, Anandtech.
I am truly saddened by the slow collapse of quality in-depth written tech news, and Anandtech was the best in the business.
Ryan, thank you for your 10 years as editor-in-chief. (Exactly 10 years, isn't it?) I believe you did everything possible, given the state of the industry and the original sale of the company
I am certain each contributor, past and present, has even greater things ahead!
Just 2 weeks ago I was explaining SSE/SIMD to colleagues, in relation to AVX-512, and it's all thanks to AnandTech articles about the former some 25 years ago. I learned so much from you, and just wish this wasn't true. One more top resource falling to the clickbait/AI-generated/YouTube-revenue competition. I would subscribe now if I could, so my best response is to subscribe to Ars instead.
I'll simply wish you, Ryan, the other authors, and those behind the scenes my best, and hope that everyone finds themselves in as good a place as AnandTech was for me over the years.
Memories... I remember reading you since I was a poor middle schooler in Eastern Europe dreaming of the day I will afford that coveted Duron build. Eventually I saved enough to buy a Duron 750, and the hardware choice was driven entirely by Anandtech. Every single hardware decision since then has been driven by you guys.
You guys defined an epoch for many of my peers and you will be sorely missed. Thank you for the memories, thank you for the fish, thank you for making a nerd's childhood a delight
Thanks for everything over the years, this was my first port of call for almost everything IT related. I thought the writing was on the wall as the number of articles slowed down after Anand left but the quality always made it worth it. Tomshardware is where I typically go now but it does have really aggressive ads (especially on mobile) and more news-type posts. Anyway, thank you for your time and dedication, people are really going to miss this site, but at least previous articles are still kept relevant and available. Good luck with your future endeavours
Thanks for your hard work. Thanks for the excellent content over the years. You were a real enrichment for the tech community. May you all land on your feet and be successful!
Registrations, password resets, and a bunch of other basic functions.
Oh well. The barely functioning website with poor data and worse policies will continue to rot. This whole thing should have been taken out behind the wood shed years ago.
Thank you to the whole group at AnandTech. A special thank you to E. Fylladitakis, whose articles I always read thoroughly and really enjoyed. AnandTech was the place from where I watched several Apple presentations; I will miss that very much. Farewell.
Wow, the end of an era! I'm extremely sorry to see the site wind down, but the influence Anandtech has had on a generation of tech journalists and tech readers will endure. Thanks for all that you've done!
Wasn't expecting to see this, although signs have been in the background for a while. Hope all affected find a new path quickly.
I remember the site when Anand was still here, and things have changed over the years. I prefer written format over the trend for videos, where it is much more difficult to find specific information and reference it.
I'm not surprised. As tech has matured it has become less interesting and the details too complex to really understand as a casual reader. It isn't just Anandtech I have found myself visiting less frequently,
Thank you Ryan, Anand, and everyone who has contributed to making Anandtech what it is. You guys are legends, and while the void left by your absence can't be filled, I will always remember rushing to AT on launch days, and consulting it for hardware performance data, news, and tweaks (when I couldn't figure how I'd messed up a build, lol).
Thank you so much for the memories, and may your future successes be commensurately large with the service you've done for the community.
Thank you all for your contributions and dedication. I have been a regular visitor since I think 1999 and despite the changes faces, I have always regarded the work as reputable. Good luck in your future ventures.
This is sad, years I've been reading here. So much effort and quality has been put to the reviews analyze as well as deep level dive into the details. This place will be missed.
it´s so sad news... Anandtech was one of the best websites about graphics and PC and also great deep-dive articles about hardware. Thank you for everything. Wish the best !
It is sad to see the end of the site. Anandtech got me hooked on computer technology, and it was an amazing ride during those decades that saw a one-of-a-kind rapid progression in computer technology. 2D graphics to 3D graphics, small gaming cards that turned into powerful compute devices. A computer morphing from a single core single-thread processor to an entire supercomputing cluster on a chip. Slow, unreliable, and noisy hard drives eventually superseded by solid state drives. Basic analog motherboards that would blow out if overtaxed, to digital VRM motherboards that can self-throttle and even self-regulate power distribution on the fly. Even the dawn of the smartphone age.
It was a privilege to follow along during those 27 years. The names and authors may of changed along the way, but Anandtech was there for all of it.
It is sad to see the site go it has been a wild ride for sure. I have been coming here since the site opened 27 years ago. This site will be missed by myself and many others.
Just posting here to say thank you and will miss this website a lot. Many of Anand's reviews were fantastic and helped me a-lot to decide on the hardware I purchased, my first brand new machine being a Duron 800 (now running a 7800x3d!).
Thanks guys, glad the content is staying online (at least for now). Will probably try and setup a mirror on vogonswiki.
I actually preferred AT over tom's because all the pages on AT could be loaded with all the graphs, normally with print view. On tom's I have to click for more pages and for more graphs.
Sad to see that the rumors were true about AT being usurped by toms.
I don't know exactly when I started reading Anandtech, the earliest evidence I found is a note in my diary from 2003. Which I'm afraid was a whinge about Mozilla CPU usage rendering large Flash animated adverts, so advertisers have always been a pain for readers and I imagine authors, but later I mentioned things I learned from articles. $ grep -i anandtech diary |wc -l 13 So I guess you've been a part of my life. Thanks for everything.
I was never much of a commenter, but I was definitely an avid reader. So sad to see this place go down. It was always my most trusted source, when others always seemed mired in controversy, this one always stood all for for me.
After all these years, I’m sad to see you go. No idea when I first started reading but it’s been a long, long time. Best of luck in all of your future endeavors!
Incredibly sad to see this post, been a lurker since around 2003-4 and been using this site religiously for everything. This is tough on many levels and while it seemed inevitable it's still very difficult to accept. All the best to everyone and a big personal thank you for being the one tech constant in my life.
Very sad to see but not unexpected, Anandtech has been my go-to source for tech related news and reviews probably since 2010 until few years ago. Good luck to all the staff and hope we'll meet again somewhere else.
This is sad to hear. I've been coming to this site since I can remember getting into tech. Best of luck to everyone involved with the website. Thank you for everything you did.
A sad, but inevitable day. I read Anand's first review article, the AMD K6, and was hooked. Anandtech has been my home page ever since. I've not visited a website where its readers were more engaged (I'm sure to the chagrin of the staff, at times).
A 27 year legacy will stand out for years to come. My hope is the writers and staff at Anandtech find their way to meaningful positions.
Wow. This is a sad day. I was here during college and the early days of my career, supporting my gaming hobby by researching benchmarks between AMD Athlon Thunderbird and Intel Pentium 4. To think about some of the releases since then, when I checked AT first thing in the morning to see those early reviews....Geforce4, ATi Radeon, Athlon 64, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Geforce 6800 Ultra, all the way to today's Nvidia RTX and AMD Ryzen....The Anandtech team helped me make better buying decisions again and again.
And then the forums....the virtual water cooler where like-minded people could ask questions, share information, and just generally chat about random topics. The community kept us coming back.
I haven't been around here much lately. Most of my tech news these days is consumed while listening to youtube while multitasking. A sign of the times I suppose.
Thank you for being here all these years. The community owes you all a debt of gratitude.
As someone who's been reading your website ever since I got my first computer in 2000, I wish you and the team all the very best for your future endeavours.
I first started reading AnandTech around 20 years ago, as a high school student who was just getting into learning how my computer worked and how to tinker with it. It was one of my favorite sources in general, but specifically I loved the deep dives into new CPU architecture with plenty of discussion of functional block and transistor-level changes.
I'm a senior networking engineer now, still tinkering in between my work, and it's been my habit to visit every couple days or so to see what's going on. It's been clear for a while that video is becoming the dominant medium in this segment, so while I had no idea of the financials it felt like the writing might be on the wall. I'll even admit that I first heard about this from Ian's YouTube video. Still, it is a shame to lose this - the main virtue of videos are how easy they are to passively consume, not their depth of content or analysis. I appreciate the creators like ServeTheHome and GamersNexus which make an effort to do written content as well.
I'll miss AnandTech, and having appreciated the team's hard work over many years I hope you all have soft landings into a role doing what you love somewhere new. Like the article says, nothing lasts forever, and you have a legacy here of great work.
Very sad to see. For years Aandtech was the first website I visited every day and always looked forward to the in-depth reviews on launch dates of processors or phones!
Ah, I'll keep it short. I shall miss this site a lot. Thank you for all the content and level headed, clickbait free articles. We need more sites like this not less!
While this might be the end of an era for AnandTech, I'm glad that it's not the end for in depth written tech news and reviews written by people who care. Tom's Hardware continuing on, and the recent revitalization of the Gamers Nexus website have proved that.
I'm glad the site is remaining up - AnandTech is a treasure trove of historical context and useful info for what are now retro PC enthusiasts. (Fun fact: as Anand mentioned offhand in the Super Socket 7 motherboard article but was unable to test at the time, the Aladdin V chipset *does* actually work with 1GB of ram)
The end of an era. AnandTech has always been the gold standard and a trusted resource for me. Sad to see it go, but hopeful that another generation of high integrity tech hardware journalism will rise in its place.
Thanks for all the hard work and for staying true to the values of the site!
Ryan, I was very sad to see this post this morning. I hope you find happy pastures in the tech world, and be proud of what you have done. You and your previous team have always made great technical articles, even diving into difficult to describe ideas and make them readable and enjoyable. I will miss the new stories here, as this has been a staple of my morning routine for years. - Best regards!
Sorry to hear fellas. Loved all the content over the years been reading since 1999. AnandTech one of the GOAT's. Best of luck in future endeavours Ryan and crew! One door closes, so that another can open! Thanks for all the content over the years, you made me the computer nerd I am today!
Thank you guys for all you’ve done through the years. AnandTech has always been my go to tech site and I’ll miss the great articles and lively debates. Wish Ryan and the team all the best going forward.
I've been on this site since the year 2000 and have learned so much from the articles and forum members. However I did see the writing on the road youtube and taken over for written article even though they are of worse technical quality.
Thank you to the team for all the work and the journey I started reading the site as someone in my early 20's and now we finish and I'm in my 40's. As as much as I like THG it will never replace Prime Anandtech.
Long time lurker; last time poster: This is almost the saddest news in my RSS feed this morning (after Gaza). I've been reading AnandTech since the 90s, specifically for its in-depth articles, and it will be missed. Thank you! Definitely not looking forward to ever more shallow, AI-kluged-together content as the enshitification of the Internet continues...
wow my old login still works. just thought I'd post. when I was in my teens same age as Anand this site and forum was where I learned about PC hardware, bought and sold components on the forum, argued about what GPU was best, Found out about different steppings or special chips that were cheap and overclcoked to the moon. haven't been here as much in years as an adult, but those memories always had me checking in occationally, been sad to see this site kind of drift off into just being another random tech site and not what it used to be. Kinda feels like its time but sad to see go.
Oh, man. I'm really sad about this, but wish you all the best in your future endeavours. I was that weird kid who would run home from middle school and boot up the computer and open up Anandtech to read new articles, practically daily, it was so central to me ending up in a compute field.
The only constant is change, but this is a bummer. Best of luck, and thanks for all the fish.
I was lucky enough to do display reviews here for a few years and work with some absolutely wonderful people (Ryan, Anand, Josh, Brian, Jarred, and more) while I was here. But I also vividly remember my professor in our required PC Hardware class in 1998 telling us that we could find out everything we needed to know to pass the class from reading AnandTech. I was already an avid reader, which made it easy for me to challenge the class the next day and not have to sit through it for an entire quarter having to learn information that was likely already outdated. I hate to see it go, and good luck to everyone going forward.
True journalism in Technology industry died today. August 30, 2023.
What a sad fate. AT always had higher standards in testing. Writing and deep dives that one would never find elsewhere. Plus custom tests that AT wrote such ad CPU latency, Cache testing and a lot more, esp Anandtech Benchmark suites and ATs database of Benchmarks to gauge a CPU or GPU. And at a personal level AT influence was key for me to be In a position where I can also see through the lens of enthusiasts POV and gain knowledge and also thinking perspectives. Really grateful to be a part of this.
AT tests not just include dumb youtube like junk which are farmed for clicks and mainstream content (GN, HWU, LTT and son on). Also not just that, the community interaction here and like minded folks arguing or agreeing to a technical discussion is just irreplaceable. YT comments are not useful for posterity and other mainstream sites like TPU, Toms do not cover anything that AT does in their specific way. Toms forums are decent but they are nowhere near AT forum level. There are so many things that AT has a signature to it.
I blame the stupid people. They want everything precooked and ready. AT technical deep dives are lost in the braindead IQ of masses. Now like all we have to consume the padded, sponsored, biased reviews I guess.
The writing was on the wall. GPU reviews stopped flowing in was first red flag. Then Ian involvement dropped and he left entirely. Less finances to make this work over Toms Hw..
Fun fact is I got into fued with Andrei on how his tests on Apple processors do not translate to real world speed tests and how his DAC reviews of LG ESS were not upto mark along with Android OS deteriorating due to Apple influcence (scoped storage first arrived with Android 10) guess what I was blocked lol saying cool it off. IRL he had to cool it off, anyways moving on. Had to make this account, that old one was Quantumz0d. You can go to old LG reviews and Apple reviews and find my takes on Android regression and Apple tests.
Goodbye Anandtech and all the crew who made it this far and everyone in this journey.
We will miss you Anandtech for your invaluable work. And wishing everyone - All the very best from bottom of my heart.
Greetings GeoffreyA. Good to hear man and yes I do remember we usually had similar train of thoughts. That said, thank you as well. See you on the otherside.
As others have said this is an end of an era. I started a computer shop in my hometown back when I was 19, first Tom's Hardware then Anandtech became my online resources for doing research on hardware for client builds. I lost interest in Tom's in the late 90's but I've consistently read Anandtech as part of my daily routine almost since it's first post.
Thank you for all the information, guides, reviews and general positive atmosphere, this site, it's editors, writers, contributors and community have been appreciated by me for a very long time and is a big part of how I got my first industry job as a kernel engineer on Windows at Microsoft in 1999.
All the best to everyone, and thank you very much.
Thank you for the many years. A regular morning stop at my job over the last 23 years. Wish you and your team nothing but the best in your future endeavors.
Totally unexpected. Another part of my past bites the dust and I am left wondering what more I will lose in life. It's true that nothing stays forever but I was expecting the site to outlive me, at the very least. An unbelievably sad day indeed. I will miss the articles and it will be hard trying to find something decent to fill the void. Tomshardware is just not it for me. Sorry. But it's just not it. Thank you, AT staff for your great service to your readers and I hope all of you find success and happiness in your future endeavors.
Built my first box in 1999 (Celeron 300 overclocked to 450) with the help of knowledge I got here. This site has been so refreshing in the sense that I could always count on honest, thorough and in depth articles that I could base decisions on in my own tech endeavors. Your reporting will be missed in a world of Youtube sensationalists.
I don't know when I first discovered AT but I'm pretty sure it was in the '99-00 range since I have a strong memory of reading AT on the classroom computers at my junior high. In college I used to print out long articles before going in to classes in buildings that didn't yet have WiFi.
I loved all the deep dive articles that used to fill these pages. I learned so much that I never would have thought to look in to over the years. I've missed them as they became less and less frequent.
Thank you to everyone who made AnandTech what it is, a sincere and thoughtful publication that educated, revealed, and analyzed tech: Ryan, Ian, Andrei, Gavin, Ganesh, Brett, Donovan, Joshua, Billy Tallis, and of course Anand.
So much of my own thinking, writing, and analysis has drawn from the prolific AnandTech archives, challenging my processes and more often than not, pointing me in the right direction.
Not only for technology, though, but simply put, journalism as a whole across any field. Trust us when we say in many other fields, people would give the world over to have a *free* publication like AnandTech educating millions. It is simply unheard of.
Thank you all for the lifelong mark you've made on the world at large. I hope to see AT's core mission as a bulwark against principle-less, rigor-less, and often useless "reporting" truly revitalized, if not literally but spiritually.
That is what we owe the current and next generation of readers.
Aw, man! :-( Although I could see the writing on the wall, I was hopeful this day wouldn't come. I've been reading the news, reviews, and using the bench feature for easily 20+ years now, and have always been able to count on the integrity that this site provides. I've used many hardware testing articles here to assist with my computer hardware purchases, especially SSD testing. I've always thought Anandtech was the epitome of SSD testing sites (especially back in the beginning).
Thank you for your years of service to better the internet world, Ryan. Good luck to you.
I'm sad another of my RSS feeds is going dark. You will be missed.
I feel a bit sad. The loss of one of the most detailed engineering focussed journalistic resources. :-( I haven't been a part of the forum side of things much at all, but I've visited the website (and later the RSS feed) almost every day since about the late '00s, learnt a lot from the in-depth knowledge of each author's area of specialisation, and even recommended products and strategies to people due to a large part of the scientific and detailed approach to the writing.
The Bench has been _incredibly_ useful to me over the years. Time to ask The Internet Archive team if they would be so kind as to archive the entire site. :-/
A big thank you to everyone involved. <3
This made me smile, at least: "For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of a long journey – one that started with a review of an AMD processor, and has ended with the review of an AMD processor." From the K6 to the Ryzen 9 9950X - a slight performance improvement. :)
What will happen to The Bench, please? What is the possibility that the database that powers the bench can be archived on GitHub or The Internet Archive so that people can download it and have access to the data, please? Heck, even as a big simple CSV if necessary.
Thank you for all of your hard work over the years! This site was always my go to site for everything technical and it is truly sad to see it go. I’m truly at a loss to find a substitute to the level of technical nuance that the deep dives provided me. Best of luck on your journey onward.
Wow, it's the end of an era. There are so many tech purchases I made (or avoided!) after reading AnandTech articles. The ASRock 939Dual-Sata2 Athlon 64 x2 motherboard during the transition from AGP to PCIe back in 2006 or the Sandy Bridge i7-2600 that feels like last year but I'll have to stop using when Windows 10 hits EoL next year. It was almost a religion.
Still, it's better that you could walk away before editorial freedom ran out, it would have been so much worse if the site died a slow, clickbait death. There are other publications that where not so lucky, becoming sad zombie versions of themselves.
It's a very sad day. I have been reading the articles here for many years, I have been informed about your tests for a long time. There are a lot of worthless pages alive and well, so those of you who publish useful informal content will be closed. I am so sorry that this day has come. I wish you all the best!
I deeply appreciate your dedication and efforts Ryan. This has always been my favorite tech site since it first began in the '90s and I am sad to see it shut down. But as you said, nothing lasts forever and Anandtech had an epic run. Wishing you and the team the very best.
I wonder if any of the constant whiners will regret getting what they wished for every time they complained about the slower time to publish due to Anandtech's in-depth coverage. Now all we have left is click-bait and shallow coverage, which sadly it seems is all people want.
Thanks for all the good reads. My company logo used to be the AT colors 2002 onward out of respect. I loved that there was a platform that not only had enthusiasts, but even better, very knowledgeable writers and commenters. Safe travels, to all of you.
This is truely a sad day. Anandtech has always been the proof that the internet is not useless when it comes to tech reviews and learning articles. I sincerely hope someone or something will surface again with anandtechs spirit and sense of details. There are no other sites I know of that is not superficial or sensation/clickbait driven. I refuse to support that kind of journalism….
Thank you Ryan and all the best in your future endevours.
Thanks for the decades of contributing and educating the scene! I'm gonna miss getting banned from here over arguments but I'll never forget all the fun and knowledge Anand contributed to the community.
Sorry to hear. Im also confused why the article commenting system has no ability to see past comments or replies? Also, how come the forum login is separate from the article comment?
Hearth breaking news. Goodbye the site I love the most ever since I discovered it 5 years ago. I will forever remember the joy I had reading deep dive articles that miles beyond what other sites. I was so sad seeing farewell post from Andrej, then Ian. They have their reasons, but in the end I belive it just that they want to try new stuffs which eventually worked out for them. I was hoping that we could find talents to go along with Gavin and Ryan, but I guess that didnt come to pass. Farewell and good luck to all the editors. Bik from Vietnam.
Thank you all for the hard work over the years. This site has been an important source for me since around 1999. Through college, grad school, and now into my semiconductor career. Good luck on your next adventures!
Like so many others on here, I am grateful for the years of quality tech journalism. Anandtech set the standard for me of what a hardware site should be. I feel a sense of grief and loss at this news. Thank you for everything.
Anandtech was a huge part of my teens and 20s. I remember defending its journalism quality after Tom's Hardware seemed to lose theirs after their seminal 1.13GHz Pentium 3 instability issues, after which they were mysteriously very pro-Intel. I remember, as the first moderator and assistant editor on StorageReview.com, using Anandtech as the benchmark of objectivity for our work, and the content of our forums.
I feel a great loss as I see Anandtech go, but I do feel it is time. After both Tom's and Anandtech were acquired by the same company, after the fire that destroyed the GPU testing lab, and after the widespread demise of excitement in the PC market, the writing was on the wall from any angle. It is time to pull the plug, but I will miss Anandtech long after its passing.
Thank you, editors, for maintaining your integrity in the face of ever increasing market headwinds, to the very end, an end which would have come regardless -- but would have otherwise ended a penny richer, but a soul poorer.
I purchased my first computer in 1997. Anandtech and Thresh's Firing Squad were my two most frequently visited sites for years. I've been on the Anandtech forums about as long lurking and created an account in 2003 to participate in the FS/FT forum very heavily for many years; my first transaction was 08/27/2003 and is my first feedback on Heatware.
But enough about me. Anandtech has taught me so much over the years. Your technical articles are very approachable for the enthusiast, but not so dumbed down as to be fluff; it's a great balance your editors have handled well and I'm better off for it. Thank you for all the articles and I'm sad to see this site shut down. Best of luck in all the staffs' professional and personal endeavours going forward.
i am a better, more knowledgeable person because of this website and the people who worked here, wrote here and commented here over the years. you will all be missed but not forgotten. thanks for all the laughs, weird personal essays from commentors, and brilliant teardowns or equipment that help shape who i am today. i wish all of you, everyone one of you, the best in all our endeavors, and thank you for from the bottom of my heart and the depths of my meager brain.
For someone who hammers out a fair amount of writing during any given day, I can't help but find myself at a bit of a loss for words at this news.
Thank you, Ryan, and thank you to Gavin, Ganesh, E. Fylladitakis, Billy Tallis, Anton, Ian, Gary Key, Jarrod Walton, Derek Wilson, Brett Howse and the many other writers and contributors who (along with Anand, of course) helped establish a pillar of tech journalism.
Thank you for continuing to keep the site accessible going forward, along with retaining the forums. Doing so is a considerate and compassionate decision and just further demonstrates the ethos and integrity that this publication has shown from the very start.
It's strange to look back at the absolute whirlwind of technology advancements that have been experienced over the years since Anand first started this site (remember the original Geocities site?). The K6 and Pentium fight, Cyrix 6x86 chips, Transmeta's Crusoe and IBM's Blue Lightning. From the Celeron "450A" to the Duron and T-Bred/T-Bird, witnessing the transition from TNT to GeForce, the rise of solid state storage, accelerated physics, compute accelerators, the meteoric rise of the smartphone segment and all of the parallel fabrication process wars, it has been a genuinely remarkable journey.
For you, your staff and any other aspiring technology writers, consider that this also marks an opportunity. AnandTech has set a very high bar with regard to process, procedure, ethical guidelines and generally positive tone. These are qualities that can and should be folded into emerging media. In a world of attention seeking, there is room for nuance, and I hope we see outlets refresh, adapt and take this torch and run with it. AnandTech wasn't perfect; segments were left underreported and publication frequency criticisms were valid, but it was always even tempered, thoughtful and above all else, professional.
From this original reader, you have my sincerest gratitude. Thank you to everyone for all that you have done, and no doubt, for all that you will continue to do.
-Slash3 / AK-Brian (Just checked my forum signup date - Dec, 1999! Oof, my bones!)
It really is the end of an era. Thank you to Anandtech and all it's staff for keeping us not just informed but actually educating and teaching us about technology over all these years. The 2000s in particular were an amazing time where it felt like AT, technology, and the reader were growing together and AT had an outsized influence on tech consumers and hardware companies. You will be dearly missed.
Tech as a physical consolidator claims economic, society and holistic expansion, never-the-less and in the end, over and over through time, and by warping time, proves a concentrating force. mb
This is so sad to hear. I hope that the staff land on their feet quickly. I have loved reading this site. It definitely taught me so much about technology and shaped me. Thank you At for your work!
I hope that whoever wrote the core-to-core latency testing goes to Tom's. This is the only place on the internet I have found who does that!
Thank you for everything and farewell. Anandtech has been part of my computing life since I was in college (~2000), and has been a positive force for so many of us nerds!
Oh. I still got an account :) Thanks a lot for all the tests, reviews and in dept analysis Anandtech has done over all the years! If I REALLY wanted to know something about CPU/GPUs I always found myself coming back here.
Anandtech, I've been following this site since ~1997 or '98. This is disappointing news. I hope that the site will be archived because I still refer to your reviews from the 90s and early 2000s. I wish the team luck on their new ventures.
I first found Tom's Pabst guide and Anandtech shrotly after. Loved both, but always thought Anand was a little bit more my 2 cents. Never thought I'd see Anand fail before Toms.
Shitty news. I home Thomas and Anand are doing ok in whatever they do now.
This makes me sad to read. Had to log in and post one last comment after mostly lurking for twenty years. Thank you for staying such a good part of the web for so long. You will be missed.
I've been reading since the beginning, before the K6-2 review launched "Anandtech 2.0". Now I work at AMD and this site is probably one of the big reasons why. Thanks for everything!
Wow, this makes me really sad. Thank you all for the years of excellent coverage, reviews, and keeping it simple. I think I speak for a lot of users who cannot register when I say I am not sure where I am going to go for news now, maybe besides Ian.
I sincerely appreciate everyone's work here, thank you all so much.
Haven't use my account in years, but managed to dig up the log in information because I felt it was important to say thank you for the anandtech team has done over the years. There has been reliably informative writing and reviews that have both stated curiosity and guided builds and decisions on tech in my personal life. I have a better understanding and as a result been better at supporting other who are not so tech inclined thanks to this great website over the decades. I hope all the staff are moving on to other great pursuits.
thanks for all those awesome reviews and great work. i'm pretty sure will miss anandtech. I do appreciatte the fact that you keep forums working, all the contrary of what dpreview did sometime back. Forums like this, and what dpreview was, are much more than a company, there is a lot of wisdom, a great community around and quite a unique place of gathering. Wish the team all the best.
I’m 58 yrs old. I started an ISP in 1995. I’ve been reading Anandtech since 1997. I used Anandtech articles to guide our purchasing decisions. I still visit from time to time. Sad to see you go.
I’ll also shout out for all peeps who don’t have an account to log in to express their sadness. 😭
Thank you for the wonderful technical articles that have been posted over the decades. I'm sorry that we took Anandtech's quality, evenhanded writing (though naturally carrying excitement for new hardware through) and lack of baiting for granted. You will be greatly missed, but never forgotten.
I, personally, can't stand the excessively opinionated, click-baity "hot takes" in videos to drive revenue. I understand it, but it's not quality journalism as was found here. It's more like tech's version of bad reality TV.
Thank you again for your high-quality contributions to the tech world! I hope the written form won't completely die out, but judging by the endless video content we have now, we'll be so much worse off without it. Best of luck to all of you, including any AT alumni.
So sad to see this. I still remember doing my first custom build back in 1997 based on Anand's reviews. All the best to everyone who works at AnandTech and contributed in the past. You made something special and there won't be anything like it ever again.
This article breaks my heart. Anandtech is one of the sites on my bookmark list that I open every single day for the last many years. I am sad you guys are shutting down.
Thank you for the amazing journey all these years. Anandtech has seen me from my first computer to who knows how many I am on now. Your insight will be sorely missed and remembered fondly.
This was the very first website I visited all those years ago on my hand me down 486, on the living room floor, over 14.4k dialup. I remember the guilt after being confronted by my dad over an almost £200 telephone bill that month. Oh, the memories.
I'm certain I haven't been here for all 27 years. But I'm fairly certain it's been 26. I got out of school in 1998 and very soon found TomsHardware and Anandtech. I would hit the refresh button several times a day, hoping for more news. My life has changed as well since that time. But I've been coming to Anandtech almost daily for years. I respect and appreciate your reporting and reviews. I'm very sorry to see you go. Good luck to all of you.
Dangit! Anandtech has provided the most thorough reviews of technology that applies to me and my work. I will miss your well-written, thoughtful discussions of relevant topics.
AnandTech was my go to source for in-depth reviews and articles. Thank you to all the editors and staff for being that great source of information. Farewell and good luck.
Thankful I still have a login to post a goodbye! This site got me interested in computer hardware back in 2007. I have a lot to thank you for, but mostly that you have been one the premier reporting sources that I have always respected. Anand reviews were worth the wait for their quality. I would use your homepage to test if the internet was working, and will dearly miss new content. THANK YOU!!
As a society we must move journalism past the advertising-driven business model before the remaining reputable sources end in a similar way. Ian and team, many thanks for your tireless work and high standards.
I began regularly reading Anandtech in 2015, when I was 17yo. It's the reason why I got so involved with computers and chose to study computer science. Thank you for everything!
