Personal computing discussed
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meerkt wrote:Hexus.net? HotHardware.com?
GrimDanfango wrote:So, erm, where did everyone go? I went to Anandtech for a while, but they barely seem to post PC hardware reviews any more, it's all deep-dive silicon manufacturing geekery, enterprise stuff, and mobile phone reviews. More recently, it seems like I can't even access the site from a central-american IP any more.
I can't put my finger on it exactly, but Tom's Hardware never quite feels right to me... there's reviews, but it somehow feels a bit surface-level and generic. Can't work out if they're just carefully dressing up corporate press releases with benchmarks or if there's genuine depth there