This is a saddest day for me to see Anandtech is shutting down. I have learned a lot from this website. You had a great influence on me when I started to be a tech journalist myself, and even when I retired from that job (which was my best job ever!), I still keep Anandtech on top of my feed reader. I wish good luck to you all and thank you again for everything you brought to the world of tech.
Well shit. I've been reading AnandTech since about 1998 or so - almost its entire history. I've never been a real active commenter or anything, but I had to dust off my old account to pay my respects and say farewell!
It's become a habit checking AnandTech, whether on the phone or computer, and this Friday afternoon, what sad news to find at the top. It feels like grief.
Though knowing of the site before, I only began reading AT seriously in 2013, and it has been a constant ever since. It was sad to see Anand go in 2014 and now, a decade later, the site. AnandTech, Koroush Gazi's TweakGuides, and X-bit Labs were the chief computer sites I would read, learning so much and being entertained while doing so. AT will be remembered as the gold standard of tech journalism. Thanks for all the hard work, Ryan, for your decorum, humility, and integrity. Thanks to all editors and writers past and present. It was, and is, much appreciated. All the best. Thanks, Anand, for starting it all. I fondly remember your CPU articles and the way you made these things accessible to the layman. The titles were whimsical and humorous too: Pentium 4's heatsink was "Mount Everest," Core i7 was "The Dark Knight," for Athlon 64, it was "Judgement Day," Barton "Cut It Close," and the list goes on. Your words have sunk into my mind. To think, quality like AT fails to find a place because of money, but truckloads of rubbish prosper.
I never went onto the forums but enjoyed the conversation in the comments. Sometimes, we derailed it to topics far from computers! We used to debate a lot, and I will miss it.
As the ship drifts fatefully towards the black hole, and, to outside observers, time dilation freezes it for what seems an eternity, we say, "See you on the other side, dear friends. You will always remain in our hearts."
> It was sad to see Anand go in 2014 and now, a decade later, the site.
10 years, to the day! Coincidence? Or was there some sort of agreement in place with the publisher to keep it alive for at least that long?
> The titles were whimsical and humorous too
Yes, good point.
> I never went onto the forums but enjoyed the conversation in the comments. > Sometimes, we derailed it to topics far from computers! > We used to debate a lot, and I will miss it.
Same. I'll fondly remember many of our wide-ranging discussions.
We'll never know the answer, or at least not until the full story is told years hence; but I reckon it was coincidence: that when the time approached and it turned out to be the same period of Anand's leaving, perhaps they thought it would be fitting. Ian, I think, said that the publisher notified them two weeks ago.
Fantastic discussions that had real ideas in them and will be fondly remembered. Many thanks, brother.
> Ian, I think, said that the publisher notified them two weeks ago.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I never followed him over to his new platforms. I don't do youtube or Twitter/X, but maybe I'll check out his substack or whatever.
> Many thanks, brother.
You too, bro. I think of you when I hear news of South Africa. Lets hope more of it is good news!
I don't follow Ian's YouTube channel, but his reflections on AT was notable and necessary watching for all readers of this site.
Well, we had our elections earlier this year, and there was a big change where the ANC, which had been in power since 1994 after the end of apartheid, lost the majority, leading to a coalition government. It is better, and I think most people, having grown fed up with the government and its lies, feel the same. Whether things will change for people on the ground remains to be seen; but after all, these are the problems inherent in capitalism, "democracy," and other applauded systems on Earth. In America, too, the game show for the White House continues :)
Wow.... kind of can't believe it! I was a massive fan since ~'99-2000, when AnandTech and Tom's Hardware were what I learned computer hardware on as a 90s kid in high school! Even as I actively avoided going into a tech career, I still ate up AnandTech as a massive computer enthusiast! And so much of that knowledge gained from chipset and CPU reviews served me well when I finally capitulated and got on a career track doing IT work.
I remember around 2007-8 when Tom's was chopped up, and the quality dipped, and it was like... well... At least there is still AnandTech for quality content! But around that time computers started lasting more than a year or two, so there wasn't that driving requirement to get the deep dive scoop on every chipset release, or minor change. Video reviewers, while not as detailed, were 'good enough' to keep up with the highlights of tech changes, and I pretty much only came back to read up when prepping to build a new PC every 5-6 years. When Anand left I kind of thought that was the end of the site, and am fairly impressed it has lasted this long under corporate management that clearly doesn't understand the audience.
But I wish all of the writers well! I'm sure you guys know that many who have left article writing under a publisher to focus on making their own content focused on their own niche interests have done well for themselves, and I hope you guys can all follow suit! Truly the end of an era, but it has far more to do with trends in consumption than the writers or topic, and I think if you follow the trends on how the topic is consumed, then you will find a much larger and supportive audience out there! Best of luck!
Sorry to read this, this website was my bible from 2000 for many many years, I learnt so much and I can only say thanks to all!! Hope you can all find nice jobs and have a great life beyond Anandtech.com. I will miss you!
Thanks for everything, Ryan and team. I've enjoyed my many years of lurking and am very sad to see the end of Anandtech, but as they say, all good things...
I recall Anand's 15-25 page motherboard reviews ("the Shrimp" as he was affectionately called) and enjoyed them. Last I heard Anand went to Apple, and got married. Yes, times move on, don't they? I wish you well Ryan in your future endeavors, always remember that "the glass" is half full as opposed to half empty!
Very sad news indeed. Over the years, Anandtech has been a terrific technical resource.
Having said that, I can’t say I’m surprised. The writing has been on the wall for the past couple of years as talent left and the quality and quantity of coverage dwindled down.
Long time reader/lurker. I think my first AnandTech review was either the Athlon XP or GeForce 4 reviews. From figuring out if I could play DOOM3 to informing every new computer build since 2002... So glad I made an account though so I could let you know how formative AnandTech was in my life. I work in IT now and I don't believe my interest in tech would have been the same if it wasn't stoked by the in-depth analysis you've provided over the years.
Truly a great loss in the world of tech journalism. Thanks for everything.
Hmm ... about time ? Maybe my interests changed in those 27 years but I feel that Anandtech did not keep up the quality in the last 10 or so years ? I have discovered Anandtech a bit after Tom's Hardware almost as they started (I was 16 back then). I have followed both for a long time. I have given up on Tom's some years ago, it was no longer the site I grew to like. Then things changed at Anandtech (mostly Anand going away) and the quiality started sliding. The last few years, I'd still pop in daily but it was an exception that I actually read an article or read it in full.
Having said that, it still saddens me to see a part of my daily routine vanish.
Sad to see Anandtech go. I've been reading the site almost as long as it has been around. For a very long time it has been one of the websites that I visit daily. I wish you and the staff the best of luck in your future endeavors.
the most shocking news! thank you Ryan, Anand and your colleagues thanks for all the enlightenment you have provided about technology during these many years wish you the best ^_^
Wow, what a sad day. I used to read anandtech voraciously back in my teens and 20s (now almost 40). I petered out a bit as I got older but still hold a special place in my heart for your thorough and inciteful reviews. Pour one out for AnandTech!
Can I please thank the whole team for their amazing output over the years. I just realised that the first PC I self built was an AMD K6 233MHz (after I was thororoghly done with an AMD 386DX40), and the review that made me select this CPU was Anand’s first review on this website! Also had a few misfires (Samsung 840 SSD which I still use although is as slow now as the 2nd article said it would become) but hey, so what!
I still follow Ian via Patreon and Tech Tech Potato.
Thanks for developing and launching your fellow journalists.
It truly is a sad day that a site as impactful and informative as AnandTech has to close its doors.
This site more than any other impacted my perspective on the scale, importance, and sheer interesting detail behind the technology we so often take for granted. I have learned a lot from the various editors over the years and followed their career paths as they've become integral cogs within the very systems they (critically and fairly) reviewed.
Thank you, Ryan, and the final team at AnandTech. You will be sorely missed.
I still remember the first article I read here -> an article on overclocking the Celeron 300A to 450 Mhz... and a review for the Creative Labs Graphics Blaster TNT videocard (Using Nvidia Riva TNT) over the more dominant 3dfx card that used Glide at the time. Info I used for my first self-built PC build... (I had built a couple of 386 and 486 PCs but never assembled them, short of changing our some PCI or ISA cards, etc...) That was want 98 or 99... Crazy you guys have hung around this long (and Toms of course too... which was a competitor at the time...)
This is so sad. I remember reading Anandtech back when it was hosted on Geocities. Thank you for all the great articles, and the best of luck to all the staff.
You started out just a couple of years before I started working full time in tech. You've been there my entire career, producing great content that always sort to go beyond the numbers and the marketing blurb, to try to figure out at least partly why various processors, GPUs etc. performed better (or worse) than competitors. Your in depth reviews are what kept me coming back all these years.
Most of your competitors either just spew out benchmark figures with no actual analysis, or spew out whatever marketing drivel they've been pitched.
The industry is going to be much, much worse without you in it.
Thank you so much for all your amazing work over the years.
Thank you, and I'm very sorry to see you go. Your transparency, topicality, and focus made the site invaluable to me personally, 'daily driver' level. It probably helped me to help one or more of my employers as well.
Farewell Anandtech. It's been real. It's been around 25 years since I discovered Anandtech. And I met Anand way back in the day when NYC still had a PC Expo.
Very sad day! I have been reading AnandTech since the beginning, and it’s hard to believe it’s coming to an end after 26 incredible years. Your in-depth reviews, insightful articles, and dedication to tech journalism have been unparalleled. Thank you for being a trusted source of information and a beacon in the tech community. You will be greatly missed!
This makes me so sad. This site has been an oasis in a sea of mostly regurgitated press releases. Thanks for the many years of great articles, and RIP :-(
Sad to see Anandtech go. I feel like tech journalism is dead. I noticed it was dying when techreport was shutdown and turned into a fake tech site, I hope I don't see the same for Anandtech. The old web is gone, and now everything is ticktock and youtube.
Thank you for your hard work Ryan and crew! Sad to say goodbye.
Thanks for everything guys! You did an amazing job, all your articles have been insane, no other website was or is comparable to you. You have been in my (not just) tech life close to 20 year, to say you will be missed is an understatement.
Although nothing lasts forever it's still kind of a shock for me to see Anandtech go. However, I had a feeling that this day would come as the frequency of articles slowed down quite a bit. When I had my first computer in 1997, Anandtech sparked my interest in tech in general, and it has been an inspirational source for my passion for tech ever since. Thanks for the journey! Farewell!
And so goes the last vestige of a professional-grade comment system — one free of the downvoting + post hiding bloodsport. No hierarchical nonsense based on tiresome cliques and echo chamber tactics. No gaudy design. One where people can't 'ninja' their comments.
I've been involved in the article comments for a really really long time. It has been great to see Anandtech's comments system persist for so long, despite the attempts by some commenters to badger the management into adopting the latest in trendy comment devolution, such as shadow banning by AI.
If I can offer one adage for people to live by in terms of technology: Progress is not always progress.
Thanks for the great discussions and debates, Oxford Guy, from Bulldozer to religion. I know we've not always agreed, but that's a good thing, because conversation with only agreement leads to nothing. I appreciated your criticism of the forces we see ruining the world, and sadly, AnandTech is another casualty of the selfsame thing.
I'll miss you as well. It was refreshing to see someone who took the time and effort to respond to posts with consideration rather than flippant furor.
Take care, Oxford Guy. I'll concede that you were right in at least some of our debates, and often had at least a couple good points. From what I recall, the main issue I had with your posts was when you were grinding an axe that too often had a tenuous connection to the article and even seemed well past time to bury (e.g. AMD's Vega).
I credit Anandtech for keeping me interested in technology enough to make a career out of it. And for explaining some concepts better than my classes did. Thanks for everything!
So long guys, you are the last one to shut down on my most favorite PC hardware website list of all time!
This site is not just a piece of IT history, but it's part of mine. I'm about the age of Anand and I remember some discussions around the year 2k I had with him and other enthusiasts here over some hardware stuff. To me, this website was THE primary source for well written in-depth reviews with reliable data on performance, features and functionality.
all good thing must come to an end. I hope at least the website can remain in one way or another. I just scraped some of the articles for my own personal memory/archive ;-)
Well. I'll make this my last comment too. I've been a reader of AnandTech since the very beginning. (did change screen names along the way, leaving my real name off internet forums).
Toms and Anand were both key to me starting a small PC Build to Order Business in late 1997, turning a hobby into a business. That morphed into a Tech Support and Application Development practice. Ultimately morphed into the Automation and Controls Consulting work I do today.
I still build my own desktop PCs. Probably will build the last desktop PC of my professional carreer in Q2 2005 and it will see me off to retirement a few years off. Been a fun ride.
I first found Anandtech in about 1999 while working as an engineer at Intel. Intel's internal web site had a list of useful recommended external sites, which is where I found Anandtech. I have been checking it pretty much first thing daily ever since. Although the frequency and scope of articles has diminished in recent years, the quality has remained outstanding. I hoped it would survive forever... Now I hope to see all the writers and editors pop up on other sites, bringing their proven skills with them, so that we may continue to benefit and enjoy them, and be well-informed. Thank you for all the great years, so far...
This is a sad day - Anandtech certainly stopped being a daily read for me shortly after the Purch buyout but even after that there was some quality journalism and plenty of reasons to keep visiting the site. I need to thank the staff past and present for their service and hope you all find rewarding positions elsewhere in the ever-shrinking world of written tech journalism.
Fortunately, we have ArsTechnica, where comments are hidden simply because they're unpopular (regardless of how truthful they are — humorous for a site that cosplays as having something to do with knowledge of Latin, implying knowledge of fallacies) and certain staff are openly unprofessional and ignorant in the comments, TechSpot — where if right-wing propaganda comments are well-countered by effective analysis someone from staff pops in to warn everyone to 'stay on-topic', and the plethora of sites that required invasive Disqus and similar that do things like shadow ban based on innocuous keywords and where we're treated to PR fluff annoyances like "How do you rate the discussion's toxicity?". If we don't like these things, we have YouTube, about which nothing needs to be said.
Anandtech was an oasis, mostly free from vacuous political posturing pretending to be progressive innovation. I can't recall, for instance, a single whinge comment about 'woke' this and only a single discussion about 'DEI' that. That seems to be largely due to the comments system's design not encouraging bad behavior. That the staff clearly did not use sockpuppet accounts to push political propaganda was also a factor.
One of the most egregious lies in tech commentary is that notion that 'politics' is a separate thing that doesn't intrude into general tech discourse. Everything is political, actually. However, there is a crucial difference between substantive political analysis and vapidity.
The reason there's almost no political comments is because they were moderated out. I know, because I responded to some of them.
But as for "Everything is political, actually," that's a world view that people either adopt or are forced into. Think about it, science was advanced to this marvelous point we have today because people were willing to put aside politics and focus on objective reality. That's why most publications of yore lack anything political at all.
As for why, the answer is easy. If everything is religious, then random people can't control the narrative because there's a pope in the way. Likewise, if everything is science, that is, objective, then once again, who can fight reality and win? But politics isn't like that. Ever changeable and based on how we organize society, they just insert themselves to change that society and disorder the ordered portions. Thus power and control are theirs for the taking.
Everything is religious but not for the reason most people believe. Everything is religious because, from the point of view of the university (perfect objectivity), our lives have no meaning. Therefore, all things we think are important — that thinking is religious in nature.
Regardless, that has nothing to do with the fact that everything in human society is political. The only way to avoid it is to have no society.
> Everything is religious ... Out of curiosity, is that viewpoint a result of a reductionist mindset which ignores, for example, the various human drives for survival, or are you fundamentally expanding on the teaching in The Bible, namely, that "God is love," and thus all acts of truly caring for oneself or others are loving in nature and thus religious?
> Regardless, that has nothing to do with the fact that everything in human society is political. The only way to avoid it is to have no society.
True, but that doesn't mean that politics must be subjective. If you start from a scientific point of view you'll quickly see that intellectual dishonesty makes no sense. US politics, which today is pretty much based on intellectual dishonesty, must, therefore, not be based on objective truth/scientific principles. In saying that I, or we, believe not all things are political or wish the aforementioned, we are referring to that particular subjectivism for which current politics, at least in the US, is so infamous.
Bally: 'is that viewpoint a result of a reductionist mindset which ignores, for example, the various human drives for survival'
Calling genetic impulses reductionist is redundant.
Genetic impulses don't a philosophical system make.
The bottom line with my comment clearly has nothing to do with a particular form of religion. The religious nature of our lives is the fact that, objectively, our existence has no purpose. We invent that and that is religious.
'If you start from a scientific point of view you'll quickly see that intellectual dishonesty makes no sense.'
See the Prisoner's Dilemma and its extensions, for a start. Dishonesty absolutely makes sense for humans. It's one of the most basic steps in developmental psychology. Children who do not lie have a massive intellectual problem. From a larger point of view, it is true that dishonesty is irrational. Humans, including those genetic impulses you spoke of, are fundamentally irrational.
The irony is that AI is perhaps humanity's best hope for finally 'achieving' rational governance.
Genetic engineering to improve global IQ (not in a petty classist way) is the other method but the world can't even manage to reform English spelling and America can't manage a metric conversion. Signs do not point to us getting there. We're far too invested in our pettiness.
> Calling genetic impulses reductionist is redundant. (You lost me on this one.)
> Genetic impulses don't a philosophical system make. I wasn't trying to say that our impulses do make a philosophical system, only that they are not scientific nor religious in nature, though they may be explained scientifically. E.G. why do some people prefer rap over rock music? It's rather subjective and not religious. No religion I ever read up on had god saying, "Thou shalt rap, before thou rockest thy music."
> The bottom line with my comment clearly has nothing to do with a particular form of religion. The religious nature of our lives is the fact that, objectively, our existence has no purpose. We invent that and that is religious.
Or is it that a God exists and, therefore, the only way our lives can be reasonable is in light of that God through that particular religion which adheres to Him? You see, your argument is basically that nothing (the non-existence of God), is more powerful than something, with that something being God. But at least in my own life, I find that I, who am something, am more powerful than nothing, such as ghosts (which don't exist and so are a nothing). Likewise, we can derive the existence of God simply by eliminating all possibilities which lead to the fall of the being in question.
>> If you start from a scientific point of view you'll quickly see that intellectual dishonesty makes no sense.
> See the Prisoner's Dilemma and its extensions, for a start. Dishonesty absolutely makes sense for humans. It's one of the most basic steps in developmental psychology. Children who do not lie have a massive intellectual problem. From a larger point of view, it is true that dishonesty is irrational. Humans, including those genetic impulses you spoke of, are fundamentally irrational.
Notice, I'm talking about the scientific point of view. Not the point of view of a prisoner trying to escape justice, nor of a spy trying to evade exposure. If I'm a scientist, then I observe the universe and relate what I have learned. But if I relate intentionally misleading data, then the truths of the universe are not exposed, but instead hidden still further.
Therefore, the entire existence of "science," as it is called, is based on the understanding that all scientists, without exception, will seek to produce valid data -- even if that data is too narrow in scope or affected by some other thing which the scientist is unaware of.
Likewise, the foundation of logic is truth. "Elephants are pink. Nelly in an elephant, therefore Nelly is pink," is perfectly logical. But because of the flawed data it's also dead wrong.
Thus, I propose that a true scientist, someone who loves reality, someone who's constantly wowed and thrilled at the awesomeness of the universe, would seek to be the most intellectually honest person in the whole world.
> The irony is that AI is perhaps humanity's best hope for finally 'achieving' rational governance.
Humans are imperfect. AI is created by humans. Therefore, AI has been imperfectly created. Which is why I brought up Nelly above. You can try to nullify reality, but it doesn't work. At best, it only delays the inevitable fall of the facade.
> Genetic engineering to improve global IQ (not in a petty classist way) is the other method but the world can't even manage to reform English spelling and America can't manage a metric conversion. Signs do not point to us getting there. We're far too invested in our pettiness.
Again, technologies which would be used to modify DNA are used by imperfect humans. Therefore, we can't create better humans that way.
But more to the point. IQ is something both those who do good and those who do evil have. Take Hitler as an example. Would someone who's stupid be able to run for election, win the election, and then take over the whole country as dictator while simultaneously eliminating a significant portion of the population? (Not to mention militarily outsmarting and overthrowing a number of countries.)
I think that in time you'll find that the basis of success is in basic morality, not IQ, AI, or anything we invent.
Oxford Guy, I think that "our lives having no meaning or purpose" cannot be proved or disproved at present. We know very little of all there is to know, and much of existence is steeped in mystery. Of what came before our universe and what is beyond it, we have no certainty but only speculation. It could turn out that Life does serve some purpose in the long run. Leaving humans aside for a moment, one may ask, what is the purpose of the universe? Some will say there is no purpose. However, there is a mystery, unsolved right now, related to information, entropy, and black holes; I should not be surprised that our universe has a function: perhaps it is a cosmic hard drive of some sort, a computation device, or a compression artefact.
Coming back to life on Earth, atoms don't have "meaning" in the sense we understand. Meaning is a human construct, so we have to go back to definitions and ask, from the universe's point of view, how would meaning be defined? Is sentience required to define it? We ourselves are composite beings, built upon layers of abstraction, and while we can be reduced to subatomic workings, there seems to be something emergent in consciousness at least. Can it be that life, or sentience, is a mechanism of the universe to perceive itself?
On AI and rational governance. Unfortunately, as AI stands at present, being a system trained on human data, one that can be curtailed but not programmed to be good, moral, or rational (as a classical program might), it seems they'll be just as problematic as us, if not more. Already, we've seen biases in AI, amplifying prejudices in training data; erratic behaviour demonstrated in early versions of "Sydney"; and hallucinations, passing off fiction as truth with a straight face. They are early versions of humans. The calculations these models use are mathematical, but the resulting network built out of training is anything but "rational." It is more like a map from one to another. In the same way, our brains are running on the mathematical laws of physics, but the product, put together a certain way, is often irrational.
> The reason there's almost no political comments is because they were moderated out.
Yup. I responded to some, as well.
> science was advanced to this marvelous point we have today because people > were willing to put aside politics and focus on objective reality.
Science could stay apolitical until it reached conclusions that clashed with certain world views. See Galileo.
> That's why most publications of yore lack anything political at all.
For a while, tech was a niche industry where capitalism was allowed to do its thing. I think the main things that changed are when it because the dominant platform for public discourse and then became a battlefield for geopolitical conflict and economic nationalism. Essentially, the politicization of tech was yet another example of something becoming a victim of its own success.
On a related note, the first time I really started to take computer security seriously is when hackers started stealing logins to financial accounts. Then, when ransomware happened, it took the importance of cybersecurity to a whole new level, even for the average user. For sure, governments and big institutions always had to worry about hackers, but it used to be the case that you didn't have to worry much about being targeted if you had nothing of great value.
'For a while, tech was a niche industry where capitalism was allowed to do its thing. Essentially, the politicization of tech was yet another example of something becoming a victim of its own success.'
Translation: The politics of tech for some time were highly compatible with my worldview. The current politics of tech, not so much.
I think there's a lot of politics in physics today, as can be seen from scientists falling into string and non-string camps or "quantum mechanics is perfect" and "quantum is incomplete" camps. The latter, dealing in alternative approaches such as loop quantum gravity and taking the insights of general relativity seriously, are a minority. There seems to be a belief that GR must change to fit into the quantum picture, but talk of quantum mechanics' incompleteness is not seriously entertained. The fact is, both these theories are pointing to a deeper truth. As for the string theorists, their ideas are out of the reach of experiment at present and, therefore, as good as fantasy.
Then, to throw religion in here, some theories in physics are of a pseudo-religious nature, not being falsifiable, and much of the multiverse, many-worlds thinking is of this sort. If an infinite number of universes, coupled with the anthropic principle, are needed to explain our universe, its exact laws and constants, and life, how different is that from metaphysics operating in the religious domain, but falsely dressed up in the garb of science? Man will create or find God anywhere.
Well, at least science is science, where we expect objective facts to rule the day. But if we look at the world round us, Gaza being an instructive example, sections of the world are distorting the tragedy happening everyday, to square with their view of life. Otherwise, the truth might be uncomfortable. It seems, at the end of the day, everything is political.
'Well, at least science is science, where we hope that objective facts will rule the future.'
FIFY.
Politics in scientific circles can extremely seriously trump factuality for long periods of time. Just one example of many is the way the 'reduce sugar intake' was obliterated by 'reduce your fat intake' in nutrition science. Usually, the truth eventually comes out.
For some truths, though, we have been waiting for hundreds of years. At least one of them comes to mind right now that I am unable to post because of the incompatible of that truth with current politics masquerading as scientific fact.
This is just too sad. I have been a reader since 1998 I think. I learned a lot from here. Although there is less traffic in the forums lately due to the changes in the internet, anandtech.com is still the most visited website by all my machines since the 199x. Thanks a million.
RIP one of the greats, needed to evolve a bit with the times, but was always known to be good. Seen you guys around for about twenty odd years and always been impressed.
Fare thee well. It's been on the cards for a while, clearly. You now join a host of publications of superior quality that have faded off into the shadows, heads held high. I have been here since the first issue, as I was with the others. TTFN.
I’ve always been fascinated by computers, but had only read about them in books. I’d never seen a picture so when I found myself in front of a shop selling Nixdorf computers in my home town Berlin, I tried to catch a glimpse but only saw ordinary desks with typewriters. You don’t have oil tankers in a store that sells oil tankers either, I guess. And those might have been more common at the time. Perhaps even smaller. And cheaper.
At 17 I came to the US as an exchange student and got offered a “BASIC programming” course offered to high-school seniors by a small Ohio technical college.
That was in 1980 and the rest is history: I eventually studied computer science and never did any honest work since; instead I got paid for doing my hobby, and pretty well, I might add.
I was extremely lucky in that I decided on the most “professional” computing platform available at the time, the “[IBM] Personal Computer” and the fact that it became a 43 year [and counting] success story, that for a time at least replaced everything else there was, even very nearly the IBM mainframe, against which all things were then measured. And key to its and my success remained it accessibility and openness: I could always afford a state of the art machine, that might not be the biggest PC/x86 based machine out there, but which allowed you to extrapolate how the most giant variants would function, operate and perform from the box at your feet at home.
And that confident expertise, which came from having exhaustively validated everything I sold to customers and employers hands-on, supported my life and my family for my entire career.
Try doing that with Google TPUs or other exclusively cloudy stuff!
When I first discovered AnandTech, I had long since become renown as an expert beyond most. Even I believed that every now and then! But those kids dove deep and then explained stuff in such a wonderfully easy yet uncompromisingly accurate and scientific way, that got me very deeply hooked for perhaps only the last 15 years, which of course is only a small part of my run.
Hey, I did Fortran on a PDP-11/34 with magnetic core memory as a hustle, I even punched some Fortran on Hollerith cards! So all you milk-beards stop being so agile for a moment when I try to make a point! For me an interpreter starts with LISP not JavaScript or Python!
So in a way it’s fitting that AnandTech is shutting down as I am preparing for retirement, too. I may just not be able to afford going beyond the RTX 4090 for bigger LLMs and I’m no longer holding my breath for the 16TB of non-volatile yet perhaps computing Memristor-RAM in my workstation Martin Fink promised for The Machine. Mostly I see my secret weapon shrivel and die: the PC which allows anyone to do what the IBM mainframe never did: trying things yourself at home.
And the end of AnandTech is an obvious symptom of the final revenge of the mainframe, which came back as a cloud with a lock-in disguised behind figures CxOs just want to believe. They tend to forget that scale doesn’t work for them, but the other side.
abufrejoval has many interesting things to say. Just... sometimes, too many things, going off into too many directions.
Settling on one or two main points, ideally with a narrative through-line, can really help focus a post, tighten it up, and result in more people actually reading it.
but thank you Anandtech for being the first tech site I ever went to back when the Pentium CPU was the size of a Game Boy. and thank you for all the great info over the years.
yes - the entire industry changed a lot, but honestly I would not have followed tech as far as I did had I not kept up the review/reading. my brief stint in the hardware marketing industry resulted in the hosting of the MSI CES suite at Aria Hotel where I got to shake hands with Anand once. just once. but it was damn cool.
Thank you Anand, thank you Ryan, thank you Ian, thank you Andrei, thank you Anton, thank you Gavin, thank you Johan, thank you Billy, thank you Jarred!
And I am very, very, very utterly sorry I’ve only ever viewed your site with Ublock Origin turned on to full hilt and thus might have hastened your demise!
I don’t remember ever reading or heeding a single ad.
If indeed I had forgotten to turn on the shields before coming to one of my favorite sites, I hit the emergency stop immediately and made very sure indeed that the full block was now there before I dared to re-enter the likes of AnandTech, which would immediately become an immensly treacherous jungle without a full ad-block.
You see, I like ads about as much as I like torture, people singing out of tune (or no more than three tones in an entire song), YT videos which split your ear-drums or feature AI generated tonal agony: that is quite literally killing me!
And it won’t ever get me to purchase anything, ever! Torture can’t make me spend! A good tease will!
I’ve bought quite a few things based on what I read here. You definitely did your job in whetting my appetite and providing inspiration to my intellect, or perhaps only plausible excuses.
I’m just terribly sorry you didn’t get paid for that properly!
But that’s not really my fault, it’s the fault of whichever blithering idiot invented the ad-economy and sold management on it: sometimes I yearn for that iron maiden!
I *did* my share consuming, I swear!
That this didn’t translate into your bottom line is a tragic sorrow I shall carry to my grave…
Thanks to Anand and everyone who's contributed to the site. I've been reading since Core 2 was The Big Thing (and eventually owned my first one in a hand-me-down build) and the content here definitely helped push me on the technical path I've followed in the intervening, oh, 15 years. This will be an unfortunately quiet feed on my RSS reader going forward :(
Farewell. I’m a lifelong reader and went to high school with Anand. He brought the first digital camera I ever saw to trigonometry class one memorable day—it wrote to a mini-CD.
I have built half a dozen computers off of information I learned here, about one every 4-5 years for the past 25.
To make things even weirder, I ended up being an SEO professional and later an affiliate business executive at a large publisher. That was quite a seat! I routinely thought of what was going on in the industry relative to what was happening at AnandTech. I also sort of knew what was happening when it first sold.
This site had its run. But today, learning from Ian that Anand sold it to the same guys that owned the horrible Tomshardware, it was never going to make it. I mean, I hope Anand is happy working for one of the worst, ruthless megacorps of America.
Thank you to the entire Anandtech team for the past 27. I am not sure when exactly I started following the site but it was definitely pre-2000 when I was always planning my next custom workstation (either at home or at work) and advising friends and family on their needs. While I stopped rebuilding my PCs with any regularity about a decade ago , I still kept coming back to the site to know what was going on. When it came to indepth technology reporting ...none were better.
RIP, probably logged into this account last maybe 10 years ago. I used to read this site religiously. Before the purchase it was the best hardware site on the internet.
Definitely sad to see this. Pleased to have been a reader since near the beginning. Many great articles throughout the years that were so informative about new generations of hardware, and overall a site that was so much help when deciding how to spec out a new PC build. Farewell and all the best in your future endeavours!
User from like 2003. Lost my user don't know how. This one is from 2016. And as a silent reader I want to show you my personal appreciation for what in my view have always been: the most polite tech news medium of all. Politeness that I've always seen extensive to the user base I found in the forums. Life however is harsh in my country and my enthusiasm on Custom PC gaming building faded away. Not dissappearing. Just getting overhelmed by the need to thrive in life. But I comeback may be in the works. And if happens I will be in those forums asking for recomendations. Opening one of your articles was like opening a gift. So detailed that you could fantasized with it in your case use scenario. Good vibes. Internet is not the same with that old school journalism you have been working for. Thank chaps.
It's been years since I have actually bothered to login to post a comment but it would be rare to have a day past by without loading up AnandTech at least once to try and catch the latest tech news or read a well written and very informative review. This site will be missed and Tom's was never a fitting substitute (Go Team Anand!). Good luck to all on your future endeavors. Now I need to go scour the Intertubes for a suitable replacement!
I will miss this site so much, it's what started my interest in computers and kept me so interested in it for years later. I really don't know what i will do to keep my interest in technology without it. Going from voodooextreme as a young gamer, to an adult with a strong history in hardware. Thank you to everyone at Ananadtech for doing all you did. It has been a complete pleasure to read your content. The one and only site that i visit daily for new content will no longer be here. Thank you all, everyone over the years, for all you have done.
Truly a sad day. While the writing on the wall for written media has been obvious for quite a while, it's sad to see it hit the best sites first, and I really don't love the trend overall. I understand why video is more attractive for advertisers and why all the money seems to be there, but as a form of Internet media, it is obviously inferior in virtually every way.
The polemic aside though, thank you so much for all the good articles over the years. Anandtech is one of the main reasons why I started caring more about the hardware running the software that I write, and I've always looked forward to the deep dives of the latest chips!
I was a reader since the beginning and so I will add my condolences and thanks along with the countless others. Thanks for being a diamond in the rough of tech journalism. Hope you all land on your feet with something else you enjoy doing.
May all of us continue to stand up for honest and accountable journalism.
Wow. It seems I still have an account eve though I have no recollection of ever registering one. But it has been so many years. Thank you, team, for all your hard work over those almost 3 decades.
Extremely unfortunate, but sadly unsurprising. I'd like to express my gratitude for keeping the forums and all of the old reviews up for the foreseeable future so people can (hopefully) archive them - I was born after Anandtech was founded and sadly didn't get to experience it in its prime, but it's an invaluable reference for 90s/2000s retrocomputing and I know I'm not the only one who appreciates that. Thanks for the 25 years of reporting!
i'm so sad. you guys were one of the last remaining blogs that actually review items, like do actual in depth reviews. All the other blogs just have a bunch of affiliate links with low quality articles that care more about clicks than good quality articles, reviews that arent actually reviews and more of a hands on. I will miss this site greatly.
Thank you for everything. Most of what I know about PC tech I learned here. From K6 to Zen 5, from NV3 to Navi, I've read them all. You will be missed. Farewell.
Been around since the beginning - Oct 99, saw Anand buy his first BMW. Sad to see it go, it used to be a great place to get information and the forums were great fun. As Bob Hope used to say "Thanks for the Memories".
I don't know exactly when I first started visiting Anandtech, but I know the year still started in 19. Thank you for all the decades of scratching my itch to learn about technology and how it works.
I guess nothing is permanent. I kind of thought this site would exist forever. Heck, Fark is still going! But this takes a lot more work. Sad that such quality is gone. Hopefully it'll begin somewhere soon. Farewell Old Friend!
Thank you for all the great years of work and all the knowlegde teh team provided us all. You will all be greatly missed by the community. Best of luck on your future endeavors.
It's a bit like hearing about the passing of a school friend :( Anandtech was a staple of mine during the Anand days. I guess I've been part of the problem, though, as I've used YT to keep up to date on news for quite a few years now. But I pop over to Anandtech for the deep dive and the technical detail that often goes over my head, but I feel smarter just for being exposed to it :)
I wish everyone involved the very best for the future. "So long, and thanks for all the fish"
I did a lot of growing up with AnandTech always in the background. I imagine there are many that can say something similar. Nostalgia is hitting pretty hard right now. Thank you for all the memories.
This is very sad news to me... Thank you very much for all the years Ryan. Thanks a lot to everyone behind AnandTech. This site will always remain in my Favorites. I can't believe, this is the end... I wish you all the best!
In my view, Anandtech had the best technical review on the web for a very long time. Any time a new processor in particular came out, this is where I'd come to understand its architecture and performance. Thank you, you will be missed.
Holy shit man, I'm literally shocked. I admit I rarely bothered to log in in recent years (marriage, kids, divorce and so on - cycles of life), but AT is still part of my weekly readinf cyxle, for 20+ years now. So jow it only WAS...?? Oh man. :(( That being said, I hope you have some great plans for the future - good luck & tahnks for all the fishes!
I started reading AT to research my first build (Nehalem) and I just bought the 9950X after reading your final review. When I first started reading tech journalism no one else bothered to comment or write about warps, cache latencies or the anatomy of SSD. I am glad that is changing and I can confidently say AT played a big part in that. So thank you for everything.
I read Toms Hardware before AT existed. But AT for a while was my favorite during this site's golden era. I rarely checked AT recently, but THG is going strong. Fitting ending as I see it. I did enjoy these forums the most, but was banned multiple times, ATF was definitely a place where people played the rules, had biased mods and basically a women's social club of nonsense. I did get to say a lot of mean things to a lot of deserving targets though and kept coming back until the articles got less interesting.
RIP Anandtech and Anandtech forums. I had a lot of fun here.
Thank you Ryan and the rest of Anandtech for all the hard work over the years. I've been visiting the site since 2000 or so and have learned a lot. It will be strange to not be visiting it regularly for up to date hardware news and reviews, much like it was with other hardware sites that have either closed or changed dramatically, like TechReport, Firingsquad, nVnews, vr-zone, Hexus, HardwareSecrets, Rage3D, Beyond3D, SharkyExtreme... and probably others I am forgetting.
I will say though, "retro computing" is a big thing and Anandtech's articles (and Bench!) will continue to be a huge asset to that community. I know I look at the site regularly for that purpose, and I will definitely continue to do so as long as it stays online. :)
By 2024s Big Tech/Media finally killed off their "alternate" competitors by replacing them. AnandTech would have survived if the pre algorithm and pre bot era of the internet persisted. The internet became a private property from a public one slowly before our own eyes (Evolution of Youtube, Facebook is a good example).
Not remotely. The past couple years have indeed been pretty bleak, but you don't have to go back for to see some of the better CPU reviews & deep dives on the web.
This site helped popularize microbenchmarking, like the core-to-core latency benchmark and the use of SPECbench 2006 and 2017 test suites. SPECbench suites provided a far more apples-to-apples comparison between PC and mobile cores than black box benchmarks, like GeekBench. Furthermore, IPC performance wasn't something I'd seen discussed outside of Anandtech, until somewhat recently, and that's partly because few others were willing to take the time and trouble to try and measure it.
This site also had some of the most in-depth coverage of Apple's cores I've seen. That was hugely instrumental in countering some of the disinformation out there about them, by PCMasterRace and other fanboy types whose egos couldn't handle the notion that there could be anything technically superior about Apple products, much less something as fundamental as their uArch.
Wow. AnandTech's writers have always impressed me with their knowledge and professionalism. They earned my trust in a way that is hard to imagine these days. A sad day indeed.
To the entire Anandtech team. Thank you. I have enjoyed your content for 20+ years. Am equally distraught with the flavor of journalism today; 100% with Anand on his take of the fine line between academic/entertainment pieces.
Maybe that is just me getting older… regardless, Anandtech will be missed and thank you again for the numerous years of intellectually engaging pieces.
Your reviews quality is in unmatched, especially the drop down index of sections, the comparison tables and the benchmarks bar-charts. I've made some good buying decisions based on your reviews. Thanks and Goodbye.
It's very sad to see. It was a great journey and thanks so very much for the detailed and knowledgeable articles and reviews, even if I didn't understand most of them.
Unfortunately, the writing has been on the wall for several years now.
Thank you for many years of fantastic content! As many others have mentioned, you were a great inspiration back in the late ninties/early 2000s. Was fascinated by everything you wrote and pursued a CS degree and career in no small part because of it.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed over the years for the hard work you’ve put in to educate and entertain people, it’s been a great ride! Best of luck in the future!
Oh man. This takes a piece of my heart. I'm sure the core readership has gotten older (as have I) after relying on this website for nearly three decades of intelligent, in-depth, trustworthy analysis. My thanks to everyone who has made this place an incredible catalyst in the tech industry.
Very sad to read this :( I was in college when Anand launched the site. I remember the other big tech sites at the time were Tom's Hardware and Sharky Extreme. I have been a regular visitor all these years. I definitely want to thank you all for the wealth of articles over the years. Again, it is sad to see the site close. I guess people want to get their news on Tiktok or Youtube now :( Best of luck to you all!
I followed Anandtech since 1997, when an internet connection and computers were first available to me, almost coinciding with the birth of Anandtech. Checked it almost daily till 2014, when mobile phone started becoming more interesting. It was Anandtech which gave me confidence to choose my components wisely and always assemble it with the best than purchase from a company as a box. I'll miss it badly. This is my first comment and wanted to let you know that a fan existed in India who travelled yards with you all these years. My best wishes to all of you who were associated with the website till it last day.
You can all only be proud of the work done during all those years. We can only thank you for it as we've gotten so much out of it. Best of luck for future projects.
Thanks everyone for being a part of my (near) daily reads for over 23 years. About 8 years ago I had the good fortune to randomly meet Anand at a dinner party, and and got to thank him in person for the impact Anandtech had on my love of tech and hardware. Not all goodbyes are bad. Hope you're all still occupying some mental space of mine in another 23 years.
anandtech.com is basically muscle memory at this point. I don't even have to think about it to type it in. When I was younger I would read every review. Wondering what the next big thing in technology was. I used this site to inform myself before purchasing many PC builds. I remember trying to explain to everyone why SSD's were so much faster than hard drives and then linking them to reviews that Anand had done. Convinced they would upgrade themselves. It was a blast to hear them come back and say "Oh my gosh you were right, my computer is so much faster!" That wouldn't have been possible without the knowledge from this site. Unfortunately PC upgrades are slowing down, and my builds are getting further and further apart. I just don't need to visit sites like anandtech as often as I did. It's sad though. Next time I need to build a PC I don't know where I'm going to go for my deep dive CPU analysis, or Power Supply recommendations. Good luck to all the writers. I hope you find a great place to continue doing the hard work of finding the best hardware for the $$$.
TYVM all for the years of education, fun, excitement (at times), and being a place that one could almost always go to for good reviews of gear, analysis of technology etc. I have to quibble with one observation "for better or worse"...I cannot think of anything that makes the tech space better with Anandtech's absence from it. Not one. GL all in your endeavors and with this changing of an era - lets hope it doesn't become something matrix-like.
There was some excellent articles and reviews in the past. Truly set a benchmark for the industry. Liked the quality of the graphs and benchmarking done of new products and often would even reference it when talking to folks.
Can't remember if I follow Anandtech since the beginning, but it should be sometime in 199x. And while I seldom post here for many years, I still regularly read the articles (news and reviews) and not using adblockers. So, just signing in to say thank you and best wishes to all staffs.
I've been here since the beginning and learned so much back in the day when computers were new Tech. The place did take a nose dive when Anand left but I still returned for certain things. Good luck to those jumping ship.
Thank you to all who worked on this site over these several decades. I've been a reader since buying my first PC component back in 2007 but beyond the useful benchmarks and thorough product testing, I got sucked in by the depth and quality of articles, the writers diving into technical details with a contagious enthusiasm.
Here I enjoyed reading things I never needed to know about z culling and VLIW; I read things about some particular Opteron's latency issues and Sandforce controller firmware bugs, which against all odds somehow later became relevant in my work, as did the methodologies of investigation I absorbed along the way.
So after 17 years of reading, it comes to a close. It's going to be weird if the site eventually drops off my list of most visited ones, but I'm glad what's here already will remain for reference and nostalgia.
Ive been reading this page since the very beginning. This sucks! I was sad when Dailytech shutdown got bought and turned to rubbish but at least I had anandtech to get my longform news. Yalls site will be missed!
The end of an era. I hadn't been frequenting Anandtech as much recently, partly because of a chance in personal interests, but also was driven away a little bit by some of the imposing advertising and website changes that came after the sites sale all those years ago. Needless to say, AnandTech was unique among it's peers, and it's hard to deny that AnandTech helped shape parts of the industry.
Thanks for being a part of my computer journey since I discovered Anandtech in 1998. Learned a ton of information about what become a hoppy of mine that I recently got back into. Did a lot of hardware selling/buying on the forums in the early 2000s as I stayed close to the cutting edge of new release hardware.
For a couple of decades, whenever I opened up a browser on a new computer or needed to test the Internet connection, I automatically typed "anandtech.com". It was burned into my muscle memory :P thanks for starting me on the path of learning about computer architecture, ultimately leading me to a career in that very same VLSI and silicon industry I read about as a kid.
Despite having the feeling the site was coming to an end, I'm in shock that it's actually happening. My homepage was AT from around 1998 to around 2015, and still today I visit AT first for all new hardware data. I'm still going to check AT first until the day I die, just in case. Even if the site's owner stops paying the bills, I will check.
Going to be hard to find a replacement for high-quality, no-nonsense tech journalism and particularly hardware reviews. Discovered this site over a decade ago and never looked back. Thank you for all of your work over the years.
Well, that's an unexpected and not pleasant surprise. Thank you so much Ryan - and everyone - for the great content created during the years. I've been a long term fan and I have no trouble considering AnandTech the best tech site around. You will be missed.
What a shock news. Thank you Anandtech! A 20+ year reader here. Your technical content and quality of reviews was second to none. Will be sorely missed.
This is so sad to me. I check Anandtech every day for something new and I started reading it 20 years ago in the 6th grade. Thanks for doing what you could to keep it going. It’s a sad day for the tech journalism media. I’m glad they’ll keep the site up.
Anandtech was always a great distraction when something life had me stressed out, anxious, or depressed. I never realized until my 20’s that it really helped take a lot off my mind and the deep dives and chip analysis was basically therapeutic.
Damn. I will miss the well researched and written articles. It was a good run.
Seems like click baits and sensationalism is winning, a fact that is made clear by the suggestion to read Toms Hardware as that place is far from being of Anandtech quality. Once it was, but over the last decade or so more and more it is not.
Farewell AnandTech, it has been an incredible almost 26 years (I think it was 1998 when I was looking into building a dual processor system that I came across AnandTech)!
End of an era... This website was *the* reference for the longest of times. It's crazy to me that you guys could no longer make ends meet considering the established reputation of AT. It's a cutthroat business out there....!
Everyone at Anandtech, past and present, thank you! You have been a great source of information and will always rate at the top of my list of tech sites. Your site has always been the first point of call for me when I want to know about any technology. You have been a constant presence in my browser window over the last 12 years.
End of an era. I briefly met Anand after starting college via a mutual acquaintance from Enloe High. Before then, I thought of "tech journalism" as exclusively the domain of PC Magazine/Ziff Davis for some reason. His approachable take on maximizing performance per dollar and overclocking had a profound influence on my passion for computing and the neverending march of Moore's Law. After I became an Anandtech (and ATOT) regular, I started building my own computers, got a gig at my university's computer store to help pay my living expenses, and even worked for a local computer shop over my summers.
I'd have to say the biggest influence this site had on me was helping me find my career. I quickly realized computer science wasn't the path for me while in college--I just didn't have the brain for complex matrix theory or the coding discipline. But through this site I was introduced to the ins and outs of tech marketing, and the importance of knowing your customer (i.e. tech enthusiast vs. business user vs. average consumer) and messaging appropriately.
The tech journalism landscape has definitely shifted over the past 20+ years, and while we're much better off than we were during Ziff Davis' heyday, I can't say everything is necessarily for the better. While I can appreciate some of the YouTube and TikTok content creators out there, I will miss the in-depth reporting and balanced approach that made this site so special.
Memories... I remember reading you since I was a poor middle schooler in Eastern Europe dreaming of the day I will afford that coveted Duron build. Eventually I saved enough to buy a Duron 750, and the hardware choice was driven entirely by Anandtech. Every single hardware decision since then has been driven by you guys.
You guys defined an epoch for many of my peers and you will be sorely missed. Thank you for the memories, thank you for the fish, thank you for making a nerd's childhood a delight
Wow, what a blow. Since first learning here about overclocking and speeding up a Celeron I have read so many reviews, guides, comments, recommendations and builds here I can't imagine replacing all the expertise with another source. Anandtech has remained at the top of my bookmarks for at least 20 of the 27 years. Thanks for the whole experience. We are all much better off that Anandtech persisted for so many years.
AnandTech used to be my online home, so I will be a little sad to see it go even though I haven't been active here or on the forums in a few years. But it's really not a surprise to read this article as the writing has been on the wall for quite some time now given the gradual, steady decline in AnandTech's prominence in the tech enthusiast community and loss of active readership.
It's unfortunate that successive ownership hasn't really had anyone at the helm that had vision and passion to invest time/resources to keep AT relevant - *without* compromising by giving in to sensationalist trends or sacrificing journalistic integrity. It may have been a difficult proposition, of course, but AnandTech could have been turned around at various points in its history, especially with the rise of new platforms (podcasts, youtube, etc).
Media outlets like Gamers Nexus and Linus Tech Tips have actually come back to give written form some attention, even while expanding their own testing capabilities. Are they at AnandTech levels of journalistic purity and technical analysis? Possibly not, but they at least have a shot of getting offering some semblance of that, and may stick around a while and evolve to that point. Monetization diversification and retaining ownership certainly helps with their survival chances.
Regardless, the AnandTech website and forums were a fantastic resource for many years, and I learned a lot about computers from the writers and fellow enthusiasts here. You will be missed.
Thanks for all the good reads and recommendations. I remember finding this site in the late 90s when I was in the middle of high school becoming a tech nerd. And I found Anand's site far better than the Tom's Hardware opposition and declared my camp. Many a purchase decision was influenced by these very reviews, forums, comments.
Been visiting nearly daily since then and definitely more lurking than posting. I enjoyed the simplicity of the site and the clarity of the writing and charts and tables. Read an article or bookmark it to read later. No unwanted auto loading videos. Sad to hear there will no longer be any new reviews. But great news that the site will keep the archive and the forums! Thanks for all the hard work! Good luck in your next endeavor!
I did not post much, but read a lot. I truly appreciated the writing from this site and the commitment to impartial reviews of computer hardware. Thanks for all the editors, recent and past, for the help that you have given to many of us.
In the midst of all the sensationalism and personality-based tech journalism nowadays, being a little boring is almost ironically like a breath of fresh air. I echo your hope, that the inspiration you provided will manifest itself as serious tech journalism in the future.
Goodbye Ryan and AnandTech - You have been a constant trusted voice for me, and I thank you and wish you the best of luck.
> there’s (almost) no such thing as bad products, just bad pricing.
Thanks for the "almost" qualifier, because there absolutely *are* such things as bad products. For instance, something that wastes lots of your time or corrupts your data could easily be worth *less* than $0.
For a product merely to be mis-priced, the bare minimum standard is that it must basically function as promised, if not terribly well or competitively.
> Continuing the Fight Against the Cable TV-ification of the Web > > ... the need for quality, in-depth reporting has not changed. If anything, > the need has increased as social media and changing advertising landscapes > have made shallow, sensationalistic reporting all the more lucrative.
Just want to echo this. I hope we can all try to find and support authors who are open-minded, don't pander or resort to hyperbole, and are highly transparent about their test methodology. Beware of anyone given to reaching overconfident and simplistic conclusions.
> I am happy to report that the site itself won’t be going anywhere for a while. > Our publisher, Future PLC, will be keeping the AnandTech website and its > many articles live indefinitely. So that all of the content we’ve created over > the years remains accessible and citable.
Thank you so much, for this! I've cited your articles numerous times and seen others do the same. They're also cited quite heavily by Wikipedia, underscoring both the importance of keeping this content live and showing just how much poorer the tech world will be, without new reviews and in-depth coverage that made the site what it was.
I never really commented, but this has been one of my favorite sites to visit over the past 2 decades I've been interested in tech. I will greatly miss the publications and I wish the entire staff the best and look forward to where you all will go next
Farewell Ryan et al, and thank you for all the great work you all have done over the years. The CPU and GPU architecture deep dives on Anandtech remain unparalleled in terms of details and the sheer amount of effort put in to go beyond manufacturer press release data.
I think i´ve been checking this site since the beggining... the first memory that i hav is looking for articles about the nvidia riva tnt or tnt2... of course i´ve noticed the decline in the number of articles, but i´ve remain loyal to the end... checking updates every couple of days or so... well, its been part of my life for longer than i would like to admit (yes, i´m old)...hope you guys have all the luck in world and my best regards... cheers from brazil!
I haven't used this account for years now but I'm posting this comment as a farewell to the site I visited everyday during my high school years in the 90s. I'm glad the site and contents will still be online even after sunsetting - It's been a great ride!
Farewell , when ever there was new thing (and wanted a deep tech dive) . the first site to check it out was Anandtech . together with voodooextreme (rip), , tomshardware :) and rip hardocp Last few years, mostly Anandtech. Part of the routine I guess.
Good luck everyone. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insight through these articles. Wish you guys the best for the future and hope to read more of your work in other sites.
End of an era. Sorry to see you go, but also look forward to whatever you guys do next. I'm sure, even distributed over a number of different gigs, you'll have an impact!
I don't know why so many are thanking Ryan. He is a fat faced idiot who had no business being in charge of the site. I'll quote someone from the Dr. Cutress video, "Not all editors are created equal".
That guy claimed for a long time wildfires were the reason this site couldn't do GPU reviews anymore. Idiot. Watch the video by Ian, he lays it out.
Thanks for all the hard work over the years. I grew up reading legitimate reviews of the latest hardware on AT and got into a lot of the same tech for my own job thanks to your dedication to the technology.
Like many others here, I first discovered AT in the late 1990s when researching for component info for my first PC build. Since then I have built 8 dedicated gaming-only PCs from the case up and maybe half as much in core core component upgrades in the same case the build was in.
AnandTech's review layouts and charts I much preferred over other well-known tech review sites. In fact when researching old GPU performance comparisons from the late 1990s into the 2010s, AT is still my go-to for archived reviews.
So long AnandTech. The train has reached its final destination.
I've been reading AnandTech since maybe a year after it launched, and in the last 25 years I probably haven't gone a month without visiting the site and reading a couple articles. Thank you for all the quality content over the years! Ryan - you've done a great job carrying the torch all these years, and I appreciate all you did to keep the site running. Best of luck!
All good things come to an end eventually - Anandtech in it's prime reporting on the PC hardware boom was a lively place, and I used to enjoy coming and checking out the latest news and reviews. However all good things come to an end eventually, the world has moved on and I guess you need too as well.
Thanks for all the memories, and thanks to Anand for it's creation.
Thanks for keeping the torch lit for a little while longer, Ryan. Anandtech has been an important touchstone for me in the world, and it was great to have it live on after Anand left. Best wishes to you for the next step in your life. Hope to see your name out there in the future.
Well, there was allways a bit o problem to make simply summary at the end of reviews or.. Einstein told, if can explain something simply you dont understand it. Lots of review where hard to read and i other hard what is new in Apple conference could cover anybody with a bit o HW knowledge. I looked for Apple Mx vs intel analysis a got some Apple conference news.. You menu and searching in articles was not good..
I also never liked impossibility to edit comments, podcast where also often too technical for me, i stopped to listen them 10 years ago.. Regardless thanks for trying.
I have enjoyed AnandTech since 1997 when i first heard about the new website from a fellow hardware geek while shopping at CompUSA, lol. Thank you all for everything you have done and written. It has been an awesome educational and entertaining experience nerd raging over the development of the over the years.
Thank you much for everything. Anandtech was my first site that got me into PC hardware many years ago. It has been on the top of my Computer bookmark list for over 20 years.
Can't that everyone enough for helping me become the person I am today and in the career I'm in now.
I started following tech-sites in the mid 90s and since the start Anandtech was always part of my daily check, in the beginning because it was always quick with the latest news and with well written articles with little bias and deep architecture analysis. Altough lately its been farther betweem the articles it has stilll been a favourite and I'm sad to see it goo away. Thanks for all the hard work through the years!
You should absolutely have Brian Klug in these staff photos, he was one of the very finest writers here, I don't know why you excluded him. Also, Jared Walton should be here, too.
I owe a lot of my early passion in technology to Anand and the website. Sad to see it go since I haven’t found another site with the depth of information. All things come to a close eventually and wish all the current writers well in their future endeavors.
Well all good things and so on, Anandtech was my go to when I first got into Computers years ago and I would read every article Daily, however I have to say after Anand himself left it just never seemed the same, I particularly disliked Ian Cutress as I found/find him self promotional and very heavily biased towards Intel indeed I stopped visiting when he was here as the front page was basically an Intel marketing board! Hopefully folks will find other things to get on with and put food on the table farewell.
Dammit! Thanks for all the hard work over the years. AnandTech and HardOCP were my two favorite places on the internet in the early 2000's. Where do you go now to look for quality tech journalism?
When HardOCP died this was the last site I used for hardware reviews. Thanks for all of the amazing content, now I have no idea where to go in order to get informed on hard drive benchmarks!
I am going to miss this site. Great content and reviews that you can sink your teeth into. while this login is less than a decade old I have been following anandtech since 2000
I am heartbroken as well. I have used articles from AnandTech to decide on my next pc build that's within my budget and it helped me a lot. I will definitely miss reading articles from AnandTech. And thank you all at AnandTech for all your hard work. God bless you all in your future endeavors. Thank you.
Wow. I am very touched. When I built my first pc I came to the forums for advice, I came to the site to learn about new tech. Glad to see the forums will still function though.
Of course, anandtech had massive amounts of data on their motherboard lineup lists. In addition to the obvious USB and other port counts they wrote them complete with power phase counts. These will sadly just go out of date, so no real need to link them herein.
Granted, you'll get better performance a lot of the time, but the lag spikes you'll encounter are quite something.
Here's an example of one of the fastest SSDs at the time. Notice the amazing endurance (TBW) of this TLC drive. Sadly, you don't see that kind of endurance on TLC drives nowadays. https://www.anandtech.com/print/13512/the-crucial-...
In a similar vein, here's an article on SSD data retention. It's a bit dated. But there's literally nothing else I've ever found on the topic -- even in datasheets. https://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-abou...
If I may add to this excellent index, gentle reader, here are writings on celebrated CPUs and their architectures. While they may seem primitive, and would doubtless collapse, if not burn up, when decoding H.269 32K video, they led to the CPUs you use today, teaching the companies many lessons along the way.
Athlon 64. AMD's titanic, but not infallible, successor to the K7. Brought the x64 extension to x86 and an integrated memory controller. Struck fear into Intel fans. https://www.anandtech.com/show/1164
Core 2 Duo. Emerging from the failure of the Pentium 4 and D, Intel struck back with a descendant of the Pentium III. AMD would not fully recover till Ryzen, over a decade later. https://www.anandtech.com/show/2045
Bulldozer. Supposed to take AMD back to the front but sank them into the ditch, bringing AMD close to bankruptcy. Original, Bulldozer shared computation units among cores but had low IPC and used a lot of power. Went through four iterations. https://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/the-bulldozer-...
Ryzen. Thanks to excellent engineering, pouring in all they had learnt from Bulldozer and the competition, a sombre but hopeful AMD was finally "back" and would later take the lead. Ryzen brought high core counts, high performance, low power, and value. So disruptive that it sent a complacent Intel into a spiral of ill-thought-out decisions they have not fully recovered from. https://www.anandtech.com/show/11170/the-amd-zen-a...
EDIT: Geoffrey A, above, didn't mean H.269. That doesn't exist yet. (And when it does his post would look like something a time traveler would write.) What he doubtless meant to write was one of H.265, H.264, or H.263, with the first option being the most likely.
It was intended, addressing the reader of the future, perhaps the 2050s, when 32K video is being encoded with H.269. For each iteration of the ITU-T compression standards, it takes about a decade. (Whether or not a DeLorean was used in finding this information is undefined.)
Thank you for all the hard work, you've been with me ever since I started building my own computers. You will be missed, but never forgotten (old age aside, which might come sooner than most of feel comfortable admitting ;) ).
I mean, you guys haven't been doing the deep dives I came here for, for a long time now. The AMD Bias in the last Intel CPU release was off the charts, to the point of not even including total power draw, ONLY peak! Unbelievable! WIsh I could be sad to see you guys go, but it was going downhill even before Anand left, since then the pace accelerated rapidly.
I guess Tom's Hardware is all we really have left at this point, TechPowerUp for databases. Sad to see, but then again with Moore's Law being dead for a decade now, it was inevitable.
Thank you for all the insighful and informative articles over the past 27 years. I've loved reading them since I was a teenager and you guys were always my go to site for serious and in-depth reviews. All things come to an end, onwards and forwards.
Ryan, Ian, and all of the great writers here - I've learned a lot from your website over the last 25 years. Thanks for such in depth articles on processors, hard drives, and motherboards...
Thanks for all the years of amazing technical deep dives this was one of the best tech websites to ever exist and everyone involved should be proud of their work.
Oh wow! I’ve been following diligently since I was in middle school or high school. For many years it was my browser’s home page. I’ve been wondering some things as of late, but thank you for one last publication airing everything out, and good luck in all future endeavors. Here I am an IT professional with more than 10 years of experience, who’s career definitely has been influenced by this site 🥲
Ack! I abandoned TH because they weren't as neutral as AT, especially the news side. I'm not sure I want to go back... but at the same time, tech journalism in general is not in a great spot. It's hard to find sites that are accurate, thorough, unbiased, and aren't sensational. We certainly are seeing the cable TV-ification (well now more like social media-ification and politicization) of tech, in an attempt to stay afloat. I guess I'll go searching once more.
My god I never thought Anandtech would go away. It's always been here even if I didn't visit every day. I would come here for news and stories and test results that didn't have any BS or bias attached to thim. And while yes Tom's Hardware is there, it is NOT the same and never will be.
OMG, I have been reading your articles since the beginning! When I first started out in IT, between Anand and Tom, I learned so much about PC components. Thank you for all those years, I wish you the best.
Thank you for everything, I remember and miss Geocities, I think the internet was so much better back then, computers and new thing were exciting.
This is sad. I wish the best for everyone here, Idk, I don't see tech going away so I never imagined a site like this going away. but I remember when ZDTV went off the air and the screen savers was no more, etc. just another chapter gone.
i think this is my 3rd post in the 2 decades that i had this account and visited this site. i usually just read reviews and articles. this was a great resource for when i needed things specs not clearly mentioned by the manufacturer, contents of the package, dimentions, etc, and not just the performance.
sad to see you guys, DPReview and others go. i prefer writen media over the current trend of youtube and tiktok "reviews" that offer no real substance. i know that things have to change and nothing lasts forever, but it feels like things are chaging for the worse.
In the heydays, I still remember reading articles from Phd Thomas Pabst from Tomshardware and a teen Anand Lal Shimpi. They were the best hardware review sites at the time but over the years it went thru its ebbs and flows and changed alot. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks to you and all the members of Anandtech. I always had this website and Tom's bookmarked on my browser, and I greatly enjoying reading a variety of the articles that were published over the many years that I have been a computer enthusiast. Best of luck with your future plans.
This has been one of my go-to sites for many years. Very informative and excellent reviews which can be relied on for decision making. Thank you and best wishes for the future.
For a quite a long time the fizz seems to have gone out of enthusiast hardware, the golden days are long gone. WD releasing SMR NAS drives, Intel gen 13/14 processors (oh dear) and AMD certainly know how to screw up a launch. Nvidia never ending price gouging, where did it all go wrong?
Perhaps the origin of the problem is the pushing of closed systems. Closed systems are great for corporations because they take away consumer agency. For consumers with money to burn, they're good but the majority of people haven't money to burn.
Need a replacement battery? Sorry... it's soldered. Need more RAM? Sorry... it's soldered, too. Need a new CPU in order to run some super-important whiz-bang instructions so that your machine isn't 'deprecated' and thus can't be used safely on the Internet because corporations have used security updates as leverage? Sorry... no CPU upgrades for you. Instead, we change the socket every round, solder it down, or find some other way of making it impossible.
The first closed system was the VideoBrain, I think. It flopped but others followed. The highlight is still the first Mac, where Jobs fraudulently demoed a unavailable 512K model (in order to Mac it do tricks that the actual Mac couldn't do because it was so incredibly hobbled) when unveiling the 'first Mac' to the tech press. Could one upgrade the awesome new 128K Mac that just went on sale for the very first time? Nope — not without replacing the innards at vastly too-high a cost, considering that the only difference were some RAM slots.
Perhaps if a benevolent global tech dictator had mandated that all consumer computers (except for special form factors like tablets and watches) be open systems things would be a lot more fun these days.
The other big problem is that there is duopoly all over the place. Duopolies are very close to monopolies in how they function most of the time.
Woz took the philosophical stance that open systems are best for consumers. Jobs took the opposite (and the Breakout money).
Finally, companies like Apple have pioneered holding consumers hostage with security updates — plunging highly-capable machines into landfills due to insatiable corporate bloodlust. Microsoft saw how well that game has been working and is following suit. There should be a global treaty that mandates that hardware be fully supported with security patches for no less than 10 years and that includes motherboard BIOS updates.
On second thought, I think 12 years should be the minimum and it should start when the company's last piece has left the assembly line — not when it is first introduced to the market.
It's telling — how long copyright lasts versus software protection for Internet-oriented devices. Do we really need animated mice with nearly infinite lifespans or do we need productivity machines we spent a lot of money on?
I have a 2013 Macbook Pro with a 1 TB SSD and 16 GB of RAM. It has better specs than 'Macbook Pro' machines Apple has been selling recently. There is absolutely no good reason why this machine isn't supported by the latest in Apple security.
On Android, there's a similar problem. Companies don't want to support phones for long, and after a while, OS and security updates stop. My 2019 Samsung phone, a budget one, had two Android upgrades; its last security update was in May 2023. There's also an S9+ lying about: despite being a former flagship and having strong hardware, it is stuck with Android 10 and a locked bootloader that prevents installing LineageOS. Samsung is waking up and supporting their newer phones for longer, but I don't think it's common in the Android world.
As you point out, the computer is becoming increasingly closed. I agree; there should be regulation that hardware is supported for a decade, and now more than ever because of general reliability and speed.
But it is a pattern we see from all sides. Take the excellent JPEG XL format, which should be pushed by all parties, but instead, Google is undermining it, having removed support from Chromium. This is the power these corporations wield.
I'd say that it went wrong with Moore's Law slowing down. We certainly had a lot of terrible launches in the "old days", whether those which didn't really up performance (Pentium 4, Bulldozer) or things like the Pentium floating point bug. Lots of crappy GPUs.
The reason early days were excited were because we could count on performance going up thanks for process advancement. This is no longer true. It takes longer for new processes to arrive, and it costs more to design for them and to manufacture on them, so we can no longer count on getting more performance for the same price.
The other reason is that PCs are no longer mainly an enthusiast market. In "the old days" PCs you have to have someone technical build your PC. Now the majority of users use laptops, some even used only phones. PC users don't really need the most powerful hardware for most tasks. PCs are just good enough.
Thank you for all the wonderful articles and analyses. I know you worked hard on them. Unfortunately, I don't see that there is anything out there that will replace the great work you were doing.
Farewell and thank you for the work and articles! I really appreciated the detailed tables of specifications for CPUs and other products, and the in depth text explaining new technologies/features. Sometimes I also found reviews of products not covered anywhere else and high definition photos of products from angles that no one else was doing here, really spread light on missing features, answered questions on compatibility, or the actual look of products and their quality.
When I made some comment that got me banned (for some reason), I knew that people were in control of this website that didn't have its best interests at heart. Sad to see it go, but it was predictable and intentional.
Well... I used to visit Anandtech and MSN multiple times a day. MSN is garbage now. Then it was Anandtech, notebookcheck, Tomshardware and MMORPG.com but MMOs are dead so that left me with Anandtech, Tomshardware and notebookcheck. Now Anandtech is shutting down so im down to Tomshardware and notebookcheck. Times are tough.
I remember when AnandTech was the first site I'd visit as soon as I got online, back when the internet was still a luxury in my part of the world. I loved their in-depth reviews of microprocessor and GPU architecture. AnandTech was truly ahead of its time.
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As a technical aside, my humble apologies to anyone who wanted to register an account here to post a comment but cannot. Due to a major bot issue this summer, user registrations were disabled. And as we're now winding down operations, we're not in a position to re-enable them.Otherwise, already existing accounts are still free to post.
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Sahrin - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Silent +1 for my lurker homies who are silenced by circumstance.erinadreno - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Farewell my man. Wish you the best luck in whatever you pursue next.BedfordTim - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for years of great content.MooseMuffin - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Good luck Ryan, thanks for everything.GeoffreyA - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for everything, Ryan, and all the best in your future endeavours. I'm at a loss for words. So sad.thecoolnessrune - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I have enjoyed so much of this site, and it was a major part of my development into the person I am today, from an early teenager just getting into Tech to becoming a practice leader. Thank you for everything Ryan, and thank you to all the AT Staff. As Sahrin said, +1 for all those who wanted to make a comment but couldn't.Terry_Craig - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I feel like I'm mourning someone's death... I don't understand how so many useless websites make tons of money, and a website with so much technical baggage has to close its doors. Either way, Anandtech will go down as one of the best technology sites in history.Thank you for the good work over the years.
haakon_k - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Dammit, this can't be true. Anandtech is the only reason I acquired, and kept, an internet connection.Shaunathan - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for everything and farewell my friendwingless - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I haven't logged into this account for years, but I'm really glad to have it right now. Thank you for all of your hard work over the years. Is there a way to archive the site so that all of your work won't be lost? There's value in referring to old articles and benchmarks as time goes on.Trackster - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for the years, Ryan. You and the Anandtech team are truly second to none. I hope you all have the greatest of successes in the future.Cellar Door - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks Ryan et al!JyveAFK - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
So sorry to hear. Hope everyone ends up in great places.robbro9 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Man, JC's News, then Aces Hardware, now this... Been a rough couple millenia...jgarcows - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I've been reading anandtech since early Athlon days, so I'm sorry to see it go. I absolutely hate how everything is a video review now, instead of an article I can read.Oxford Guy - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Video wouldn't be as terrible if they would get to the point. Instead, the trend is to pad a 5-minute piece of content into a 45-minute video, complete with superfluous intros.GeoffreyA - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Well, many haven't mastered the central art of filmmaking, which is editing, cutting down a story to its essentials, no matter how beautiful one's footage is or otherwise.nytol - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for all the great articles over the years. Excited to see what's next for you and the Anandtech team.SiliconJock - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Oh, AnandTech, what a saga it's been! For 27 years, you were the absolute total red roosters central, a veritable shrine to the art of uncritical praise. Even as the red team was losing billions upon billions of dollars, you stayed true to form, crooning the ballad of their "always mediocre devices" with an enthusiasm that could only be described as stubbornly delusional.It’s almost poetic how you've managed to drag your feet through two and a half decades without so much as a whisper of innovation. Who needs cutting-edge technology when you’ve had your head firmly lodged in the sands of Always Mediocre Devices? I’m sure your servers were like vintage wine—getting better with age, right? Or maybe they were just like that dusty old tech magazine that no one ever bothered to read because, well, it was outdated the moment it hit the stands.
So, here’s to you, AnandTech—may your departure be as uneventful as your tenure. You’ve truly set a new standard for how low a tech site can go and still somehow keep its lights on. Farewell, and thanks for proving that sometimes, the best way to make an impact is to not make one at all.
Regards,
SiliconDoc a.k.a CeriseCogburn a.k.a SiliconJock.
Oxford Guy - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Yeah right.magreen - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
What a horrible comment. It doesn’t reflect on the good work that AnandTech did. It reflects on you, very poorly.To all the staff at AnandTech—I’ve been reading your work regularly for 20 years. It’s consistently been the best and most educational, as reflected by the very well informed readership and commentariat. There’s a reason people who are industry professionals come here to read and comment. Most everything I’ve learned about hardware came from you guys. Thanks for everything.
Showtime - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you Ryan, Anand, all the writers, editors, and members that contributed to Anandtech over the years. This was the 2nd site I frequented after learning to install windows 20 odd years ago. As everyone knew, reinstalling windows was the only real way to fix your pc back then lol. Anandtech immediately became my goto for pc info, and greatly helped me with my new hobby. Took me from a noob learning to build, and upgrade his pc for gaming (D2, CS, etc), through troubleshooting various issues, to fully understanding the in's and outs of pc's. Friends, and family still approach me for information that I mostly learned here. The tech may have advanced, but building, and troubleshooting pc's hasn't changed much. My builds have shrunk, somehow gotten quieter, and I can totally run Crysis thanks to Anandtech!eastcoast_pete - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for all your work and trying to keep this site going (against the odds)! Indeed the end of an era.Hope you are moving on to better and greater things!
This question feels almost inappropriate: will the tests and, especially, the deep dives, be archived and remain accessible? Those were and are almost unique, and irreplaceable!
eastcoast_pete - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I just re-read your article, and saw this "Our publisher, Future PLC, will be keeping the AnandTech website and its many articles live indefinitely. So that all of the content we’ve created over the years remains accessible and citable. "
So hopefully my question was unnecessary. You guys literally wrote part of modern computing hardware history, and those reviews and tests and backgrounders should be archived, and not just by Future PLC.
And, again, thanks Ryan, and best wishes and good luck for your next move!
BaronMatrix - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Wow, this site is as old as my username. I've been here through the original Athlon500, the start of Nvidia, the end of 3DFX and too much more... I think of this as a staple for tech advancements... And announcements...I had been away from comments and forums for years as my work changed but it's been an exciting journey... Right now I have a Minisforum PC with 3 outputs and 720p gaming and it's smaller than my 5.1 center...
Watching big cases become nearly irrelevant with SSDs has been another huge change... I have 8TB now...
Maybe I'll visit the forums more...
Drumsticks - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Farewell Anandtech. Regardless of anything that's led to today over the last few years, I want to express, like so many others, my gratitude in finding Anandtech and making it such a core part of my weekly news cycle over so many years.Anandtech's articles on Nehalem, Phenom, and later Sandy bridge were almost single-handedly responsible for sending me into computer engineering in High School. Thank you all for every word that's gone to e-print, and I hope everybody finds a good role somewhere else ASAP.
RMSe17 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Wow, this is sad, been following Anandtech since like 2002!jlp2097 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I've been reading anandtech since at least 2001. While it is not exactly a surprise, I am still really sad to see it go :-(Thanks for everything and wishing everybody the best for the future.
erotomania - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Started reading in 1998. Still hanging around til this day. Started to worry a little about tech hardware a few years before Anand left when so many cell phones were being reviewed - turns out I was worried about the wrong thing. Thanks for all the great explanations by many great writers, for many years.zanon - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Chipping in as well. What a journey! As sad as I am to see the end, you've changed a lot of our lives for the better. I hope you all feel a sense of accomplishment in having contributed to the world and us. Thank you.ICBM - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Been with you guys from the beginning. A daily checkin here for 26 years will be tough to change. Thank you all very much for the must trusted reviews all this time.J3S73R - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I guess this is the huhJ3S73R - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
this is it*Stuka87 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
As an avid reader since '99, this really hurts to read. AnandTech has always gone above and beyond to provide detailed reviews that few others matched. Thank you to all of the editors that put in decades of work for us readers. And I hope everybody is able to quickly find a new employer in these days where written media is slowly going away.Cyberstorm - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
A large thank you for all the competent writers of Anandtech.I especially remember you reviewing the ASUS K7M motherboard which wasn’t really labelled with the ASUS label, and writers Anand and Ian comes to mind especially in the early years.
All the best of luck to all of you. In your coming endeavours.
I am sorry that you have to close, but I hope that one day you can rise like the bird Phoenix from the Ashes.
MeJ - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
It's funny. I just checked Anand's first article, and had forgotten it was this very article (and other reviews following) that led me to adopt K6 processors in our production line instead of Pentium IIs. We could offer faster cheaper Windows workstations to our clients, it got us ahead, and I continued running that business until we sold it in '22 on our retirement. Thank you AT.Bad Bimr - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Been here since day one. Thank you for everything. Farewell and well wishes for everyone's future.etamin - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Been lurking since 2010. This site guided me from a PC know-nothing to a confident hobbyist. Anandtech will be missed dearly. Best of luck to the crew!seanmac2 - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thank you, Ryan. Best wishes and thank you for your integrity in reporting.colinstu - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
end of an era. RIP! Happy to've been along for the ride. See you all.SiriusScaper - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thank you for the years of articles and invaluable information that took me from building my first Athlon T-bird system to my current 5900x-based setup. I look forward to seeing what you do next Ryan :)themossie - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
As a reader of 22+ years - thank you for everything, Anandtech.I am truly saddened by the slow collapse of quality in-depth written tech news, and Anandtech was the best in the business.
Ryan, thank you for your 10 years as editor-in-chief. (Exactly 10 years, isn't it?) I believe you did everything possible, given the state of the industry and the original sale of the company
I am certain each contributor, past and present, has even greater things ahead!
mode_13h - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
> Exactly 10 years, isn't it?What's the deal with that? Just seemed a good time to throw in the hat, or is there more to it?
SirDragonClaw - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thank you for years of great content!I wish you the best luck in whatever you pursue next!
war59312 - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thank you for everything!filmgirl - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Amazed I still had my login info for this site. Thank you for keeping the site running and congrats on a 19 year run. Viva Anandtech.C1aymore - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Thank you for the all professional work! You guys have left the world better than it was foundPaulMack - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
+1.Just 2 weeks ago I was explaining SSE/SIMD to colleagues, in relation to AVX-512, and it's all thanks to AnandTech articles about the former some 25 years ago. I learned so much from you, and just wish this wasn't true. One more top resource falling to the clickbait/AI-generated/YouTube-revenue competition. I would subscribe now if I could, so my best response is to subscribe to Ars instead.
I'll simply wish you, Ryan, the other authors, and those behind the scenes my best, and hope that everyone finds themselves in as good a place as AnandTech was for me over the years.
virvan - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Memories... I remember reading you since I was a poor middle schooler in Eastern Europe dreaming of the day I will afford that coveted Duron build. Eventually I saved enough to buy a Duron 750, and the hardware choice was driven entirely by Anandtech. Every single hardware decision since then has been driven by you guys.You guys defined an epoch for many of my peers and you will be sorely missed. Thank you for the memories, thank you for the fish, thank you for making a nerd's childhood a delight
plewis00 - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Thanks for everything over the years, this was my first port of call for almost everything IT related. I thought the writing was on the wall as the number of articles slowed down after Anand left but the quality always made it worth it. Tomshardware is where I typically go now but it does have really aggressive ads (especially on mobile) and more news-type posts. Anyway, thank you for your time and dedication, people are really going to miss this site, but at least previous articles are still kept relevant and available. Good luck with your future endeavoursdada_dave - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
I'm sorry to say goodbye after all these years. Best of luck to you and your staff.hansmuff - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Ryan et al,Thanks for your hard work. Thanks for the excellent content over the years. You were a real enrichment for the tech community. May you all land on your feet and be successful!
Maxed Out - Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - link
Sorry to see you guys go the way of the Dodo.nyoungman - Thursday, September 5, 2024 - link
Thanks for all the in-depth articles over the years. You will be missed. All the best on your journey.fuicharles - Saturday, September 7, 2024 - link
Thank you, from Malaysia, had heen following you since year 2000 when I had my uni life in UK.Aspernari - Saturday, September 7, 2024 - link
Registrations, password resets, and a bunch of other basic functions.Oh well. The barely functioning website with poor data and worse policies will continue to rot. This whole thing should have been taken out behind the wood shed years ago.
Bobsy - Monday, September 9, 2024 - link
Thank you to the whole group at AnandTech. A special thank you to E. Fylladitakis, whose articles I always read thoroughly and really enjoyed. AnandTech was the place from where I watched several Apple presentations; I will miss that very much. Farewell.Oberoth - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Oh no, this is awful news. So sorry to hear you go.wsjudd - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Wow, the end of an era! I'm extremely sorry to see the site wind down, but the influence Anandtech has had on a generation of tech journalists and tech readers will endure. Thanks for all that you've done!porina - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Wasn't expecting to see this, although signs have been in the background for a while. Hope all affected find a new path quickly.I remember the site when Anand was still here, and things have changed over the years. I prefer written format over the trend for videos, where it is much more difficult to find specific information and reference it.
BedfordTim - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I'm not surprised. As tech has matured it has become less interesting and the details too complex to really understand as a casual reader. It isn't just Anandtech I have found myself visiting less frequently,Oxford Guy - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Tech is still interesting. However, most of the interesting things are happening in the research arena not in consumer tech.shabby - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Anand leaving was the first sign, but the lack of gpu reviews was the other nail in the coffin.Anyway, good times, site will be missed 😢
Sahrin - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Genuinely sad news to start my Friday.Thank you Ryan, Anand, and everyone who has contributed to making Anandtech what it is. You guys are legends, and while the void left by your absence can't be filled, I will always remember rushing to AT on launch days, and consulting it for hardware performance data, news, and tweaks (when I couldn't figure how I'd messed up a build, lol).
Thank you so much for the memories, and may your future successes be commensurately large with the service you've done for the community.
pepone1234 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for everything I learned with your articles. I will miss you a lot.praeses - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you all for your contributions and dedication. I have been a regular visitor since I think 1999 and despite the changes faces, I have always regarded the work as reputable. Good luck in your future ventures.Eliadbu - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This is sad, years I've been reading here. So much effort and quality has been put to the reviews analyze as well as deep level dive into the details. This place will be missed.ToTTenTranz - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you so much for your work, and I hope to see all of you again in greener pastures.del42sa - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
it´s so sad news... Anandtech was one of the best websites about graphics and PC and also great deep-dive articles about hardware. Thank you for everything. Wish the best !CrystalCowboy - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for all the content, and happy trails!Kougar - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
It is sad to see the end of the site. Anandtech got me hooked on computer technology, and it was an amazing ride during those decades that saw a one-of-a-kind rapid progression in computer technology. 2D graphics to 3D graphics, small gaming cards that turned into powerful compute devices. A computer morphing from a single core single-thread processor to an entire supercomputing cluster on a chip. Slow, unreliable, and noisy hard drives eventually superseded by solid state drives. Basic analog motherboards that would blow out if overtaxed, to digital VRM motherboards that can self-throttle and even self-regulate power distribution on the fly. Even the dawn of the smartphone age.It was a privilege to follow along during those 27 years. The names and authors may of changed along the way, but Anandtech was there for all of it.
Bronek - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I will miss you. Thank you for all the fish.opinali - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Sad news, but thanks for all the fish!sutamatamasu - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thx for your time to write a great article, from K10 era until now i always read Anandtech article as first reference.. thx again.powerarmour - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Farewell and bon voyage, not unexpected but hopefully you'll find what you need elsewhere.rocky12345 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
It is sad to see the site go it has been a wild ride for sure. I have been coming here since the site opened 27 years ago. This site will be missed by myself and many others.StormyParis - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Dang. Thanks. You'll be missed. Best of luck moving forward.blackmagnum - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for the good articles and the memories. Farewell and have a good journey.mwdmeyer - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Just posting here to say thank you and will miss this website a lot. Many of Anand's reviews were fantastic and helped me a-lot to decide on the hardware I purchased, my first brand new machine being a Duron 800 (now running a 7800x3d!).Thanks guys, glad the content is staying online (at least for now). Will probably try and setup a mirror on vogonswiki.
ballsystemlord - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I actually preferred AT over tom's because all the pages on AT could be loaded with all the graphs, normally with print view. On tom's I have to click for more pages and for more graphs.Sad to see that the rumors were true about AT being usurped by toms.
ZoZo - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I blame you for jinxing it with your "keep up the amazing work" comment on the Corsair AIO review! :Pballsystemlord - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I also was the arsonist in the GPU testing lab! :PGeoffreyA - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Everybody, it was ballsystemlord! ;)Slogby - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I don't know exactly when I started reading Anandtech, the earliest evidence I found is a note in my diary from 2003. Which I'm afraid was a whinge about Mozilla CPU usage rendering large Flash animated adverts, so advertisers have always been a pain for readers and I imagine authors, but later I mentioned things I learned from articles.$ grep -i anandtech diary |wc -l
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So I guess you've been a part of my life. Thanks for everything.
foldor - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I was never much of a commenter, but I was definitely an avid reader. So sad to see this place go down. It was always my most trusted source, when others always seemed mired in controversy, this one always stood all for for me.allenb - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
After all these years, I’m sad to see you go. No idea when I first started reading but it’s been a long, long time. Best of luck in all of your future endeavors!dotjaz - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Sad sad day indeed.Colin1497 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
The world keeps changing, but for a big chunk this place and the people here did great work. Enjoy what's next.Kurosaki - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
FSo sad this day has come, I'll miss these glory years! ;(
kristoferen - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for the nearly 3 decades of quality(!) content. You will be missed.faizoff - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Incredibly sad to see this post, been a lurker since around 2003-4 and been using this site religiously for everything. This is tough on many levels and while it seemed inevitable it's still very difficult to accept. All the best to everyone and a big personal thank you for being the one tech constant in my life.antifocus - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Very sad to see but not unexpected, Anandtech has been my go-to source for tech related news and reviews probably since 2010 until few years ago. Good luck to all the staff and hope we'll meet again somewhere else.JlHADJOE - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
So long, and thanks for all the fishoccidental - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
You were bereft of talent anyway. Not missed!cashnmillions - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This is sad to hear. I've been coming to this site since I can remember getting into tech. Best of luck to everyone involved with the website. Thank you for everything you did.Jeff H - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
A sad, but inevitable day. I read Anand's first review article, the AMD K6, and was hooked. Anandtech has been my home page ever since. I've not visited a website where its readers were more engaged (I'm sure to the chagrin of the staff, at times).A 27 year legacy will stand out for years to come. My hope is the writers and staff at Anandtech find their way to meaningful positions.
MadAd - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Same, 23 years a Homepage for me, I have no idea what I am going to set it to now. Toms doesnt have the same feel at all.jebo - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Wow. This is a sad day. I was here during college and the early days of my career, supporting my gaming hobby by researching benchmarks between AMD Athlon Thunderbird and Intel Pentium 4. To think about some of the releases since then, when I checked AT first thing in the morning to see those early reviews....Geforce4, ATi Radeon, Athlon 64, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Geforce 6800 Ultra, all the way to today's Nvidia RTX and AMD Ryzen....The Anandtech team helped me make better buying decisions again and again.And then the forums....the virtual water cooler where like-minded people could ask questions, share information, and just generally chat about random topics. The community kept us coming back.
I haven't been around here much lately. Most of my tech news these days is consumed while listening to youtube while multitasking. A sign of the times I suppose.
Thank you for being here all these years. The community owes you all a debt of gratitude.
(P.S. I remembered my login info!)
Mugur - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
So long everybody. Been here since 1999. All (good) things must pass.wavetrex - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for the great content all these years and good luck in all future endeavours !Twister292 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
As someone who's been reading your website ever since I got my first computer in 2000, I wish you and the team all the very best for your future endeavours.This is the end of an era for a lot of us.
boozed - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for everything and all the best to you all.Xaph0d - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
To add to the applause - thanks for everything, and best of luck!Eletriarnation - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I first started reading AnandTech around 20 years ago, as a high school student who was just getting into learning how my computer worked and how to tinker with it. It was one of my favorite sources in general, but specifically I loved the deep dives into new CPU architecture with plenty of discussion of functional block and transistor-level changes.I'm a senior networking engineer now, still tinkering in between my work, and it's been my habit to visit every couple days or so to see what's going on. It's been clear for a while that video is becoming the dominant medium in this segment, so while I had no idea of the financials it felt like the writing might be on the wall. I'll even admit that I first heard about this from Ian's YouTube video. Still, it is a shame to lose this - the main virtue of videos are how easy they are to passively consume, not their depth of content or analysis. I appreciate the creators like ServeTheHome and GamersNexus which make an effort to do written content as well.
I'll miss AnandTech, and having appreciated the team's hard work over many years I hope you all have soft landings into a role doing what you love somewhere new. Like the article says, nothing lasts forever, and you have a legacy here of great work.
Cryio - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Article breaks my heart. Hate to see the website go. I wish you guys the best of luck in future endeavors.Speedfriend - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Very sad to see. For years Aandtech was the first website I visited every day and always looked forward to the in-depth reviews on launch dates of processors or phones!WelshBloke - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Ah, I'll keep it short. I shall miss this site a lot. Thank you for all the content and level headed, clickbait free articles.We need more sites like this not less!
bbertram - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
So many good articles have come from this site, it was one of my cherished websites to visit over the decades. Farewell my friend.kepstin - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
While this might be the end of an era for AnandTech, I'm glad that it's not the end for in depth written tech news and reviews written by people who care. Tom's Hardware continuing on, and the recent revitalization of the Gamers Nexus website have proved that.I'm glad the site is remaining up - AnandTech is a treasure trove of historical context and useful info for what are now retro PC enthusiasts. (Fun fact: as Anand mentioned offhand in the Super Socket 7 motherboard article but was unable to test at the time, the Aladdin V chipset *does* actually work with 1GB of ram)
ak217 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
The end of an era. AnandTech has always been the gold standard and a trusted resource for me. Sad to see it go, but hopeful that another generation of high integrity tech hardware journalism will rise in its place.Thanks for all the hard work and for staying true to the values of the site!
Chuck_NC - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Ryan, I was very sad to see this post this morning. I hope you find happy pastures in the tech world, and be proud of what you have done. You and your previous team have always made great technical articles, even diving into difficult to describe ideas and make them readable and enjoyable. I will miss the new stories here, as this has been a staple of my morning routine for years. - Best regards!psyclist80 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Sorry to hear fellas. Loved all the content over the years been reading since 1999. AnandTech one of the GOAT's. Best of luck in future endeavours Ryan and crew! One door closes, so that another can open! Thanks for all the content over the years, you made me the computer nerd I am today!flgt - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you guys for all you’ve done through the years. AnandTech has always been my go to tech site and I’ll miss the great articles and lively debates. Wish Ryan and the team all the best going forward.Makaveli - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Damn the end of an era!I've been on this site since the year 2000 and have learned so much from the articles and forum members. However I did see the writing on the road youtube and taken over for written article even though they are of worse technical quality.
Thank you to the team for all the work and the journey I started reading the site as someone in my early 20's and now we finish and I'm in my 40's. As as much as I like THG it will never replace Prime Anandtech.
You will be missed but never forgotten.
zcat - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Long time lurker; last time poster: This is almost the saddest news in my RSS feed this morning (after Gaza). I've been reading AnandTech since the 90s, specifically for its in-depth articles, and it will be missed. Thank you! Definitely not looking forward to ever more shallow, AI-kluged-together content as the enshitification of the Internet continues...Falloutboy - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
wow my old login still works. just thought I'd post. when I was in my teens same age as Anand this site and forum was where I learned about PC hardware, bought and sold components on the forum, argued about what GPU was best, Found out about different steppings or special chips that were cheap and overclcoked to the moon. haven't been here as much in years as an adult, but those memories always had me checking in occationally, been sad to see this site kind of drift off into just being another random tech site and not what it used to be. Kinda feels like its time but sad to see go.alloc - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Anandtech is literally the reason why I am in tech today, and why strive to continue to learn and grow. Thanks for everything!TheStork - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for your 27 years of great reporting and reviews. Your contributions will be missed. C U over at Tom's Hardware.tipoo - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Oh, man. I'm really sad about this, but wish you all the best in your future endeavours. I was that weird kid who would run home from middle school and boot up the computer and open up Anandtech to read new articles, practically daily, it was so central to me ending up in a compute field.The only constant is change, but this is a bummer. Best of luck, and thanks for all the fish.
tipoo - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Actually I liked, it was literally more than dailytipoo - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Ahhh your lack of edits have foiled me for the last time, Anandtech!😅😭
AndrewJacksonZA - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
*chuckle * Ah, the missing edit feature. <3 :-)cheinonen - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I was lucky enough to do display reviews here for a few years and work with some absolutely wonderful people (Ryan, Anand, Josh, Brian, Jarred, and more) while I was here. But I also vividly remember my professor in our required PC Hardware class in 1998 telling us that we could find out everything we needed to know to pass the class from reading AnandTech. I was already an avid reader, which made it easy for me to challenge the class the next day and not have to sit through it for an entire quarter having to learn information that was likely already outdated. I hate to see it go, and good luck to everyone going forward.wenart - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for everything I learned with your articles!!Threska - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Wow! Thought this was April Fools at first.Bleeder - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This is sad news.. the end of an era :(Threska - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
"Still, few things last forever, and the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was – nor will it ever be again."Something, something, money, something.
Xedius - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for all the hard work! Godspeed to all of you!gandoron - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Amazing in-depth hardware content. You will be missed.Silver5urfer - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
End of an era.True journalism in Technology industry died today. August 30, 2023.
What a sad fate. AT always had higher standards in testing. Writing and deep dives that one would never find elsewhere. Plus custom tests that AT wrote such ad CPU latency, Cache testing and a lot more, esp Anandtech Benchmark suites and ATs database of Benchmarks to gauge a CPU or GPU. And at a personal level AT influence was key for me to be In a position where I can also see through the lens of enthusiasts POV and gain knowledge and also thinking perspectives. Really grateful to be a part of this.
AT tests not just include dumb youtube like junk which are farmed for clicks and mainstream content (GN, HWU, LTT and son on). Also not just that, the community interaction here and like minded folks arguing or agreeing to a technical discussion is just irreplaceable. YT comments are not useful for posterity and other mainstream sites like TPU, Toms do not cover anything that AT does in their specific way. Toms forums are decent but they are nowhere near AT forum level. There are so many things that AT has a signature to it.
I blame the stupid people. They want everything precooked and ready. AT technical deep dives are lost in the braindead IQ of masses. Now like all we have to consume the padded, sponsored, biased reviews I guess.
The writing was on the wall. GPU reviews stopped flowing in was first red flag. Then Ian involvement dropped and he left entirely. Less finances to make this work over Toms Hw..
Fun fact is I got into fued with Andrei on how his tests on Apple processors do not translate to real world speed tests and how his DAC reviews of LG ESS were not upto mark along with Android OS deteriorating due to Apple influcence (scoped storage first arrived with Android 10) guess what I was blocked lol saying cool it off. IRL he had to cool it off, anyways moving on. Had to make this account, that old one was Quantumz0d. You can go to old LG reviews and Apple reviews and find my takes on Android regression and Apple tests.
Goodbye Anandtech and all the crew who made it this far and everyone in this journey.
We will miss you Anandtech for your invaluable work. And wishing everyone - All the very best from bottom of my heart.
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2024*GeoffreyA - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Thanks for all your knowledgeable reflections, Silver5urfer. I almost always read them and tended to agree.Silver5urfer - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
Greetings GeoffreyA. Good to hear man and yes I do remember we usually had similar train of thoughts. That said, thank you as well. See you on the otherside.GeoffreyA - Thursday, September 5, 2024 - link
Thanks, brother. See you on the other side.Reflex - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
As others have said this is an end of an era. I started a computer shop in my hometown back when I was 19, first Tom's Hardware then Anandtech became my online resources for doing research on hardware for client builds. I lost interest in Tom's in the late 90's but I've consistently read Anandtech as part of my daily routine almost since it's first post.Thank you for all the information, guides, reviews and general positive atmosphere, this site, it's editors, writers, contributors and community have been appreciated by me for a very long time and is a big part of how I got my first industry job as a kernel engineer on Windows at Microsoft in 1999.
All the best to everyone, and thank you very much.
mlkj - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I will truly miss checking Anandtech several times a week. See you, space cowboy...ANORTECH - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Just wanting to say thank you guys for everything we have leant during this time.I will miss this site...
Best luck!
realbabilu - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
omg. this is the site that covering mobo since i was same age as anand. great covering ssd billy tallis, deep from ian.. omgRubinhood - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Sad news. Didn't know it was so tight for you guys.Farewell, thanks for all the good stuff, and best of luck on your journey!
RaiderJ - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Farewell!guardian_2000 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for the many years. A regular morning stop at my job over the last 23 years. Wish you and your team nothing but the best in your future endeavors.Destoya - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for the years of content and best of luck with all of the team's future endeavors.Igor_Kavinski - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Totally unexpected. Another part of my past bites the dust and I am left wondering what more I will lose in life. It's true that nothing stays forever but I was expecting the site to outlive me, at the very least. An unbelievably sad day indeed. I will miss the articles and it will be hard trying to find something decent to fill the void. Tomshardware is just not it for me. Sorry. But it's just not it. Thank you, AT staff for your great service to your readers and I hope all of you find success and happiness in your future endeavors.dborod - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Classy as always. Best of luck in everyone's future endeavours, and this site will be missed.Tarrant64 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
20 year member here, farewell and good luck to all.DV8_MKD - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica and Wired were my homepage in the early 2000s.Fair Winds and Following Seas
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Scitex - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Built my first box in 1999 (Celeron 300 overclocked to 450) with the help of knowledge I got here. This site has been so refreshing in the sense that I could always count on honest, thorough and in depth articles that I could base decisions on in my own tech endeavors. Your reporting will be missed in a world of Youtube sensationalists.wolrah - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I don't know when I first discovered AT but I'm pretty sure it was in the '99-00 range since I have a strong memory of reading AT on the classroom computers at my junior high. In college I used to print out long articles before going in to classes in buildings that didn't yet have WiFi.I loved all the deep dive articles that used to fill these pages. I learned so much that I never would have thought to look in to over the years. I've missed them as they became less and less frequent.
Thanks to Anand, Ryan, and everyone in between.
ikjadoon - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you to everyone who made AnandTech what it is, a sincere and thoughtful publication that educated, revealed, and analyzed tech: Ryan, Ian, Andrei, Gavin, Ganesh, Brett, Donovan, Joshua, Billy Tallis, and of course Anand.So much of my own thinking, writing, and analysis has drawn from the prolific AnandTech archives, challenging my processes and more often than not, pointing me in the right direction.
Not only for technology, though, but simply put, journalism as a whole across any field. Trust us when we say in many other fields, people would give the world over to have a *free* publication like AnandTech educating millions. It is simply unheard of.
Thank you all for the lifelong mark you've made on the world at large. I hope to see AT's core mission as a bulwark against principle-less, rigor-less, and often useless "reporting" truly revitalized, if not literally but spiritually.
That is what we owe the current and next generation of readers.
Grabo - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Best of luck on your continued endeavors and thanks for the content you've provided over the years.AmateurX - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Aw, man! :-(Although I could see the writing on the wall, I was hopeful this day wouldn't come. I've been reading the news, reviews, and using the bench feature for easily 20+ years now, and have always been able to count on the integrity that this site provides. I've used many hardware testing articles here to assist with my computer hardware purchases, especially SSD testing. I've always thought Anandtech was the epitome of SSD testing sites (especially back in the beginning).
Thank you for your years of service to better the internet world, Ryan. Good luck to you.
I'm sad another of my RSS feeds is going dark. You will be missed.
AndrewJacksonZA - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I feel a bit sad. The loss of one of the most detailed engineering focussed journalistic resources. :-( I haven't been a part of the forum side of things much at all, but I've visited the website (and later the RSS feed) almost every day since about the late '00s, learnt a lot from the in-depth knowledge of each author's area of specialisation, and even recommended products and strategies to people due to a large part of the scientific and detailed approach to the writing.The Bench has been _incredibly_ useful to me over the years. Time to ask The Internet Archive team if they would be so kind as to archive the entire site. :-/
A big thank you to everyone involved. <3
This made me smile, at least: "For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of a long journey – one that started with a review of an AMD processor, and has ended with the review of an AMD processor." From the K6 to the Ryzen 9 9950X - a slight performance improvement. :)
AndrewJacksonZA - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
What will happen to The Bench, please? What is the possibility that the database that powers the bench can be archived on GitHub or The Internet Archive so that people can download it and have access to the data, please? Heck, even as a big simple CSV if necessary.A big thank you to everyone involved. <3
zdz - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you!Seraphimcaduto - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for all of your hard work over the years! This site was always my go to site for everything technical and it is truly sad to see it go. I’m truly at a loss to find a substitute to the level of technical nuance that the deep dives provided me. Best of luck on your journey onward.Mr Perfect - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Wow, it's the end of an era. There are so many tech purchases I made (or avoided!) after reading AnandTech articles. The ASRock 939Dual-Sata2 Athlon 64 x2 motherboard during the transition from AGP to PCIe back in 2006 or the Sandy Bridge i7-2600 that feels like last year but I'll have to stop using when Windows 10 hits EoL next year. It was almost a religion.Still, it's better that you could walk away before editorial freedom ran out, it would have been so much worse if the site died a slow, clickbait death. There are other publications that where not so lucky, becoming sad zombie versions of themselves.
sniper0 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
It's a very sad day. I have been reading the articles here for many years, I have been informed about your tests for a long time.There are a lot of worthless pages alive and well, so those of you who publish useful informal content will be closed.
I am so sorry that this day has come.
I wish you all the best!
warreo - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I deeply appreciate your dedication and efforts Ryan. This has always been my favorite tech site since it first began in the '90s and I am sad to see it shut down. But as you said, nothing lasts forever and Anandtech had an epic run. Wishing you and the team the very best.I wonder if any of the constant whiners will regret getting what they wished for every time they complained about the slower time to publish due to Anandtech's in-depth coverage. Now all we have left is click-bait and shallow coverage, which sadly it seems is all people want.
Foeketijn - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for all the good reads. My company logo used to be the AT colors 2002 onward out of respect. I loved that there was a platform that not only had enthusiasts, but even better, very knowledgeable writers and commenters.Safe travels, to all of you.
Der Keyser - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This is truely a sad day. Anandtech has always been the proof that the internet is not useless when it comes to tech reviews and learning articles. I sincerely hope someone or something will surface again with anandtechs spirit and sense of details. There are no other sites I know of that is not superficial or sensation/clickbait driven. I refuse to support that kind of journalism….Thank you Ryan and all the best in your future endevours.
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So long, and thanks for all the fish <3JTI - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Tough way to start a Friday...been a reader for over 20 years. Thanks for all the work over the years and best luck to the team in the future.Y0ssar1an22 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Reader since my first ABIT BX6 + Celeron 300A build. Your work was appreciated and will be missed.digitalwanderer - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for the decades of contributing and educating the scene! I'm gonna miss getting banned from here over arguments but I'll never forget all the fun and knowledge Anand contributed to the community.Respect, thanks, and happy trails! <3
sharathc - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Farewell Team AnandTech. Good luck!!lurker22 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Sorry to hear. Im also confused why the article commenting system has no ability to see past comments or replies? Also, how come the forum login is separate from the article comment?Bik - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Hearth breaking news. Goodbye the site I love the most ever since I discovered it 5 years ago. I will forever remember the joy I had reading deep dive articles that miles beyond what other sites. I was so sad seeing farewell post from Andrej, then Ian. They have their reasons, but in the end I belive it just that they want to try new stuffs which eventually worked out for them. I was hoping that we could find talents to go along with Gavin and Ryan, but I guess that didnt come to pass. Farewell and good luck to all the editors. Bik from Vietnam.rollacorolla - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you all for the hard work over the years. This site has been an important source for me since around 1999. Through college, grad school, and now into my semiconductor career. Good luck on your next adventures!stuartrue - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Like so many others on here, I am grateful for the years of quality tech journalism. Anandtech set the standard for me of what a hardware site should be. I feel a sense of grief and loss at this news. Thank you for everything.Sivar - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Anandtech was a huge part of my teens and 20s. I remember defending its journalism quality after Tom's Hardware seemed to lose theirs after their seminal 1.13GHz Pentium 3 instability issues, after which they were mysteriously very pro-Intel.I remember, as the first moderator and assistant editor on StorageReview.com, using Anandtech as the benchmark of objectivity for our work, and the content of our forums.
I feel a great loss as I see Anandtech go, but I do feel it is time. After both Tom's and Anandtech were acquired by the same company, after the fire that destroyed the GPU testing lab, and after the widespread demise of excitement in the PC market, the writing was on the wall from any angle. It is time to pull the plug, but I will miss Anandtech long after its passing.
Thank you, editors, for maintaining your integrity in the face of ever increasing market headwinds, to the very end, an end which would have come regardless -- but would have otherwise ended a penny richer, but a soul poorer.
Golgatha777 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I purchased my first computer in 1997. Anandtech and Thresh's Firing Squad were my two most frequently visited sites for years. I've been on the Anandtech forums about as long lurking and created an account in 2003 to participate in the FS/FT forum very heavily for many years; my first transaction was 08/27/2003 and is my first feedback on Heatware.But enough about me. Anandtech has taught me so much over the years. Your technical articles are very approachable for the enthusiast, but not so dumbed down as to be fluff; it's a great balance your editors have handled well and I'm better off for it. Thank you for all the articles and I'm sad to see this site shut down. Best of luck in all the staffs' professional and personal endeavours going forward.
Ashinjuka - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
i am a better, more knowledgeable person because of this website and the people who worked here, wrote here and commented here over the years. you will all be missed but not forgotten. thanks for all the laughs, weird personal essays from commentors, and brilliant teardowns or equipment that help shape who i am today. i wish all of you, everyone one of you, the best in all our endeavors, and thank you for from the bottom of my heart and the depths of my meager brain.Slash3 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
For someone who hammers out a fair amount of writing during any given day, I can't help but find myself at a bit of a loss for words at this news.Thank you, Ryan, and thank you to Gavin, Ganesh, E. Fylladitakis, Billy Tallis, Anton, Ian, Gary Key, Jarrod Walton, Derek Wilson, Brett Howse and the many other writers and contributors who (along with Anand, of course) helped establish a pillar of tech journalism.
Thank you for continuing to keep the site accessible going forward, along with retaining the forums. Doing so is a considerate and compassionate decision and just further demonstrates the ethos and integrity that this publication has shown from the very start.
It's strange to look back at the absolute whirlwind of technology advancements that have been experienced over the years since Anand first started this site (remember the original Geocities site?). The K6 and Pentium fight, Cyrix 6x86 chips, Transmeta's Crusoe and IBM's Blue Lightning. From the Celeron "450A" to the Duron and T-Bred/T-Bird, witnessing the transition from TNT to GeForce, the rise of solid state storage, accelerated physics, compute accelerators, the meteoric rise of the smartphone segment and all of the parallel fabrication process wars, it has been a genuinely remarkable journey.
For you, your staff and any other aspiring technology writers, consider that this also marks an opportunity. AnandTech has set a very high bar with regard to process, procedure, ethical guidelines and generally positive tone. These are qualities that can and should be folded into emerging media. In a world of attention seeking, there is room for nuance, and I hope we see outlets refresh, adapt and take this torch and run with it. AnandTech wasn't perfect; segments were left underreported and publication frequency criticisms were valid, but it was always even tempered, thoughtful and above all else, professional.
From this original reader, you have my sincerest gratitude. Thank you to everyone for all that you have done, and no doubt, for all that you will continue to do.
-Slash3 / AK-Brian
(Just checked my forum signup date - Dec, 1999! Oof, my bones!)
Slash3 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Can't believe I omitted Andrei. Thank you, Andrei.lmcd - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Surreal and sad, but not unexpected. I can say with certainty I wouldn't be where I am without Anandtech, including years beyond Anand's tenure.eva2000 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Farewell Anandtech and Team. Great to hear the forums will continue to live on.aebiv - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Farewell friends, thank you for 20+ years of being my homepage.gobaers - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I appreciated your Abit BH6 review, it was a real trooper. Thanks for all the fish!ltcommanderdata - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
It really is the end of an era. Thank you to Anandtech and all it's staff for keeping us not just informed but actually educating and teaching us about technology over all these years. The 2000s in particular were an amazing time where it felt like AT, technology, and the reader were growing together and AT had an outsized influence on tech consumers and hardware companies. You will be dearly missed.zeos - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
sadgebakerzdosen - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Just to echo the others: thanks to everyone involved over the years.It's been an invaluable resource to me.
Bruzzone - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Tech as a physical consolidator claims economic, society and holistic expansion, never-the-less and in the end, over and over through time, and by warping time, proves a concentrating force. mbnekoken - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
End of an era. This was the last great hardware review link in my computer news bookmarks. Thanks for the great articles over the years.KyleGates - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
No words here. Anandtech was one of the very first HW info sites I visited way back in the late 1990s. Stunned it will be gone.LarsBars - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This is so sad to hear. I hope that the staff land on their feet quickly. I have loved reading this site. It definitely taught me so much about technology and shaped me. Thank you At for your work!I hope that whoever wrote the core-to-core latency testing goes to Tom's. This is the only place on the internet I have found who does that!
ianbergman - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for everything and farewell. Anandtech has been part of my computing life since I was in college (~2000), and has been a positive force for so many of us nerds!Haldi - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Oh.I still got an account :)
Thanks a lot for all the tests, reviews and in dept analysis Anandtech has done over all the years!
If I REALLY wanted to know something about CPU/GPUs I always found myself coming back here.
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End of an erawingless - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Anandtech, I've been following this site since ~1997 or '98. This is disappointing news. I hope that the site will be archived because I still refer to your reviews from the 90s and early 2000s. I wish the team luck on their new ventures.SikSlayer - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Goodbye, good luck, and thanks for everything.velanapontinha - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I first found Tom's Pabst guide and Anandtech shrotly after. Loved both, but always thought Anand was a little bit more my 2 cents.Never thought I'd see Anand fail before Toms.
Shitty news. I home Thomas and Anand are doing ok in whatever they do now.
npoc - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This site helped make me the engineer I am today. Thank you for the education.pjcamp - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Aw, man! You were my go to source for hardware advice. I hope you all find great success in your future endeavors.oscaration - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Fond farewell AnandTech. You will be missed. I have appreciated for years the detailed unpacking of the ever-changing technical world. Thanks!ohnoausername - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This makes me sad to read. Had to log in and post one last comment after mostly lurking for twenty years. Thank you for staying such a good part of the web for so long. You will be missed.BigT383 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I've been reading since the beginning, before the K6-2 review launched "Anandtech 2.0". Now I work at AMD and this site is probably one of the big reasons why. Thanks for everything!gonsalvg - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Wow, this makes me really sad. Thank you all for the years of excellent coverage, reviews, and keeping it simple. I think I speak for a lot of users who cannot register when I say I am not sure where I am going to go for news now, maybe besides Ian.I sincerely appreciate everyone's work here, thank you all so much.
Desertlax - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Haven't use my account in years, but managed to dig up the log in information because I felt it was important to say thank you for the anandtech team has done over the years. There has been reliably informative writing and reviews that have both stated curiosity and guided builds and decisions on tech in my personal life. I have a better understanding and as a result been better at supporting other who are not so tech inclined thanks to this great website over the decades. I hope all the staff are moving on to other great pursuits.Polacott - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
thanks for all those awesome reviews and great work. i'm pretty sure will miss anandtech.I do appreciatte the fact that you keep forums working, all the contrary of what dpreview did sometime back. Forums like this, and what dpreview was, are much more than a company, there is a lot of wisdom, a great community around and quite a unique place of gathering.
Wish the team all the best.
Obiwanbilly - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I’m 58 yrs old. I started an ISP in 1995. I’ve been reading Anandtech since 1997. I used Anandtech articles to guide our purchasing decisions. I still visit from time to time. Sad to see you go.I’ll also shout out for all peeps who don’t have an account to log in to express their sadness. 😭
Bill
JasonMZW20 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for the wonderful technical articles that have been posted over the decades. I'm sorry that we took Anandtech's quality, evenhanded writing (though naturally carrying excitement for new hardware through) and lack of baiting for granted. You will be greatly missed, but never forgotten.I, personally, can't stand the excessively opinionated, click-baity "hot takes" in videos to drive revenue. I understand it, but it's not quality journalism as was found here. It's more like tech's version of bad reality TV.
Thank you again for your high-quality contributions to the tech world! I hope the written form won't completely die out, but judging by the endless video content we have now, we'll be so much worse off without it. Best of luck to all of you, including any AT alumni.
GL - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
So sad to see this. I still remember doing my first custom build back in 1997 based on Anand's reviews. All the best to everyone who works at AnandTech and contributed in the past. You made something special and there won't be anything like it ever again.vishnumrao - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This article breaks my heart. Anandtech is one of the sites on my bookmark list that I open every single day for the last many years. I am sad you guys are shutting down.demonbug - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for years of hard work and often insightful analysis, and good luck to all the current editors in their future endeavors!ksec - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
My old account on forum has its history starting in ~1999. And my current one has starting in late 2000. Goodbye and Good luck everyone.stickmansam - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for the amazing journey all these years. Anandtech has seen me from my first computer to who knows how many I am on now. Your insight will be sorely missed and remembered fondly.watersb - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you.0siris - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for your service.awdrifter - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Sad to see you go. Good luck on your future endeavors.juicytuna - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This was the very first website I visited all those years ago on my hand me down 486, on the living room floor, over 14.4k dialup. I remember the guilt after being confronted by my dad over an almost £200 telephone bill that month. Oh, the memories.Che - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Been with this site since 2000. Sad to see it go!BloodyBunnySlippers - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I'm certain I haven't been here for all 27 years. But I'm fairly certain it's been 26. I got out of school in 1998 and very soon found TomsHardware and Anandtech. I would hit the refresh button several times a day, hoping for more news. My life has changed as well since that time. But I've been coming to Anandtech almost daily for years. I respect and appreciate your reporting and reviews. I'm very sorry to see you go. Good luck to all of you.[email protected] - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
So long and thanks for all the fish.jsepeta - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Dangit! Anandtech has provided the most thorough reviews of technology that applies to me and my work. I will miss your well-written, thoughtful discussions of relevant topics.Despoiler - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for all the years! I did enjoy them while they lasted.Beerfloat - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Been a hell of a run guys. Best of luck on your future endeavours. Good to know we'll always have those great articles available.gunjan - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
AnandTech was my go to source for in-depth reviews and articles. Thank you to all the editors and staff for being that great source of information. Farewell and good luck.isthisavailable - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for everything all these years. I hope this kind of journalism does not completely disappear from the internet.xanagu - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Put me in the screencapMikeDiction - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thankful I still have a login to post a goodbye!This site got me interested in computer hardware back in 2007. I have a lot to thank you for, but mostly that you have been one the premier reporting sources that I have always respected. Anand reviews were worth the wait for their quality.
I would use your homepage to test if the internet was working, and will dearly miss new content.
THANK YOU!!
DavidCatalano - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
As a society we must move journalism past the advertising-driven business model before the remaining reputable sources end in a similar way. Ian and team, many thanks for your tireless work and high standards.neural42 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I've always enjoyed the reviews and articles. I didn't comment much (and have a fairly new username), but I've been lurking for many years.This is one of the few sites with good, in-depth tech reviews. Thanks for all the great work over the years.
Nate_on_HW - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I began regularly reading Anandtech in 2015, when I was 17yo. It's the reason why I got so involved with computers and chose to study computer science. Thank you for everything!jar - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
this is sad news. you guys were always my go to site for hardware reviews. farewell and thank you for everythingbabakvz - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This is a saddest day for me to see Anandtech is shutting down. I have learned a lot from this website. You had a great influence on me when I started to be a tech journalist myself, and even when I retired from that job (which was my best job ever!), I still keep Anandtech on top of my feed reader.I wish good luck to you all and thank you again for everything you brought to the world of tech.
Toe - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Well shit. I've been reading AnandTech since about 1998 or so - almost its entire history. I've never been a real active commenter or anything, but I had to dust off my old account to pay my respects and say farewell!GeoffreyA - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
It's become a habit checking AnandTech, whether on the phone or computer, and this Friday afternoon, what sad news to find at the top. It feels like grief.Though knowing of the site before, I only began reading AT seriously in 2013, and it has been a constant ever since. It was sad to see Anand go in 2014 and now, a decade later, the site. AnandTech, Koroush Gazi's TweakGuides, and X-bit Labs were the chief computer sites I would read, learning so much and being entertained while doing so. AT will be remembered as the gold standard of tech journalism. Thanks for all the hard work, Ryan, for your decorum, humility, and integrity. Thanks to all editors and writers past and present. It was, and is, much appreciated. All the best. Thanks, Anand, for starting it all. I fondly remember your CPU articles and the way you made these things accessible to the layman. The titles were whimsical and humorous too: Pentium 4's heatsink was "Mount Everest," Core i7 was "The Dark Knight," for Athlon 64, it was "Judgement Day," Barton "Cut It Close," and the list goes on. Your words have sunk into my mind. To think, quality like AT fails to find a place because of money, but truckloads of rubbish prosper.
I never went onto the forums but enjoyed the conversation in the comments. Sometimes, we derailed it to topics far from computers! We used to debate a lot, and I will miss it.
As the ship drifts fatefully towards the black hole, and, to outside observers, time dilation freezes it for what seems an eternity, we say, "See you on the other side, dear friends. You will always remain in our hearts."
Geoffrey, South Africa.
mode_13h - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
> It was sad to see Anand go in 2014 and now, a decade later, the site.10 years, to the day! Coincidence? Or was there some sort of agreement in place with the publisher to keep it alive for at least that long?
> The titles were whimsical and humorous too
Yes, good point.
> I never went onto the forums but enjoyed the conversation in the comments.
> Sometimes, we derailed it to topics far from computers!
> We used to debate a lot, and I will miss it.
Same. I'll fondly remember many of our wide-ranging discussions.
GeoffreyA - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
We'll never know the answer, or at least not until the full story is told years hence; but I reckon it was coincidence: that when the time approached and it turned out to be the same period of Anand's leaving, perhaps they thought it would be fitting. Ian, I think, said that the publisher notified them two weeks ago.Fantastic discussions that had real ideas in them and will be fondly remembered. Many thanks, brother.
mode_13h - Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - link
> Ian, I think, said that the publisher notified them two weeks ago.Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I never followed him over to his new platforms. I don't do youtube or Twitter/X, but maybe I'll check out his substack or whatever.
> Many thanks, brother.
You too, bro. I think of you when I hear news of South Africa. Lets hope more of it is good news!
GeoffreyA - Sunday, September 8, 2024 - link
I don't follow Ian's YouTube channel, but his reflections on AT was notable and necessary watching for all readers of this site.Well, we had our elections earlier this year, and there was a big change where the ANC, which had been in power since 1994 after the end of apartheid, lost the majority, leading to a coalition government. It is better, and I think most people, having grown fed up with the government and its lies, feel the same. Whether things will change for people on the ground remains to be seen; but after all, these are the problems inherent in capitalism, "democracy," and other applauded systems on Earth. In America, too, the game show for the White House continues :)
CaedenV - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Wow.... kind of can't believe it!I was a massive fan since ~'99-2000, when AnandTech and Tom's Hardware were what I learned computer hardware on as a 90s kid in high school! Even as I actively avoided going into a tech career, I still ate up AnandTech as a massive computer enthusiast! And so much of that knowledge gained from chipset and CPU reviews served me well when I finally capitulated and got on a career track doing IT work.
I remember around 2007-8 when Tom's was chopped up, and the quality dipped, and it was like... well... At least there is still AnandTech for quality content! But around that time computers started lasting more than a year or two, so there wasn't that driving requirement to get the deep dive scoop on every chipset release, or minor change. Video reviewers, while not as detailed, were 'good enough' to keep up with the highlights of tech changes, and I pretty much only came back to read up when prepping to build a new PC every 5-6 years. When Anand left I kind of thought that was the end of the site, and am fairly impressed it has lasted this long under corporate management that clearly doesn't understand the audience.
But I wish all of the writers well! I'm sure you guys know that many who have left article writing under a publisher to focus on making their own content focused on their own niche interests have done well for themselves, and I hope you guys can all follow suit! Truly the end of an era, but it has far more to do with trends in consumption than the writers or topic, and I think if you follow the trends on how the topic is consumed, then you will find a much larger and supportive audience out there! Best of luck!
mkaibear - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Bye guys. I'll miss the site, you were first on my feed for aaaaaages. Thanks for all the amazing work over the years.dparson - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Really loved this site back in the day. Sad to see it not evolve successfully ;(nafhan - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I've been coming here for reviews since almost the start. You will be missed! Thanks for all you've done.nha - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Very sad indeed as It's been one of my daily reading rituals. Thanks for the great times.BillyONeal - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Going to miss you folks! Hope you all end up in great places!Gothmoth - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
are you fucking kidding me?oh well we have tiktok and other GEN Z bullshit to enjoy i guess...
the internet is becoming more and more "morons only".
i was here since the start. a nearly daily habit to check anandtech.
sad....
Pneumothorax - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
From overclocking my Celeron 300A till now! Thanks Anandtech for being a major part of my techie life!SAAB340 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for decades of high quality content! Anandtech has always been my trusted source that will be deeply missed.MadAd - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Oh hell, what am I going to set my homepage to now? Toms doesnt have anything like the same feel.Thanks to the team for 24 years of refreshes. Hard news to take.
Flibbertygibbit - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Well, I don't comment much, but... sad to see Anandtech go. Best of luck to everyone moving on!Powered by AMD - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Sorry to read this, this website was my bible from 2000 for many many years, I learnt so much and I can only say thanks to all!!Hope you can all find nice jobs and have a great life beyond Anandtech.com.
I will miss you!
teiglin - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for everything, Ryan and team. I've enjoyed my many years of lurking and am very sad to see the end of Anandtech, but as they say, all good things...WaltC - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I recall Anand's 15-25 page motherboard reviews ("the Shrimp" as he was affectionately called) and enjoyed them. Last I heard Anand went to Apple, and got married. Yes, times move on, don't they? I wish you well Ryan in your future endeavors, always remember that "the glass" is half full as opposed to half empty!techconc - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Very sad news indeed. Over the years, Anandtech has been a terrific technical resource.Having said that, I can’t say I’m surprised. The writing has been on the wall for the past couple of years as talent left and the quality and quantity of coverage dwindled down.
Thanks for all you’ve done through the years!
Pjotr - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for everything! So many of my builds over the years have benefitted from info from you.Reziarfg - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Long time reader/lurker. I think my first AnandTech review was either the Athlon XP or GeForce 4 reviews. From figuring out if I could play DOOM3 to informing every new computer build since 2002...So glad I made an account though so I could let you know how formative AnandTech was in my life. I work in IT now and I don't believe my interest in tech would have been the same if it wasn't stoked by the in-depth analysis you've provided over the years.
Truly a great loss in the world of tech journalism. Thanks for everything.
haplo602 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Hmm ... about time ? Maybe my interests changed in those 27 years but I feel that Anandtech did not keep up the quality in the last 10 or so years ? I have discovered Anandtech a bit after Tom's Hardware almost as they started (I was 16 back then). I have followed both for a long time. I have given up on Tom's some years ago, it was no longer the site I grew to like. Then things changed at Anandtech (mostly Anand going away) and the quiality started sliding. The last few years, I'd still pop in daily but it was an exception that I actually read an article or read it in full.Having said that, it still saddens me to see a part of my daily routine vanish.
schujj07 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Sad to see Anandtech go. I've been reading the site almost as long as it has been around. For a very long time it has been one of the websites that I visit daily. I wish you and the staff the best of luck in your future endeavors.Netmsm - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
the most shocking news!thank you Ryan, Anand and your colleagues
thanks for all the enlightenment you have provided about technology during these many years
wish you the best ^_^
contractcooker - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Wow, what a sad day. I used to read anandtech voraciously back in my teens and 20s (now almost 40). I petered out a bit as I got older but still hold a special place in my heart for your thorough and inciteful reviews. Pour one out for AnandTech!dharmOS - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Can I please thank the whole team for their amazing output over the years. I just realised that the first PC I self built was an AMD K6 233MHz (after I was thororoghly done with an AMD 386DX40), and the review that made me select this CPU was Anand’s first review on this website! Also had a few misfires (Samsung 840 SSD which I still use although is as slow now as the 2nd article said it would become) but hey, so what!I still follow Ian via Patreon and Tech Tech Potato.
Thanks for developing and launching your fellow journalists.
dharmOS - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I meant K6 266MHz, (K6 gen2) which is the one in the articleShadowfax_25 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
It truly is a sad day that a site as impactful and informative as AnandTech has to close its doors.This site more than any other impacted my perspective on the scale, importance, and sheer interesting detail behind the technology we so often take for granted. I have learned a lot from the various editors over the years and followed their career paths as they've become integral cogs within the very systems they (critically and fairly) reviewed.
Thank you, Ryan, and the final team at AnandTech. You will be sorely missed.
BuddyRich - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I still remember the first article I read here -> an article on overclocking the Celeron 300A to 450 Mhz... and a review for the Creative Labs Graphics Blaster TNT videocard (Using Nvidia Riva TNT) over the more dominant 3dfx card that used Glide at the time. Info I used for my first self-built PC build... (I had built a couple of 386 and 486 PCs but never assembled them, short of changing our some PCI or ISA cards, etc...) That was want 98 or 99... Crazy you guys have hung around this long (and Toms of course too... which was a competitor at the time...)Ne0 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This is so sad. I remember reading Anandtech back when it was hosted on Geocities. Thank you for all the great articles, and the best of luck to all the staff.Twirrim - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Oof. This one hurts.You started out just a couple of years before I started working full time in tech. You've been there my entire career, producing great content that always sort to go beyond the numbers and the marketing blurb, to try to figure out at least partly why various processors, GPUs etc. performed better (or worse) than competitors. Your in depth reviews are what kept me coming back all these years.
Most of your competitors either just spew out benchmark figures with no actual analysis, or spew out whatever marketing drivel they've been pitched.
The industry is going to be much, much worse without you in it.
Thank you so much for all your amazing work over the years.
DeathSniper - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for everything all these years AnandTech!kb9fcc - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for the many years of great content.thomasjkenney - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you, and I'm very sorry to see you go. Your transparency, topicality, and focus made the site invaluable to me personally, 'daily driver' level. It probably helped me to help one or more of my employers as well.GLTY! :)
Mday - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Farewell Anandtech. It's been real. It's been around 25 years since I discovered Anandtech. And I met Anand way back in the day when NYC still had a PC Expo.5080 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Very sad day! I have been reading AnandTech since the beginning, and it’s hard to believe it’s coming to an end after 26 incredible years. Your in-depth reviews, insightful articles, and dedication to tech journalism have been unparalleled. Thank you for being a trusted source of information and a beacon in the tech community. You will be greatly missed!alienz - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
A sad day! Thank you for almost 3 decades of work. It was always appreciatedhubick - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This makes me so sad. This site has been an oasis in a sea of mostly regurgitated press releases. Thanks for the many years of great articles, and RIP :-(alpha754293 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you to you and your team, and all of the writer, editors, and staff who came before.Sad to lose this immense treasure.
Bobby3244 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Sad to see Anandtech go. I feel like tech journalism is dead. I noticed it was dying when techreport was shutdown and turned into a fake tech site, I hope I don't see the same for Anandtech. The old web is gone, and now everything is ticktock and youtube.Thank you for your hard work Ryan and crew! Sad to say goodbye.
TheProv - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for everything guys! You did an amazing job, all your articles have been insane, no other website was or is comparable to you. You have been in my (not just) tech life close to 20 year, to say you will be missed is an understatement.I hope to read you again somewhere else soon!
All the best
DanD85 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Although nothing lasts forever it's still kind of a shock for me to see Anandtech go. However, I had a feeling that this day would come as the frequency of articles slowed down quite a bit. When I had my first computer in 1997, Anandtech sparked my interest in tech in general, and it has been an inspirational source for my passion for tech ever since. Thanks for the journey! Farewell!reigerreiger - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you and best wishes.Oxford Guy - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
And so goes the last vestige of a professional-grade comment system — one free of the downvoting + post hiding bloodsport. No hierarchical nonsense based on tiresome cliques and echo chamber tactics. No gaudy design. One where people can't 'ninja' their comments.I've been involved in the article comments for a really really long time. It has been great to see Anandtech's comments system persist for so long, despite the attempts by some commenters to badger the management into adopting the latest in trendy comment devolution, such as shadow banning by AI.
If I can offer one adage for people to live by in terms of technology: Progress is not always progress.
GeoffreyA - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thanks for the great discussions and debates, Oxford Guy, from Bulldozer to religion. I know we've not always agreed, but that's a good thing, because conversation with only agreement leads to nothing. I appreciated your criticism of the forces we see ruining the world, and sadly, AnandTech is another casualty of the selfsame thing.Oxford Guy - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
I'll miss you as well. It was refreshing to see someone who took the time and effort to respond to posts with consideration rather than flippant furor.GeoffreyA - Friday, September 6, 2024 - link
Thanks; I'll also miss you. I'll still be around on the internet with the same name and on Doom9.mode_13h - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Take care, Oxford Guy. I'll concede that you were right in at least some of our debates, and often had at least a couple good points. From what I recall, the main issue I had with your posts was when you were grinding an axe that too often had a tenuous connection to the article and even seemed well past time to bury (e.g. AMD's Vega).With that said, I wish you well.
JWMiddleton - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
WOW...I'm sad to see you go! I started in 2000 as a member of the SETI TeAm. I had some great times with those folks.vshah - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I credit Anandtech for keeping me interested in technology enough to make a career out of it. And for explaining some concepts better than my classes did. Thanks for everything!randfee - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
So long guys, you are the last one to shut down on my most favorite PC hardware website list of all time!This site is not just a piece of IT history, but it's part of mine. I'm about the age of Anand and I remember some discussions around the year 2k I had with him and other enthusiasts here over some hardware stuff.
To me, this website was THE primary source for well written in-depth reviews with reliable data on performance, features and functionality.
all good thing must come to an end. I hope at least the website can remain in one way or another. I just scraped some of the articles for my own personal memory/archive ;-)
HardwareDufus - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Well. I'll make this my last comment too. I've been a reader of AnandTech since the very beginning. (did change screen names along the way, leaving my real name off internet forums).Toms and Anand were both key to me starting a small PC Build to Order Business in late 1997, turning a hobby into a business. That morphed into a Tech Support and Application Development practice. Ultimately morphed into the Automation and Controls Consulting work I do today.
I still build my own desktop PCs. Probably will build the last desktop PC of my professional carreer in Q2 2005 and it will see me off to retirement a few years off. Been a fun ride.
ballsystemlord - Monday, September 16, 2024 - link
Now that's a long time reader! ^^skaurus - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I really, really, really enjoyed AnandTech, so sad to see it closing. Thank you for your hard work, and all the best!badenglishihave - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you to all who have contributed to this site! This has been my primary source for in-depth hardware reviews since 1998/1999. Crazy.dwbogardus - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I first found Anandtech in about 1999 while working as an engineer at Intel. Intel's internal web site had a list of useful recommended external sites, which is where I found Anandtech. I have been checking it pretty much first thing daily ever since. Although the frequency and scope of articles has diminished in recent years, the quality has remained outstanding. I hoped it would survive forever... Now I hope to see all the writers and editors pop up on other sites, bringing their proven skills with them, so that we may continue to benefit and enjoy them, and be well-informed. Thank you for all the great years, so far...DJPRMF - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
First comment just to say: thank you for everything!Chrispy_ - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This is a sad day - Anandtech certainly stopped being a daily read for me shortly after the Purch buyout but even after that there was some quality journalism and plenty of reasons to keep visiting the site. I need to thank the staff past and present for their service and hope you all find rewarding positions elsewhere in the ever-shrinking world of written tech journalism.Oxford Guy - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Fortunately, we have ArsTechnica, where comments are hidden simply because they're unpopular (regardless of how truthful they are — humorous for a site that cosplays as having something to do with knowledge of Latin, implying knowledge of fallacies) and certain staff are openly unprofessional and ignorant in the comments, TechSpot — where if right-wing propaganda comments are well-countered by effective analysis someone from staff pops in to warn everyone to 'stay on-topic', and the plethora of sites that required invasive Disqus and similar that do things like shadow ban based on innocuous keywords and where we're treated to PR fluff annoyances like "How do you rate the discussion's toxicity?". If we don't like these things, we have YouTube, about which nothing needs to be said.Anandtech was an oasis, mostly free from vacuous political posturing pretending to be progressive innovation. I can't recall, for instance, a single whinge comment about 'woke' this and only a single discussion about 'DEI' that. That seems to be largely due to the comments system's design not encouraging bad behavior. That the staff clearly did not use sockpuppet accounts to push political propaganda was also a factor.
One of the most egregious lies in tech commentary is that notion that 'politics' is a separate thing that doesn't intrude into general tech discourse. Everything is political, actually. However, there is a crucial difference between substantive political analysis and vapidity.
Oxford Guy - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I should also note that alternatives to Anandtech have grotesque behaviours such as leading articles with 'What just happened?''What just happened?'
Well... I lost respect for your site.
ballsystemlord - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
The reason there's almost no political comments is because they were moderated out. I know, because I responded to some of them.But as for "Everything is political, actually," that's a world view that people either adopt or are forced into. Think about it, science was advanced to this marvelous point we have today because people were willing to put aside politics and focus on objective reality. That's why most publications of yore lack anything political at all.
As for why, the answer is easy. If everything is religious, then random people can't control the narrative because there's a pope in the way. Likewise, if everything is science, that is, objective, then once again, who can fight reality and win? But politics isn't like that. Ever changeable and based on how we organize society, they just insert themselves to change that society and disorder the ordered portions. Thus power and control are theirs for the taking.
Oxford Guy - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Everything is religious but not for the reason most people believe. Everything is religious because, from the point of view of the university (perfect objectivity), our lives have no meaning. Therefore, all things we think are important — that thinking is religious in nature.Regardless, that has nothing to do with the fact that everything in human society is political. The only way to avoid it is to have no society.
ballsystemlord - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
> Everything is religious ...Out of curiosity, is that viewpoint a result of a reductionist mindset which ignores, for example, the various human drives for survival, or are you fundamentally expanding on the teaching in The Bible, namely, that "God is love," and thus all acts of truly caring for oneself or others are loving in nature and thus religious?
> Regardless, that has nothing to do with the fact that everything in human society is political. The only way to avoid it is to have no society.
True, but that doesn't mean that politics must be subjective. If you start from a scientific point of view you'll quickly see that intellectual dishonesty makes no sense. US politics, which today is pretty much based on intellectual dishonesty, must, therefore, not be based on objective truth/scientific principles.
In saying that I, or we, believe not all things are political or wish the aforementioned, we are referring to that particular subjectivism for which current politics, at least in the US, is so infamous.
Oxford Guy - Friday, September 13, 2024 - link
Bally: 'is that viewpoint a result of a reductionist mindset which ignores, for example, the various human drives for survival'Calling genetic impulses reductionist is redundant.
Genetic impulses don't a philosophical system make.
The bottom line with my comment clearly has nothing to do with a particular form of religion. The religious nature of our lives is the fact that, objectively, our existence has no purpose. We invent that and that is religious.
'If you start from a scientific point of view you'll quickly see that intellectual dishonesty makes no sense.'
See the Prisoner's Dilemma and its extensions, for a start. Dishonesty absolutely makes sense for humans. It's one of the most basic steps in developmental psychology. Children who do not lie have a massive intellectual problem. From a larger point of view, it is true that dishonesty is irrational. Humans, including those genetic impulses you spoke of, are fundamentally irrational.
Oxford Guy - Friday, September 13, 2024 - link
The irony is that AI is perhaps humanity's best hope for finally 'achieving' rational governance.Genetic engineering to improve global IQ (not in a petty classist way) is the other method but the world can't even manage to reform English spelling and America can't manage a metric conversion. Signs do not point to us getting there. We're far too invested in our pettiness.
ballsystemlord - Thursday, September 19, 2024 - link
> Calling genetic impulses reductionist is redundant.(You lost me on this one.)
> Genetic impulses don't a philosophical system make.
I wasn't trying to say that our impulses do make a philosophical system, only that they are not scientific nor religious in nature, though they may be explained scientifically. E.G. why do some people prefer rap over rock music? It's rather subjective and not religious. No religion I ever read up on had god saying, "Thou shalt rap, before thou rockest thy music."
> The bottom line with my comment clearly has nothing to do with a particular form of religion. The religious nature of our lives is the fact that, objectively, our existence has no purpose. We invent that and that is religious.
Or is it that a God exists and, therefore, the only way our lives can be reasonable is in light of that God through that particular religion which adheres to Him?
You see, your argument is basically that nothing (the non-existence of God), is more powerful than something, with that something being God. But at least in my own life, I find that I, who am something, am more powerful than nothing, such as ghosts (which don't exist and so are a nothing). Likewise, we can derive the existence of God simply by eliminating all possibilities which lead to the fall of the being in question.
>> If you start from a scientific point of view you'll quickly see that intellectual dishonesty makes no sense.
> See the Prisoner's Dilemma and its extensions, for a start. Dishonesty absolutely makes sense for humans. It's one of the most basic steps in developmental psychology. Children who do not lie have a massive intellectual problem. From a larger point of view, it is true that dishonesty is irrational. Humans, including those genetic impulses you spoke of, are fundamentally irrational.
Notice, I'm talking about the scientific point of view. Not the point of view of a prisoner trying to escape justice, nor of a spy trying to evade exposure. If I'm a scientist, then I observe the universe and relate what I have learned. But if I relate intentionally misleading data, then the truths of the universe are not exposed, but instead hidden still further.
Therefore, the entire existence of "science," as it is called, is based on the understanding that all scientists, without exception, will seek to produce valid data -- even if that data is too narrow in scope or affected by some other thing which the scientist is unaware of.
Likewise, the foundation of logic is truth. "Elephants are pink. Nelly in an elephant, therefore Nelly is pink," is perfectly logical. But because of the flawed data it's also dead wrong.
Thus, I propose that a true scientist, someone who loves reality, someone who's constantly wowed and thrilled at the awesomeness of the universe, would seek to be the most intellectually honest person in the whole world.
> The irony is that AI is perhaps humanity's best hope for finally 'achieving' rational governance.
Humans are imperfect. AI is created by humans. Therefore, AI has been imperfectly created. Which is why I brought up Nelly above. You can try to nullify reality, but it doesn't work. At best, it only delays the inevitable fall of the facade.
> Genetic engineering to improve global IQ (not in a petty classist way) is the other method but the world can't even manage to reform English spelling and America can't manage a metric conversion. Signs do not point to us getting there. We're far too invested in our pettiness.
Again, technologies which would be used to modify DNA are used by imperfect humans. Therefore, we can't create better humans that way.
But more to the point. IQ is something both those who do good and those who do evil have. Take Hitler as an example. Would someone who's stupid be able to run for election, win the election, and then take over the whole country as dictator while simultaneously eliminating a significant portion of the population? (Not to mention militarily outsmarting and overthrowing a number of countries.)
I think that in time you'll find that the basis of success is in basic morality, not IQ, AI, or anything we invent.
GeoffreyA - Saturday, September 21, 2024 - link
Oxford Guy, I think that "our lives having no meaning or purpose" cannot be proved or disproved at present. We know very little of all there is to know, and much of existence is steeped in mystery. Of what came before our universe and what is beyond it, we have no certainty but only speculation. It could turn out that Life does serve some purpose in the long run. Leaving humans aside for a moment, one may ask, what is the purpose of the universe? Some will say there is no purpose. However, there is a mystery, unsolved right now, related to information, entropy, and black holes; I should not be surprised that our universe has a function: perhaps it is a cosmic hard drive of some sort, a computation device, or a compression artefact.Coming back to life on Earth, atoms don't have "meaning" in the sense we understand. Meaning is a human construct, so we have to go back to definitions and ask, from the universe's point of view, how would meaning be defined? Is sentience required to define it? We ourselves are composite beings, built upon layers of abstraction, and while we can be reduced to subatomic workings, there seems to be something emergent in consciousness at least. Can it be that life, or sentience, is a mechanism of the universe to perceive itself?
On AI and rational governance. Unfortunately, as AI stands at present, being a system trained on human data, one that can be curtailed but not programmed to be good, moral, or rational (as a classical program might), it seems they'll be just as problematic as us, if not more. Already, we've seen biases in AI, amplifying prejudices in training data; erratic behaviour demonstrated in early versions of "Sydney"; and hallucinations, passing off fiction as truth with a straight face. They are early versions of humans. The calculations these models use are mathematical, but the resulting network built out of training is anything but "rational." It is more like a map from one to another. In the same way, our brains are running on the mathematical laws of physics, but the product, put together a certain way, is often irrational.
Oxford Guy - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
(Goofy typo. University was supposed to be universe.)mode_13h - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
> The reason there's almost no political comments is because they were moderated out.Yup. I responded to some, as well.
> science was advanced to this marvelous point we have today because people
> were willing to put aside politics and focus on objective reality.
Science could stay apolitical until it reached conclusions that clashed with certain world views. See Galileo.
> That's why most publications of yore lack anything political at all.
For a while, tech was a niche industry where capitalism was allowed to do its thing. I think the main things that changed are when it because the dominant platform for public discourse and then became a battlefield for geopolitical conflict and economic nationalism. Essentially, the politicization of tech was yet another example of something becoming a victim of its own success.
On a related note, the first time I really started to take computer security seriously is when hackers started stealing logins to financial accounts. Then, when ransomware happened, it took the importance of cybersecurity to a whole new level, even for the average user. For sure, governments and big institutions always had to worry about hackers, but it used to be the case that you didn't have to worry much about being targeted if you had nothing of great value.
Oxford Guy - Friday, September 13, 2024 - link
'For a while, tech was a niche industry where capitalism was allowed to do its thing. Essentially, the politicization of tech was yet another example of something becoming a victim of its own success.'Translation: The politics of tech for some time were highly compatible with my worldview. The current politics of tech, not so much.
GeoffreyA - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
I think there's a lot of politics in physics today, as can be seen from scientists falling into string and non-string camps or "quantum mechanics is perfect" and "quantum is incomplete" camps. The latter, dealing in alternative approaches such as loop quantum gravity and taking the insights of general relativity seriously, are a minority. There seems to be a belief that GR must change to fit into the quantum picture, but talk of quantum mechanics' incompleteness is not seriously entertained. The fact is, both these theories are pointing to a deeper truth. As for the string theorists, their ideas are out of the reach of experiment at present and, therefore, as good as fantasy.Then, to throw religion in here, some theories in physics are of a pseudo-religious nature, not being falsifiable, and much of the multiverse, many-worlds thinking is of this sort. If an infinite number of universes, coupled with the anthropic principle, are needed to explain our universe, its exact laws and constants, and life, how different is that from metaphysics operating in the religious domain, but falsely dressed up in the garb of science? Man will create or find God anywhere.
Well, at least science is science, where we expect objective facts to rule the day. But if we look at the world round us, Gaza being an instructive example, sections of the world are distorting the tragedy happening everyday, to square with their view of life. Otherwise, the truth might be uncomfortable. It seems, at the end of the day, everything is political.
Oxford Guy - Friday, September 13, 2024 - link
'Well, at least science is science, where we hope that objective facts will rule the future.'FIFY.
Politics in scientific circles can extremely seriously trump factuality for long periods of time. Just one example of many is the way the 'reduce sugar intake' was obliterated by 'reduce your fat intake' in nutrition science. Usually, the truth eventually comes out.
For some truths, though, we have been waiting for hundreds of years. At least one of them comes to mind right now that I am unable to post because of the incompatible of that truth with current politics masquerading as scientific fact.
iamgenius - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This is just too sad. I have been a reader since 1998 I think. I learned a lot from here. Although there is less traffic in the forums lately due to the changes in the internet, anandtech.com is still the most visited website by all my machines since the 199x. Thanks a million.ryrynz - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
RIP one of the greats, needed to evolve a bit with the times, but was always known to be good. Seen you guys around for about twenty odd years and always been impressed.dmds99 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I’ve had you bookmarked and clicked almost daily nearly all this time. Sad to see you go but understandable. Best wishes to all involved.MeJ - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Fare thee well. It's been on the cards for a while, clearly. You now join a host of publications of superior quality that have faded off into the shadows, heads held high. I have been here since the first issue, as I was with the others. TTFN.ant6n - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Oh well. Farewell.abufrejoval - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I’ve always been fascinated by computers, but had only read about them in books. I’d never seen a picture so when I found myself in front of a shop selling Nixdorf computers in my home town Berlin, I tried to catch a glimpse but only saw ordinary desks with typewriters. You don’t have oil tankers in a store that sells oil tankers either, I guess. And those might have been more common at the time. Perhaps even smaller. And cheaper.At 17 I came to the US as an exchange student and got offered a “BASIC programming” course offered to high-school seniors by a small Ohio technical college.
That was in 1980 and the rest is history: I eventually studied computer science and never did any honest work since; instead I got paid for doing my hobby, and pretty well, I might add.
I was extremely lucky in that I decided on the most “professional” computing platform available at the time, the “[IBM] Personal Computer” and the fact that it became a 43 year [and counting] success story, that for a time at least replaced everything else there was, even very nearly the IBM mainframe, against which all things were then measured. And key to its and my success remained it accessibility and openness: I could always afford a state of the art machine, that might not be the biggest PC/x86 based machine out there, but which allowed you to extrapolate how the most giant variants would function, operate and perform from the box at your feet at home.
And that confident expertise, which came from having exhaustively validated everything I sold to customers and employers hands-on, supported my life and my family for my entire career.
Try doing that with Google TPUs or other exclusively cloudy stuff!
When I first discovered AnandTech, I had long since become renown as an expert beyond most. Even I believed that every now and then! But those kids dove deep and then explained stuff in such a wonderfully easy yet uncompromisingly accurate and scientific way, that got me very deeply hooked for perhaps only the last 15 years, which of course is only a small part of my run.
Hey, I did Fortran on a PDP-11/34 with magnetic core memory as a hustle, I even punched some Fortran on Hollerith cards! So all you milk-beards stop being so agile for a moment when I try to make a point! For me an interpreter starts with LISP not JavaScript or Python!
So in a way it’s fitting that AnandTech is shutting down as I am preparing for retirement, too. I may just not be able to afford going beyond the RTX 4090 for bigger LLMs and I’m no longer holding my breath for the 16TB of non-volatile yet perhaps computing Memristor-RAM in my workstation Martin Fink promised for The Machine. Mostly I see my secret weapon shrivel and die: the PC which allows anyone to do what the IBM mainframe never did: trying things yourself at home.
And the end of AnandTech is an obvious symptom of the final revenge of the mainframe, which came back as a cloud with a lock-in disguised behind figures CxOs just want to believe. They tend to forget that scale doesn’t work for them, but the other side.
GeoffreyA - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
I appreciated your reflections on technology and the world, even if I didn't always understand everything.mode_13h - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
abufrejoval has many interesting things to say. Just... sometimes, too many things, going off into too many directions.Settling on one or two main points, ideally with a narrative through-line, can really help focus a post, tighten it up, and result in more people actually reading it.
GeoffreyA - Sunday, September 8, 2024 - link
Well, at least abufrejoval has many ideas, which is hard to come by these (imitative) days.mav1178 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I have not logged in here since... forever.but thank you Anandtech for being the first tech site I ever went to back when the Pentium CPU was the size of a Game Boy. and thank you for all the great info over the years.
yes - the entire industry changed a lot, but honestly I would not have followed tech as far as I did had I not kept up the review/reading. my brief stint in the hardware marketing industry resulted in the hosting of the MSI CES suite at Aria Hotel where I got to shake hands with Anand once. just once. but it was damn cool.
cheers for all the help over the years!
XilehNori - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for everything, for all the years of great contentHolliday75 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I grew up in this industry with Anandtech. Sad to see you go. :(xiixexe - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
thank you and farewellabufrejoval - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you!Thank you Anand, thank you Ryan, thank you Ian, thank you Andrei, thank you Anton, thank you Gavin, thank you Johan, thank you Billy, thank you Jarred!
And I am very, very, very utterly sorry I’ve only ever viewed your site with Ublock Origin turned on to full hilt and thus might have hastened your demise!
I don’t remember ever reading or heeding a single ad.
If indeed I had forgotten to turn on the shields before coming to one of my favorite sites, I hit the emergency stop immediately and made very sure indeed that the full block was now there before I dared to re-enter the likes of AnandTech, which would immediately become an immensly treacherous jungle without a full ad-block.
You see, I like ads about as much as I like torture, people singing out of tune (or no more than three tones in an entire song), YT videos which split your ear-drums or feature AI generated tonal agony: that is quite literally killing me!
And it won’t ever get me to purchase anything, ever! Torture can’t make me spend! A good tease will!
I’ve bought quite a few things based on what I read here. You definitely did your job in whetting my appetite and providing inspiration to my intellect, or perhaps only plausible excuses.
I’m just terribly sorry you didn’t get paid for that properly!
But that’s not really my fault, it’s the fault of whichever blithering idiot invented the ad-economy and sold management on it: sometimes I yearn for that iron maiden!
I *did* my share consuming, I swear!
That this didn’t translate into your bottom line is a tragic sorrow I shall carry to my grave…
Quite a busy road, I’m afraid!
dali71 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
End of an era.thomasrm - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks to Anand and everyone who's contributed to the site. I've been reading since Core 2 was The Big Thing (and eventually owned my first one in a hand-me-down build) and the content here definitely helped push me on the technical path I've followed in the intervening, oh, 15 years. This will be an unfortunately quiet feed on my RSS reader going forward :(GruntboyX - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Farewell and best wishes.valejo - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Farewell. I’m a lifelong reader and went to high school with Anand. He brought the first digital camera I ever saw to trigonometry class one memorable day—it wrote to a mini-CD.I have built half a dozen computers off of information I learned here, about one every 4-5 years for the past 25.
To make things even weirder, I ended up being an SEO professional and later an affiliate business executive at a large publisher. That was quite a seat! I routinely thought of what was going on in the industry relative to what was happening at AnandTech. I also sort of knew what was happening when it first sold.
Here’s to all the benchmarks!
sprockkets - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This site had its run. But today, learning from Ian that Anand sold it to the same guys that owned the horrible Tomshardware, it was never going to make it.I mean, I hope Anand is happy working for one of the worst, ruthless megacorps of America.
PintOStout - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you to the entire Anandtech team for the past 27. I am not sure when exactly I started following the site but it was definitely pre-2000 when I was always planning my next custom workstation (either at home or at work) and advising friends and family on their needs. While I stopped rebuilding my PCs with any regularity about a decade ago , I still kept coming back to the site to know what was going on. When it came to indepth technology reporting ...none were better.Gyro231995 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
RIP, probably logged into this account last maybe 10 years ago. I used to read this site religiously. Before the purchase it was the best hardware site on the internet.[email protected] - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
So long and thanks for all of the -fish- knowledge.Placer14 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Long time forum lurker stopping by to pay respects. Thanks for the great content over the many long years!yacoub35 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Definitely sad to see this. Pleased to have been a reader since near the beginning. Many great articles throughout the years that were so informative about new generations of hardware, and overall a site that was so much help when deciding how to spec out a new PC build. Farewell and all the best in your future endeavours!humanentity - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
User from like 2003. Lost my user don't know how. This one is from 2016. And as a silent reader I want to show you my personal appreciation for what in my view have always been: the most polite tech news medium of all. Politeness that I've always seen extensive to the user base I found in the forums. Life however is harsh in my country and my enthusiasm on Custom PC gaming building faded away. Not dissappearing. Just getting overhelmed by the need to thrive in life. But I comeback may be in the works. And if happens I will be in those forums asking for recomendations. Opening one of your articles was like opening a gift. So detailed that you could fantasized with it in your case use scenario. Good vibes. Internet is not the same with that old school journalism you have been working for. Thank chaps.laweber3 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I've greatly enjoyed the tech reporting at Anandtech since the very beginning. As one reader, my thanks goes out to Anand and all of you!voicequal - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thanks for the hard work and dedication - Anandtech set the gold standard for tech journalism for years, and its impact will carry on.JSwaid - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
It's been years since I have actually bothered to login to post a comment but it would be rare to have a day past by without loading up AnandTech at least once to try and catch the latest tech news or read a well written and very informative review. This site will be missed and Tom's was never a fitting substitute (Go Team Anand!). Good luck to all on your future endeavors. Now I need to go scour the Intertubes for a suitable replacement!Siphen - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I will miss this site so much, it's what started my interest in computers and kept me so interested in it for years later. I really don't know what i will do to keep my interest in technology without it. Going from voodooextreme as a young gamer, to an adult with a strong history in hardware. Thank you to everyone at Ananadtech for doing all you did. It has been a complete pleasure to read your content. The one and only site that i visit daily for new content will no longer be here. Thank you all, everyone over the years, for all you have done.RWeekly_Outcall - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Not all editors are created equally.Dolda2000 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Truly a sad day. While the writing on the wall for written media has been obvious for quite a while, it's sad to see it hit the best sites first, and I really don't love the trend overall. I understand why video is more attractive for advertisers and why all the money seems to be there, but as a form of Internet media, it is obviously inferior in virtually every way.The polemic aside though, thank you so much for all the good articles over the years. Anandtech is one of the main reasons why I started caring more about the hardware running the software that I write, and I've always looked forward to the deep dives of the latest chips!
o7
Wtcher - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
So long, and thank you so much; your band was the shining beacon in the sea, steering us through turgid waters.May the winds carry you to new and wonderful adventures.
mooninite - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I was a reader since the beginning and so I will add my condolences and thanks along with the countless others. Thanks for being a diamond in the rough of tech journalism. Hope you all land on your feet with something else you enjoy doing.May all of us continue to stand up for honest and accountable journalism.
Tom Braider - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Wow. It seems I still have an account eve though I have no recollection of ever registering one. But it has been so many years. Thank you, team, for all your hard work over those almost 3 decades.quaz0r - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I won a new computer from Anand once. Thanks brosocket420 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Extremely unfortunate, but sadly unsurprising. I'd like to express my gratitude for keeping the forums and all of the old reviews up for the foreseeable future so people can (hopefully) archive them - I was born after Anandtech was founded and sadly didn't get to experience it in its prime, but it's an invaluable reference for 90s/2000s retrocomputing and I know I'm not the only one who appreciates that. Thanks for the 25 years of reporting!Deuge - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Been a reader since the 90s! Sorry to see you guys go, it's been great and insightful content. All the best for the future!xunknownx - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
i'm so sad. you guys were one of the last remaining blogs that actually review items, like do actual in depth reviews. All the other blogs just have a bunch of affiliate links with low quality articles that care more about clicks than good quality articles, reviews that arent actually reviews and more of a hands on. I will miss this site greatly.PVG - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for everything. Most of what I know about PC tech I learned here. From K6 to Zen 5, from NV3 to Navi, I've read them all. You will be missed. Farewell.rickon66 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Been around since the beginning - Oct 99, saw Anand buy his first BMW. Sad to see it go, it used to be a great place to get information and the forums were great fun. As Bob Hope used to say "Thanks for the Memories".MonkeyHood - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for 19 years of hard work. Anandtech was always one of my go to websites for deep technical analysis of CPUs and GPUs.Best of luck to you and any Anandtech staff in your future endeavors.
Legendarydust - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I don't know exactly when I first started visiting Anandtech, but I know the year still started in 19. Thank you for all the decades of scratching my itch to learn about technology and how it works.bronskrat - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I guess nothing is permanent. I kind of thought this site would exist forever. Heck, Fark is still going! But this takes a lot more work. Sad that such quality is gone. Hopefully it'll begin somewhere soon. Farewell Old Friend!bakihanna - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Thank you for all the great years of work and all the knowlegde teh team provided us all. You will all be greatly missed by the community. Best of luck on your future endeavors.Disorganise - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
It's a bit like hearing about the passing of a school friend :( Anandtech was a staple of mine during the Anand days. I guess I've been part of the problem, though, as I've used YT to keep up to date on news for quite a few years now. But I pop over to Anandtech for the deep dive and the technical detail that often goes over my head, but I feel smarter just for being exposed to it :)I wish everyone involved the very best for the future. "So long, and thanks for all the fish"
OCNewbie - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
I did a lot of growing up with AnandTech always in the background. I imagine there are many that can say something similar. Nostalgia is hitting pretty hard right now. Thank you for all the memories.Panoramix0903 - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
This is very sad news to me...Thank you very much for all the years Ryan.
Thanks a lot to everyone behind AnandTech.
This site will always remain in my Favorites.
I can't believe, this is the end...
I wish you all the best!
AtaStrumf - Friday, August 30, 2024 - link
Logged in for the first time in 17 years to say goodbye to a very dear place on the web.First it was DPreview and now AnandTech, wonder who's next?!
Times they are indeed a-changin!
megapleb - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
In my view, Anandtech had the best technical review on the web for a very long time. Any time a new processor in particular came out, this is where I'd come to understand its architecture and performance. Thank you, you will be missed.shamgar03 - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thank you for all the hard work and years of great reporting.Powervano - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Sad to see AnandTech shut down. It has been my go to website for in-depth reviews and analysis. Thank you everyone who contributed to this gem!T2k - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Holy shit man, I'm literally shocked. I admit I rarely bothered to log in in recent years (marriage, kids, divorce and so on - cycles of life), but AT is still part of my weekly readinf cyxle, for 20+ years now. So jow it only WAS...?? Oh man. :((That being said, I hope you have some great plans for the future - good luck & tahnks for all the fishes!
Squuiid - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
So very sad. Ryan and team, I wish you all the best.palladium - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
I started reading AT to research my first build (Nehalem) and I just bought the 9950X after reading your final review. When I first started reading tech journalism no one else bothered to comment or write about warps, cache latencies or the anatomy of SSD. I am glad that is changing and I can confidently say AT played a big part in that. So thank you for everything.DAOWAce - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
RIP the best tech site in the industry.May your legacy live on indefinitely.
o7
Den - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Wow, the end of an era.Flying Aardvark - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
I read Toms Hardware before AT existed. But AT for a while was my favorite during this site's golden era. I rarely checked AT recently, but THG is going strong. Fitting ending as I see it. I did enjoy these forums the most, but was banned multiple times, ATF was definitely a place where people played the rules, had biased mods and basically a women's social club of nonsense. I did get to say a lot of mean things to a lot of deserving targets though and kept coming back until the articles got less interesting.RIP Anandtech and Anandtech forums. I had a lot of fun here.
ozzuneoj86 - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thank you Ryan and the rest of Anandtech for all the hard work over the years. I've been visiting the site since 2000 or so and have learned a lot. It will be strange to not be visiting it regularly for up to date hardware news and reviews, much like it was with other hardware sites that have either closed or changed dramatically, like TechReport, Firingsquad, nVnews, vr-zone, Hexus, HardwareSecrets, Rage3D, Beyond3D, SharkyExtreme... and probably others I am forgetting.I will say though, "retro computing" is a big thing and Anandtech's articles (and Bench!) will continue to be a huge asset to that community. I know I look at the site regularly for that purpose, and I will definitely continue to do so as long as it stays online. :)
aminfaiz - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
By 2024s Big Tech/Media finally killed off their "alternate" competitors by replacing them. AnandTech would have survived if the pre algorithm and pre bot era of the internet persisted. The internet became a private property from a public one slowly before our own eyes (Evolution of Youtube, Facebook is a good example).ST33LDI9ITAL - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thank you.ST33LDI9ITAL - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
It’s been a good run.someotheruser - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Farewell and thank you for all that you have done and best of wishes for all the future endeavors.nirolf - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Sad to hear. Thanks for everything guys and all the best.TranceFat - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Incredibly sad day, I must say.From the early days as a dorky, geeky kid,
I profess my love for AnandTech.
While other sites were often times a wreck,
I could always depend on AnandTech to keep my (tech) knowledge in check.
Thank you for all of the help and insights since ‘98,
I will never forget how you have filled my mental plate.
:)
ballsystemlord - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
No more rhymes now, I mean it! (It's a quote from The Princess Bride.)GeoffreyA - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Or to the pain! :)yannigr2 - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thanks for 25 years of info and news.Arnulf - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Welp, sad to see another interesting tech website go (after bit-tech and more recently Guru3D). Not many interesting alternatives remain :-(Best of luck to everyone on their new journey!
davebyrd - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
this site's been terrible for 5 or 10 years. it'll not be missed.cablecartman - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
what a douche comment to say. completely unnecessary.flyingpants265 - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Ummm, it's the truth.mode_13h - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Not remotely. The past couple years have indeed been pretty bleak, but you don't have to go back for to see some of the better CPU reviews & deep dives on the web.This site helped popularize microbenchmarking, like the core-to-core latency benchmark and the use of SPECbench 2006 and 2017 test suites. SPECbench suites provided a far more apples-to-apples comparison between PC and mobile cores than black box benchmarks, like GeekBench. Furthermore, IPC performance wasn't something I'd seen discussed outside of Anandtech, until somewhat recently, and that's partly because few others were willing to take the time and trouble to try and measure it.
This site also had some of the most in-depth coverage of Apple's cores I've seen. That was hugely instrumental in countering some of the disinformation out there about them, by PCMasterRace and other fanboy types whose egos couldn't handle the notion that there could be anything technically superior about Apple products, much less something as fundamental as their uArch.
mode_13h - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
LOL, posting my last self-correction... we never did get that *edit* button! :P> you don't have to go back for
Should be "you don't have to go back far"
YoshoMasaki - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Wow. AnandTech's writers have always impressed me with their knowledge and professionalism. They earned my trust in a way that is hard to imagine these days. A sad day indeed.PEJUman - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
To the entire Anandtech team. Thank you. I have enjoyed your content for 20+ years. Am equally distraught with the flavor of journalism today; 100% with Anand on his take of the fine line between academic/entertainment pieces.Maybe that is just me getting older… regardless, Anandtech will be missed and thank you again for the numerous years of intellectually engaging pieces.
NewWave - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Your reviews quality is in unmatched, especially the drop down index of sections, the comparison tables and the benchmarks bar-charts. I've made some good buying decisions based on your reviews. Thanks and Goodbye.Tams80 - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
It's very sad to see. It was a great journey and thanks so very much for the detailed and knowledgeable articles and reviews, even if I didn't understand most of them.Unfortunately, the writing has been on the wall for several years now.
sauria - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Wow. I wish you well, and, this is such a great loss.MarcusMo - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thank you for many years of fantastic content! As many others have mentioned, you were a great inspiration back in the late ninties/early 2000s. Was fascinated by everything you wrote and pursued a CS degree and career in no small part because of it.Thank you to everyone who has contributed over the years for the hard work you’ve put in to educate and entertain people, it’s been a great ride! Best of luck in the future!
greenmrt - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Oh man. This takes a piece of my heart. I'm sure the core readership has gotten older (as have I) after relying on this website for nearly three decades of intelligent, in-depth, trustworthy analysis. My thanks to everyone who has made this place an incredible catalyst in the tech industry.CosmoJoe - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Very sad to read this :( I was in college when Anand launched the site. I remember the other big tech sites at the time were Tom's Hardware and Sharky Extreme. I have been a regular visitor all these years. I definitely want to thank you all for the wealth of articles over the years. Again, it is sad to see the site close. I guess people want to get their news on Tiktok or Youtube now :( Best of luck to you all!Rishi100 - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
I followed Anandtech since 1997, when an internet connection and computers were first available to me, almost coinciding with the birth of Anandtech. Checked it almost daily till 2014, when mobile phone started becoming more interesting. It was Anandtech which gave me confidence to choose my components wisely and always assemble it with the best than purchase from a company as a box. I'll miss it badly. This is my first comment and wanted to let you know that a fan existed in India who travelled yards with you all these years. My best wishes to all of you who were associated with the website till it last day.Einy0 - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
All good things come to an end. Thanks for years of great content!dcaxax - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Anand has been my mainstay for tech products since 1998. I will miss it! And as much as I like Tom’s Hardware, it ain’t the same and can’t replace it.Goodbye and thanks to all of you for your hard work and the quality you brought to it.
Schmich - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
You can all only be proud of the work done during all those years. We can only thank you for it as we've gotten so much out of it. Best of luck for future projects.Brazos - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Everyone deserves a pat on the back for a job well done. You have helped me learn a lot over all of these years. Thank you.SirDragonClaw - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thank you for years of great content!I wish you the best luck in whatever you pursue next.
Flux0r - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thanks everyone for being a part of my (near) daily reads for over 23 years.About 8 years ago I had the good fortune to randomly meet Anand at a dinner party, and and got to thank him in person for the impact Anandtech had on my love of tech and hardware.
Not all goodbyes are bad. Hope you're all still occupying some mental space of mine in another 23 years.
dubyadubya - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
I was here day one or near it anyway and Anandtech.com has been my home page ever since. I will miss the in depth reviews.lane42 - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Buy buyMerovign - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
o7, Anandtech! May flights of Yamaha OPLs sing thee to thy rest!LeftSide - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
anandtech.com is basically muscle memory at this point. I don't even have to think about it to type it in. When I was younger I would read every review. Wondering what the next big thing in technology was. I used this site to inform myself before purchasing many PC builds. I remember trying to explain to everyone why SSD's were so much faster than hard drives and then linking them to reviews that Anand had done. Convinced they would upgrade themselves. It was a blast to hear them come back and say "Oh my gosh you were right, my computer is so much faster!" That wouldn't have been possible without the knowledge from this site.Unfortunately PC upgrades are slowing down, and my builds are getting further and further apart. I just don't need to visit sites like anandtech as often as I did. It's sad though. Next time I need to build a PC I don't know where I'm going to go for my deep dive CPU analysis, or Power Supply recommendations.
Good luck to all the writers. I hope you find a great place to continue doing the hard work of finding the best hardware for the $$$.
InsidiousTechnology - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
TYVM all for the years of education, fun, excitement (at times), and being a place that one could almost always go to for good reviews of gear, analysis of technology etc. I have to quibble with one observation "for better or worse"...I cannot think of anything that makes the tech space better with Anandtech's absence from it. Not one. GL all in your endeavors and with this changing of an era - lets hope it doesn't become something matrix-like.webdoctors - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
There was some excellent articles and reviews in the past. Truly set a benchmark for the industry. Liked the quality of the graphs and benchmarking done of new products and often would even reference it when talking to folks.ssiu - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Can't remember if I follow Anandtech since the beginning, but it should be sometime in 199x. And while I seldom post here for many years, I still regularly read the articles (news and reviews) and not using adblockers. So, just signing in to say thank you and best wishes to all staffs.fastman696 - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
I've been here since the beginning and learned so much back in the day when computers were new Tech. The place did take a nose dive when Anand left but I still returned for certain things. Good luck to those jumping ship.dananski - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thank you to all who worked on this site over these several decades. I've been a reader since buying my first PC component back in 2007 but beyond the useful benchmarks and thorough product testing, I got sucked in by the depth and quality of articles, the writers diving into technical details with a contagious enthusiasm.Here I enjoyed reading things I never needed to know about z culling and VLIW; I read things about some particular Opteron's latency issues and Sandforce controller firmware bugs, which against all odds somehow later became relevant in my work, as did the methodologies of investigation I absorbed along the way.
So after 17 years of reading, it comes to a close. It's going to be weird if the site eventually drops off my list of most visited ones, but I'm glad what's here already will remain for reference and nostalgia.
My very best wishes to you all for the future.
Manch - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Ive been reading this page since the very beginning. This sucks! I was sad when Dailytech shutdown got bought and turned to rubbish but at least I had anandtech to get my longform news. Yalls site will be missed!sor - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
NoWardrop - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
The end of an era. I hadn't been frequenting Anandtech as much recently, partly because of a chance in personal interests, but also was driven away a little bit by some of the imposing advertising and website changes that came after the sites sale all those years ago. Needless to say, AnandTech was unique among it's peers, and it's hard to deny that AnandTech helped shape parts of the industry.Y23KC - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Thanks for being a part of my computer journey since I discovered Anandtech in 1998. Learned a ton of information about what become a hoppy of mine that I recently got back into. Did a lot of hardware selling/buying on the forums in the early 2000s as I stayed close to the cutting edge of new release hardware.broberts - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Very sorry to read this news. AnandTech has been a valuable resource.DigitalFreak - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
The site was never the same after Anand left. Good on him for selling when he did I guess.data003 - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Brutal, you will be missed.andrewaggb - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Watched so many of my favorite tech sites die over the years. Definitely will miss it. Thanks for everything.Jacmert - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
For a couple of decades, whenever I opened up a browser on a new computer or needed to test the Internet connection, I automatically typed "anandtech.com". It was burned into my muscle memory :P thanks for starting me on the path of learning about computer architecture, ultimately leading me to a career in that very same VLSI and silicon industry I read about as a kid.AnnonymousCoward - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
Wow....AnandTech has been my favorite tech site for 25 years. I wish the best for you, Ryan and the others!CU - Saturday, August 31, 2024 - link
I found this site in 97. So, I have been around since the beginning. I read this site everday for years. Sad to see it go.Performance Fanboi - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
This site changed everything - the effect Anandtech had is immeasurable. Thanks for everything!Iketh - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Despite having the feeling the site was coming to an end, I'm in shock that it's actually happening. My homepage was AT from around 1998 to around 2015, and still today I visit AT first for all new hardware data. I'm still going to check AT first until the day I die, just in case. Even if the site's owner stops paying the bills, I will check.- Iketh, signing off
kefkiroth - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Going to be hard to find a replacement for high-quality, no-nonsense tech journalism and particularly hardware reviews. Discovered this site over a decade ago and never looked back. Thank you for all of your work over the years.yankeeDDL - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Well, that's an unexpected and not pleasant surprise.Thank you so much Ryan - and everyone - for the great content created during the years. I've been a long term fan and I have no trouble considering AnandTech the best tech site around. You will be missed.
Gillll - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
farewell and thank you for one of the best hardware sites there are. thank you for your quality reviews. wish you the best !Astromacky - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
What a shock news. Thank you Anandtech! A 20+ year reader here. Your technical content and quality of reviews was second to none. Will be sorely missed.RedGreenBlue - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
This is so sad to me. I check Anandtech every day for something new and I started reading it 20 years ago in the 6th grade. Thanks for doing what you could to keep it going. It’s a sad day for the tech journalism media. I’m glad they’ll keep the site up.RedGreenBlue - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Anandtech was always a great distraction when something life had me stressed out, anxious, or depressed. I never realized until my 20’s that it really helped take a lot off my mind and the deep dives and chip analysis was basically therapeutic.Carmen00 - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Farewell, AnandTech. You had some great pieces—especially the deep dives. Thank you for those.Good luck to all writers/editors, I wish them well on their next adventures.
BZD - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Damn. I will miss the well researched and written articles. It was a good run.Seems like click baits and sensationalism is winning, a fact that is made clear by the suggestion to read Toms Hardware as that place is far from being of Anandtech quality. Once it was, but over the last decade or so more and more it is not.
y2kyudhir - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Thank You Anandtech . End of an Era . Always my goto source of Tech Information .jobrien70 - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Farewell AnandTech, it has been an incredible almost 26 years (I think it was 1998 when I was looking into building a dual processor system that I came across AnandTech)!ozon - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Sad day, but you guys take care! Thanks so much for the hard work and info over the decades.nunocordeiro - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
End of an era... This website was *the* reference for the longest of times. It's crazy to me that you guys could no longer make ends meet considering the established reputation of AT. It's a cutthroat business out there....!ancientarcher - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Everyone at Anandtech, past and present, thank you!You have been a great source of information and will always rate at the top of my list of tech sites. Your site has always been the first point of call for me when I want to know about any technology. You have been a constant presence in my browser window over the last 12 years.
All the best guys!
Zink - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Thank you for inspiring us, you guys got me started in Computer EngineeringUNCjigga - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
End of an era. I briefly met Anand after starting college via a mutual acquaintance from Enloe High. Before then, I thought of "tech journalism" as exclusively the domain of PC Magazine/Ziff Davis for some reason. His approachable take on maximizing performance per dollar and overclocking had a profound influence on my passion for computing and the neverending march of Moore's Law. After I became an Anandtech (and ATOT) regular, I started building my own computers, got a gig at my university's computer store to help pay my living expenses, and even worked for a local computer shop over my summers.I'd have to say the biggest influence this site had on me was helping me find my career. I quickly realized computer science wasn't the path for me while in college--I just didn't have the brain for complex matrix theory or the coding discipline. But through this site I was introduced to the ins and outs of tech marketing, and the importance of knowing your customer (i.e. tech enthusiast vs. business user vs. average consumer) and messaging appropriately.
The tech journalism landscape has definitely shifted over the past 20+ years, and while we're much better off than we were during Ziff Davis' heyday, I can't say everything is necessarily for the better. While I can appreciate some of the YouTube and TikTok content creators out there, I will miss the in-depth reporting and balanced approach that made this site so special.
virvan - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Memories... I remember reading you since I was a poor middle schooler in Eastern Europe dreaming of the day I will afford that coveted Duron build. Eventually I saved enough to buy a Duron 750, and the hardware choice was driven entirely by Anandtech. Every single hardware decision since then has been driven by you guys.You guys defined an epoch for many of my peers and you will be sorely missed. Thank you for the memories, thank you for the fish, thank you for making a nerd's childhood a delight
Dizoja86 - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
The Duron 750 (and the pencil trick for overclocking) was also my start of following Anandtech.Genuinely sad to see the end of this site, especially as I haven't yet found another page that approaches hardware in the same way.
DBissett - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Wow, what a blow. Since first learning here about overclocking and speeding up a Celeron I have read so many reviews, guides, comments, recommendations and builds here I can't imagine replacing all the expertise with another source. Anandtech has remained at the top of my bookmarks for at least 20 of the 27 years. Thanks for the whole experience. We are all much better off that Anandtech persisted for so many years.widyahong - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
lol finallly i can finish reading anandtech..ballsystemlord - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
"You have reached the end of the internet."Crono - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
AnandTech used to be my online home, so I will be a little sad to see it go even though I haven't been active here or on the forums in a few years. But it's really not a surprise to read this article as the writing has been on the wall for quite some time now given the gradual, steady decline in AnandTech's prominence in the tech enthusiast community and loss of active readership.It's unfortunate that successive ownership hasn't really had anyone at the helm that had vision and passion to invest time/resources to keep AT relevant - *without* compromising by giving in to sensationalist trends or sacrificing journalistic integrity. It may have been a difficult proposition, of course, but AnandTech could have been turned around at various points in its history, especially with the rise of new platforms (podcasts, youtube, etc).
Media outlets like Gamers Nexus and Linus Tech Tips have actually come back to give written form some attention, even while expanding their own testing capabilities. Are they at AnandTech levels of journalistic purity and technical analysis? Possibly not, but they at least have a shot of getting offering some semblance of that, and may stick around a while and evolve to that point. Monetization diversification and retaining ownership certainly helps with their survival chances.
Regardless, the AnandTech website and forums were a fantastic resource for many years, and I learned a lot about computers from the writers and fellow enthusiasts here. You will be missed.
- Crono (aka Ziv Zulander elsewhere)
darckhart - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Thanks for all the good reads and recommendations. I remember finding this site in the late 90s when I was in the middle of high school becoming a tech nerd. And I found Anand's site far better than the Tom's Hardware opposition and declared my camp. Many a purchase decision was influenced by these very reviews, forums, comments.Been visiting nearly daily since then and definitely more lurking than posting. I enjoyed the simplicity of the site and the clarity of the writing and charts and tables. Read an article or bookmark it to read later. No unwanted auto loading videos. Sad to hear there will no longer be any new reviews. But great news that the site will keep the archive and the forums! Thanks for all the hard work! Good luck in your next endeavor!
PreacherEddie - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
I did not post much, but read a lot. I truly appreciated the writing from this site and the commitment to impartial reviews of computer hardware. Thanks for all the editors, recent and past, for the help that you have given to many of us.MCX - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
In the midst of all the sensationalism and personality-based tech journalism nowadays, being a little boring is almost ironically like a breath of fresh air. I echo your hope, that the inspiration you provided will manifest itself as serious tech journalism in the future.Goodbye Ryan and AnandTech - You have been a constant trusted voice for me, and I thank you and wish you the best of luck.
mode_13h - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
> there’s (almost) no such thing as bad products, just bad pricing.Thanks for the "almost" qualifier, because there absolutely *are* such things as bad products. For instance, something that wastes lots of your time or corrupts your data could easily be worth *less* than $0.
For a product merely to be mis-priced, the bare minimum standard is that it must basically function as promised, if not terribly well or competitively.
Thunder 57 - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Or PSU's that burn up.mode_13h - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
> Continuing the Fight Against the Cable TV-ification of the Web>
> ... the need for quality, in-depth reporting has not changed. If anything,
> the need has increased as social media and changing advertising landscapes
> have made shallow, sensationalistic reporting all the more lucrative.
Just want to echo this. I hope we can all try to find and support authors who are open-minded, don't pander or resort to hyperbole, and are highly transparent about their test methodology. Beware of anyone given to reaching overconfident and simplistic conclusions.
mode_13h - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
> I am happy to report that the site itself won’t be going anywhere for a while.> Our publisher, Future PLC, will be keeping the AnandTech website and its
> many articles live indefinitely. So that all of the content we’ve created over
> the years remains accessible and citable.
Thank you so much, for this! I've cited your articles numerous times and seen others do the same. They're also cited quite heavily by Wikipedia, underscoring both the importance of keeping this content live and showing just how much poorer the tech world will be, without new reviews and in-depth coverage that made the site what it was.
GeoffreyA - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
It's important that, copyright or no copyright, the community archives the AnandTech corpus.velatra - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
:-(shplatt - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
Thank you for staying true to your principles. This site will be sorely missed.ianmacd - Sunday, September 1, 2024 - link
All good things...G_Squared - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
I never really commented, but this has been one of my favorite sites to visit over the past 2 decades I've been interested in tech. I will greatly miss the publications and I wish the entire staff the best and look forward to where you all will go nextatirado - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
Thank you for 27 years of knowledge, education and fun to read information.End of an era for certain!
at80eighty - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
Feels like a funeral. thanks for all you did.i grew up with you guys, & your site built the foundations of my tech understanding, and shaped a career.
Your team is _the_ GOAT in the tech journo sphere. & to paraphrase a quote "I'm your favourite techie's, favourite techie"
May all of the team do remarkable things in future; then look back and be proud.
farewell friends
serendip - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
Farewell Ryan et al, and thank you for all the great work you all have done over the years. The CPU and GPU architecture deep dives on Anandtech remain unparalleled in terms of details and the sheer amount of effort put in to go beyond manufacturer press release data.Kudos and fair winds always.
Leosquizz - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
I think i´ve been checking this site since the beggining... the first memory that i hav is looking for articles about the nvidia riva tnt or tnt2... of course i´ve noticed the decline in the number of articles, but i´ve remain loyal to the end... checking updates every couple of days or so... well, its been part of my life for longer than i would like to admit (yes, i´m old)...hope you guys have all the luck in world and my best regards... cheers from brazil!Notmyusualid - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
So sorry to read this article.I only became 'Anand-aware' around 2006.
Best of luck guys, to which ever endeavours you persue.
Da W - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
So sad.Wish y'all the best.
blppt - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
Damn. Another legendary tech site goes down. Gonna miss you guys.TobiWahn_Kenobi - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
You will be dearly missed. I've been lurking for ages, almost no post, but still always here.nauht - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
I haven't used this account for years now but I'm posting this comment as a farewell to the site I visited everyday during my high school years in the 90s. I'm glad the site and contents will still be online even after sunsetting - It's been a great ride!effxiikc - Monday, September 2, 2024 - link
Wish yall the best and thank you for all the great content over the years!Harry_Wild - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Sad! Goodbye Anandtech!🙋🏻back2future - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
] Thank You for all the information and detailed content and for that archive of computing development.Best wishes for @all [
Cainethanatos - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Farewell , when ever there was new thing (and wanted a deep tech dive) .the first site to check it out was Anandtech .
together with voodooextreme (rip), , tomshardware :) and rip hardocp
Last few years, mostly Anandtech. Part of the routine I guess.
The end of an Era , godspeed!
carldon - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Good luck everyone. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insight through these articles. Wish you guys the best for the future and hope to read more of your work in other sites.SkyWalk3R - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
So sad. Anandtech is my most favorite site when I want to read computer hardware articles since 1990's. Thank you Anandtech !!!gorbag - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
End of an era. Sorry to see you go, but also look forward to whatever you guys do next. I'm sure, even distributed over a number of different gigs, you'll have an impact!Thunder 57 - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
I don't know why so many are thanking Ryan. He is a fat faced idiot who had no business being in charge of the site. I'll quote someone from the Dr. Cutress video, "Not all editors are created equal".That guy claimed for a long time wildfires were the reason this site couldn't do GPU reviews anymore. Idiot. Watch the video by Ian, he lays it out.
hd-2 - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Thanks for all the hard work over the years. I grew up reading legitimate reviews of the latest hardware on AT and got into a lot of the same tech for my own job thanks to your dedication to the technology.Nfarce - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Like many others here, I first discovered AT in the late 1990s when researching for component info for my first PC build. Since then I have built 8 dedicated gaming-only PCs from the case up and maybe half as much in core core component upgrades in the same case the build was in.AnandTech's review layouts and charts I much preferred over other well-known tech review sites. In fact when researching old GPU performance comparisons from the late 1990s into the 2010s, AT is still my go-to for archived reviews.
So long AnandTech. The train has reached its final destination.
FriendlyUser - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Sad to see this site go. Special thanks to Ryan and E. Fylladitakis. I greatly appreciated the rigorous PSU reviews!do_not_arrest - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Honestly, good riddanceParhel - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
I've been reading AnandTech since maybe a year after it launched, and in the last 25 years I probably haven't gone a month without visiting the site and reading a couple articles. Thank you for all the quality content over the years! Ryan - you've done a great job carrying the torch all these years, and I appreciate all you did to keep the site running. Best of luck!Dribble - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
All good things come to an end eventually - Anandtech in it's prime reporting on the PC hardware boom was a lively place, and I used to enjoy coming and checking out the latest news and reviews. However all good things come to an end eventually, the world has moved on and I guess you need too as well.Thanks for all the memories, and thanks to Anand for it's creation.
jmunjr - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Bye Bye, AT!vol.2 - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Thanks for keeping the torch lit for a little while longer, Ryan. Anandtech has been an important touchstone for me in the world, and it was great to have it live on after Anand left. Best wishes to you for the next step in your life. Hope to see your name out there in the future.ruthan - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Well, there was allways a bit o problem to make simply summary at the end of reviews or.. Einstein told, if can explain something simply you dont understand it.Lots of review where hard to read and i other hard what is new in Apple conference could cover anybody with a bit o HW knowledge.
I looked for Apple Mx vs intel analysis a got some Apple conference news.. You menu and searching in articles was not good..
ruthan - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
I also never liked impossibility to edit comments, podcast where also often too technical for me, i stopped to listen them 10 years ago.. Regardless thanks for trying.hechacker1 - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Bro Hugs. I love you man.Athlex - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Wild to think I've been reading AnandTech for a quarter century... Thanks for all the interesting reads and good luck with what comes next!Arutius - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
I have enjoyed AnandTech since 1997 when i first heard about the new website from a fellow hardware geek while shopping at CompUSA, lol. Thank you all for everything you have done and written. It has been an awesome educational and entertaining experience nerd raging over the development of the over the years.God Bless and good luck to all.
Rezurecta - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Thank you much for everything. Anandtech was my first site that got me into PC hardware many years ago. It has been on the top of my Computer bookmark list for over 20 years.Can't that everyone enough for helping me become the person I am today and in the career I'm in now.
ol1bit - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
So sorry, been with you guys from very early days. Good times! I remember waiting for your reviews of everything hardware.Happy Trails!
GCustom - Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - link
Thank you for the years of great contentHakaslak - Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - link
Thank you for all the news over the years. It'll be hard to stop typing 'anand' when I'm looking for tech news.Nogami - Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - link
Thanks for everything over the years! Always the best technical writeups, no stone was left unturned!Zoolook13 - Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - link
I started following tech-sites in the mid 90s and since the start Anandtech was always part of my daily check, in the beginning because it was always quick with the latest news and with well written articles with little bias and deep architecture analysis. Altough lately its been farther betweem the articles it has stilll been a favourite and I'm sad to see it goo away.Thanks for all the hard work through the years!
wrkingclass_hero - Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - link
You should absolutely have Brian Klug in these staff photos, he was one of the very finest writers here, I don't know why you excluded him. Also, Jared Walton should be here, too.Zeratul56 - Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - link
I owe a lot of my early passion in technology to Anand and the website. Sad to see it go since I haven’t found another site with the depth of information. All things come to a close eventually and wish all the current writers well in their future endeavors.alufan - Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - link
Well all good things and so on, Anandtech was my go to when I first got into Computers years ago and I would read every article Daily, however I have to say after Anand himself left it just never seemed the same, I particularly disliked Ian Cutress as I found/find him self promotional and very heavily biased towards Intel indeed I stopped visiting when he was here as the front page was basically an Intel marketing board!Hopefully folks will find other things to get on with and put food on the table farewell.
RavnosCC - Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - link
farewell! A good run.Carceri - Thursday, September 5, 2024 - link
Dammit! Thanks for all the hard work over the years. AnandTech and HardOCP were my two favorite places on the internet in the early 2000's. Where do you go now to look for quality tech journalism?nitemareglitch - Thursday, September 5, 2024 - link
When HardOCP died this was the last site I used for hardware reviews. Thanks for all of the amazing content, now I have no idea where to go in order to get informed on hard drive benchmarks!drajitshnew - Friday, September 6, 2024 - link
I am going to miss this site. Great content and reviews that you can sink your teeth into.while this login is less than a decade old I have been following anandtech since 2000
mauers - Friday, September 6, 2024 - link
I am heartbroken as well. I have used articles from AnandTech to decide on my next pc build that's within my budget and it helped me a lot. I will definitely miss reading articles from AnandTech. And thank you all at AnandTech for all your hard work. God bless you all in your future endeavors. Thank you.mandrix - Friday, September 6, 2024 - link
Wow. I am very touched. When I built my first pc I came to the forums for advice, I came to the site to learn about new tech. Glad to see the forums will still function though.hehatemeXX - Friday, September 6, 2024 - link
Farewell my beloved!!! Was great growing up reading about all the technical details into products. You made it all worth while!ballsystemlord - Friday, September 6, 2024 - link
It occurs to me that some day you, dear reader, will stumble upon this defunct website and ask, "What was anandtech? Was there any good content?"So, I thought I'd point you to some of the more interesting articles. Other people should feel free to add to this list.
First off are the interviews. Ian might not always ask what you'd like to know, but they are insightful none-the-less: https://www.anandtech.com/SearchResults?q=Intervie...
Of course, anandtech had massive amounts of data on their motherboard lineup lists. In addition to the obvious USB and other port counts they wrote them complete with power phase counts. These will sadly just go out of date, so no real need to link them herein.
Other good articles include ATI's switch from extracting ILP to TLP in GPUs:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/4455/amds-graphics-...
There's the revolutionary HBCC tech AMD recently pioneered:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11717/the-amd-radeo...
And who could forget Optane?
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12136/the-intel-opt...
For those of you who want to know just how bad QLC performance is:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13438/the-corsair-f...
Paying special attention to this graph:
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph13512/fill...
which shows QLC being just as slow as an HDD. The H10's QLC is even slower than an HDD.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14249/the-intel-opt...
Granted, you'll get better performance a lot of the time, but the lag spikes you'll encounter are quite something.
Here's an example of one of the fastest SSDs at the time. Notice the amazing endurance (TBW) of this TLC drive. Sadly, you don't see that kind of endurance on TLC drives nowadays.
https://www.anandtech.com/print/13512/the-crucial-...
In a similar vein, here's an article on SSD data retention. It's a bit dated. But there's literally nothing else I've ever found on the topic -- even in datasheets.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-abou...
The first discovered speculative instruction attack.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12214/understanding...
A tech which gives pause for concern.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16269/microsoft-plu...
Here's the 5800X3D. One of the first chips to feature an extreme amount of L3 cache.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17337/the-amd-ryzen...
And who could forget the world's first 6 core CPUs for normal people?
https://www.anandtech.com/show/3674/amds-sixcore-p...
"The last thing we would dream of doing is complain about pricing on these parts." -- Anand Lal Shimpi
https://www.anandtech.com/show/3675/tigerdirect-of...
How chips are made / chip fabrication. I seem to recall a much more recent article on the subject, but I can't seem to find it.
https://www.anandtech.com/print/8223/an-introducti...
Happy reading, gentle soul.
GeoffreyA - Sunday, September 8, 2024 - link
If I may add to this excellent index, gentle reader, here are writings on celebrated CPUs and their architectures. While they may seem primitive, and would doubtless collapse, if not burn up, when decoding H.269 32K video, they led to the CPUs you use today, teaching the companies many lessons along the way.Breaking the 1 GHz barrier. Pentium III woes.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/498
https://www.anandtech.com/show/500
https://www.anandtech.com/show/613
Pentium 4. Supposed to take Intel to a multi-GHz future.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/661
Athlon 64. AMD's titanic, but not infallible, successor to the K7. Brought the x64 extension to x86 and an integrated memory controller. Struck fear into Intel fans.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1164
Pentium 4 Prescott. Intel tries again but falls flat at 3.8 GHz. Synonymous with low IPC and high heat.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1230
Core 2 Duo. Emerging from the failure of the Pentium 4 and D, Intel struck back with a descendant of the Pentium III. AMD would not fully recover till Ryzen, over a decade later.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/2045
Phenom. AMD on the counterattack, with mixed results.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/2183
https://www.anandtech.com/show/2378
The Dark Knight, Core i7. Brings in turbo and other things. All seems lost for AMD.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/2658
AMD makes gains. Phenom II.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/2702
Sandy Bridge. One of the best architectures of all time, underlying most principles used today: Intel, AMD, ARM, Apple. Curiously, it used a few techniques from the ill-fated Pentium 4, implementing them more simply.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/3922/intels-sandy-b...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-brid...
Bulldozer. Supposed to take AMD back to the front but sank them into the ditch, bringing AMD close to bankruptcy. Original, Bulldozer shared computation units among cores but had low IPC and used a lot of power. Went through four iterations.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/the-bulldozer-...
Ryzen. Thanks to excellent engineering, pouring in all they had learnt from Bulldozer and the competition, a sombre but hopeful AMD was finally "back" and would later take the lead. Ryzen brought high core counts, high performance, low power, and value. So disruptive that it sent a complacent Intel into a spiral of ill-thought-out decisions they have not fully recovered from.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11170/the-amd-zen-a...
Intel fights back. Atom comes of age.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16495/intel-rocket-...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16881/a-deep-dive-i...
Apple leaves the Intel ship and sets sail on the M1.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-appl...
ballsystemlord - Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - link
EDIT: Geoffrey A, above, didn't mean H.269. That doesn't exist yet. (And when it does his post would look like something a time traveler would write.) What he doubtless meant to write was one of H.265, H.264, or H.263, with the first option being the most likely.GeoffreyA - Thursday, September 12, 2024 - link
It was intended, addressing the reader of the future, perhaps the 2050s, when 32K video is being encoded with H.269. For each iteration of the ITU-T compression standards, it takes about a decade. (Whether or not a DeLorean was used in finding this information is undefined.)ballsystemlord - Thursday, September 12, 2024 - link
Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying.ballsystemlord - Monday, September 9, 2024 - link
I recall incorrectly. The linked chip fab article is the only one on AT.LeTiger - Friday, September 6, 2024 - link
End of an era - so long, and thank you for the fishZenthar - Saturday, September 7, 2024 - link
Thank you for all the hard work, you've been with me ever since I started building my own computers. You will be missed, but never forgotten (old age aside, which might come sooner than most of feel comfortable admitting ;) ).osv - Sunday, September 8, 2024 - link
thx to the staff for all you've done for this industry!Hrel - Sunday, September 8, 2024 - link
I mean, you guys haven't been doing the deep dives I came here for, for a long time now. The AMD Bias in the last Intel CPU release was off the charts, to the point of not even including total power draw, ONLY peak! Unbelievable! WIsh I could be sad to see you guys go, but it was going downhill even before Anand left, since then the pace accelerated rapidly.I guess Tom's Hardware is all we really have left at this point, TechPowerUp for databases. Sad to see, but then again with Moore's Law being dead for a decade now, it was inevitable.
Nfarce - Monday, September 9, 2024 - link
Guru3D is another long-running site I've been using for many years and they haven't changed a bit in quality testing and result reporting.lmcd - Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - link
Signed back on to let you know that you're completely off base and the article was solid. So long and good riddance!OzzieGT - Sunday, September 8, 2024 - link
It was a great run. So long, and thanks for all the fish.poohbear - Sunday, September 8, 2024 - link
Thank you for all the insighful and informative articles over the past 27 years. I've loved reading them since I was a teenager and you guys were always my go to site for serious and in-depth reviews. All things come to an end, onwards and forwards.Thank you!
biigD - Monday, September 9, 2024 - link
Wow - end of an era. Thanks for everything guys!slice - Monday, September 9, 2024 - link
Thanks for all the great years and wish you all the best!johnnycanadian - Monday, September 9, 2024 - link
It's a sad day, but I will always remember and treasure ATech as the definitive go-to for very technical, in-depth reviews.jbwhite1999 - Monday, September 9, 2024 - link
Ryan, Ian, and all of the great writers here - I've learned a lot from your website over the last 25 years. Thanks for such in depth articles on processors, hard drives, and motherboards...Rankor - Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - link
Happy Trails!Been a member since 2000.
Chris F - Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - link
Thanks for all the years of amazing technical deep dives this was one of the best tech websites to ever exist and everyone involved should be proud of their work.gescom - Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - link
Thank you for the really good and quality articles over the years and good luck in the future. CheersMyrandex - Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - link
Oh wow! I’ve been following diligently since I was in middle school or high school. For many years it was my browser’s home page. I’ve been wondering some things as of late, but thank you for one last publication airing everything out, and good luck in all future endeavors. Here I am an IT professional with more than 10 years of experience, who’s career definitely has been influenced by this site 🥲NYCmob79 - Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - link
Thank you!Anandtech has been on my first spot in my tech news Bookmarks since I was in college, late 1990s!
I am going to miss this website.
Alexvrb - Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - link
Ack! I abandoned TH because they weren't as neutral as AT, especially the news side. I'm not sure I want to go back... but at the same time, tech journalism in general is not in a great spot. It's hard to find sites that are accurate, thorough, unbiased, and aren't sensational. We certainly are seeing the cable TV-ification (well now more like social media-ification and politicization) of tech, in an attempt to stay afloat. I guess I'll go searching once more.Good luck, and thanks for all the fish.
Der2 - Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - link
OH man. This is it. I am late but I will always remember that techy writeup of the iPhone 6S. It's been a great ride.Like 2trip - Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - link
My god I never thought Anandtech would go away. It's always been here even if I didn't visit every day. I would come here for news and stories and test results that didn't have any BS or bias attached to thim. And while yes Tom's Hardware is there, it is NOT the same and never will be.murraymartini - Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - link
OMG, I have been reading your articles since the beginning! When I first started out in IT, between Anand and Tom, I learned so much about PC components. Thank you for all those years, I wish you the best.DillholeMcRib - Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - link
Been here since 1998. Will miss showing up every week to see whats new. Best of luck.SaiMorphX - Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - link
Thank you for everything, I remember and miss Geocities, I think the internet was so much better back then, computers and new thing were exciting.This is sad. I wish the best for everyone here, Idk, I don't see tech going away so I never imagined a site like this going away. but I remember when ZDTV went off the air and the screen savers was no more, etc. just another chapter gone.
See you around.
solomonshv - Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - link
i think this is my 3rd post in the 2 decades that i had this account and visited this site. i usually just read reviews and articles. this was a great resource for when i needed things specs not clearly mentioned by the manufacturer, contents of the package, dimentions, etc, and not just the performance.sad to see you guys, DPReview and others go. i prefer writen media over the current trend of youtube and tiktok "reviews" that offer no real substance. i know that things have to change and nothing lasts forever, but it feels like things are chaging for the worse.
pugster - Thursday, September 12, 2024 - link
In the heydays, I still remember reading articles from Phd Thomas Pabst from Tomshardware and a teen Anand Lal Shimpi. They were the best hardware review sites at the time but over the years it went thru its ebbs and flows and changed alot. Thanks for the memories.Violet Giraffe - Thursday, September 12, 2024 - link
But why? Is it financial trouble? I don't believe any reason was given in the article (unless I'm blind).danwat1234 - Thursday, September 12, 2024 - link
Ian Cuttress video on his Techtechpotato channel about his time with Anand. Y'all are legendary mad respect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6DWmWcHaYChromatin1 - Friday, September 13, 2024 - link
Thanks to you and all the members of Anandtech. I always had this website and Tom's bookmarked on my browser, and I greatly enjoying reading a variety of the articles that were published over the many years that I have been a computer enthusiast. Best of luck with your future plans.lordcheeto - Saturday, September 14, 2024 - link
This is sad news, thanks for all the hard work over the years.NickCPC - Saturday, September 14, 2024 - link
Thanks for all the info over the years - best of luck for the future to all the remaining team.EasterEEL - Sunday, September 15, 2024 - link
This has been one of my go-to sites for many years. Very informative and excellent reviews which can be relied on for decision making. Thank you and best wishes for the future.For a quite a long time the fizz seems to have gone out of enthusiast hardware, the golden days are long gone. WD releasing SMR NAS drives, Intel gen 13/14 processors (oh dear) and AMD certainly know how to screw up a launch. Nvidia never ending price gouging, where did it all go wrong?
Oxford Guy - Sunday, September 15, 2024 - link
'where did it all go wrong?'Perhaps the origin of the problem is the pushing of closed systems. Closed systems are great for corporations because they take away consumer agency. For consumers with money to burn, they're good but the majority of people haven't money to burn.
Need a replacement battery? Sorry... it's soldered. Need more RAM? Sorry... it's soldered, too. Need a new CPU in order to run some super-important whiz-bang instructions so that your machine isn't 'deprecated' and thus can't be used safely on the Internet because corporations have used security updates as leverage? Sorry... no CPU upgrades for you. Instead, we change the socket every round, solder it down, or find some other way of making it impossible.
The first closed system was the VideoBrain, I think. It flopped but others followed. The highlight is still the first Mac, where Jobs fraudulently demoed a unavailable 512K model (in order to Mac it do tricks that the actual Mac couldn't do because it was so incredibly hobbled) when unveiling the 'first Mac' to the tech press. Could one upgrade the awesome new 128K Mac that just went on sale for the very first time? Nope — not without replacing the innards at vastly too-high a cost, considering that the only difference were some RAM slots.
Perhaps if a benevolent global tech dictator had mandated that all consumer computers (except for special form factors like tablets and watches) be open systems things would be a lot more fun these days.
The other big problem is that there is duopoly all over the place. Duopolies are very close to monopolies in how they function most of the time.
Woz took the philosophical stance that open systems are best for consumers. Jobs took the opposite (and the Breakout money).
Finally, companies like Apple have pioneered holding consumers hostage with security updates — plunging highly-capable machines into landfills due to insatiable corporate bloodlust. Microsoft saw how well that game has been working and is following suit. There should be a global treaty that mandates that hardware be fully supported with security patches for no less than 10 years and that includes motherboard BIOS updates.
Oxford Guy - Sunday, September 15, 2024 - link
On second thought, I think 12 years should be the minimum and it should start when the company's last piece has left the assembly line — not when it is first introduced to the market.It's telling — how long copyright lasts versus software protection for Internet-oriented devices. Do we really need animated mice with nearly infinite lifespans or do we need productivity machines we spent a lot of money on?
I have a 2013 Macbook Pro with a 1 TB SSD and 16 GB of RAM. It has better specs than 'Macbook Pro' machines Apple has been selling recently. There is absolutely no good reason why this machine isn't supported by the latest in Apple security.
GeoffreyA - Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - link
On Android, there's a similar problem. Companies don't want to support phones for long, and after a while, OS and security updates stop. My 2019 Samsung phone, a budget one, had two Android upgrades; its last security update was in May 2023. There's also an S9+ lying about: despite being a former flagship and having strong hardware, it is stuck with Android 10 and a locked bootloader that prevents installing LineageOS. Samsung is waking up and supporting their newer phones for longer, but I don't think it's common in the Android world.As you point out, the computer is becoming increasingly closed. I agree; there should be regulation that hardware is supported for a decade, and now more than ever because of general reliability and speed.
But it is a pattern we see from all sides. Take the excellent JPEG XL format, which should be pushed by all parties, but instead, Google is undermining it, having removed support from Chromium. This is the power these corporations wield.
ET - Monday, September 23, 2024 - link
I'd say that it went wrong with Moore's Law slowing down. We certainly had a lot of terrible launches in the "old days", whether those which didn't really up performance (Pentium 4, Bulldozer) or things like the Pentium floating point bug. Lots of crappy GPUs.The reason early days were excited were because we could count on performance going up thanks for process advancement. This is no longer true. It takes longer for new processes to arrive, and it costs more to design for them and to manufacture on them, so we can no longer count on getting more performance for the same price.
The other reason is that PCs are no longer mainly an enthusiast market. In "the old days" PCs you have to have someone technical build your PC. Now the majority of users use laptops, some even used only phones. PC users don't really need the most powerful hardware for most tasks. PCs are just good enough.
pirspilane - Sunday, September 15, 2024 - link
Thank you for all the wonderful articles and analyses. I know you worked hard on them. Unfortunately, I don't see that there is anything out there that will replace the great work you were doing.RomanPixel - Monday, September 16, 2024 - link
Farewell and thank you for the work and articles! I really appreciated the detailed tables of specifications for CPUs and other products, and the in depth text explaining new technologies/features. Sometimes I also found reviews of products not covered anywhere else and high definition photos of products from angles that no one else was doing here, really spread light on missing features, answered questions on compatibility, or the actual look of products and their quality.letmepicyou - Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - link
When I made some comment that got me banned (for some reason), I knew that people were in control of this website that didn't have its best interests at heart. Sad to see it go, but it was predictable and intentional.Markfw900 - Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - link
Join the AT forums, ands the distributed computing team !StevoLincolnite - Thursday, September 19, 2024 - link
R.I.P Anandtech.Knew the writing on the wall when reviews of GPU architectures stopped happening... So I ended up going elsewhere for my content.
But for decades I used and relied on this site heavily. SSD anthology was an incredible writeup.
Best of luck to you and the team on your next adventures.
fybyfyby - Friday, September 20, 2024 - link
Thank you for all your articles. Anandtech will be written into my memory forever!SaolDan - Friday, September 20, 2024 - link
Well... I used to visit Anandtech and MSN multiple times a day. MSN is garbage now. Then it was Anandtech, notebookcheck, Tomshardware and MMORPG.com but MMOs are dead so that left me with Anandtech, Tomshardware and notebookcheck. Now Anandtech is shutting down so im down to Tomshardware and notebookcheck. Times are tough.two.scan - Saturday, September 21, 2024 - link
For those about to “write on tech” we salute you!Farewell guys
icedeocampo - Saturday, September 21, 2024 - link
I've been with you since day 1 - 1997.I've always enjoyed articles - the benchmarks - particularly the ones the nvidia tnt2 vs 3dfx voodoo 2.
Thank you for everything.
BrianC015 - Monday, September 23, 2024 - link
Best of luck in whatever the future holds for you!jb14 - Monday, September 23, 2024 - link
Very sad to read - my thanks for all the fascinating articles and reviews over all those years. Best of luck with all future paths of the team.rallyhard - Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - link
Farewell to my favorite website everChad - Thursday, September 26, 2024 - link
I can't even put into words what this site has meant to me for most of my life. You will be missed.Rod_Serling_Lives - Friday, September 27, 2024 - link
Thank you for all of your work. May the future be bright for all of you.Shiva.kv - Saturday, September 28, 2024 - link
Farewell! Anandtech team, till we meet again!MadEyeMoody - Monday, September 30, 2024 - link
I remember when AnandTech was the first site I'd visit as soon as I got online, back when the internet was still a luxury in my part of the world. I loved their in-depth reviews of microprocessor and GPU architecture. AnandTech was truly ahead of its time.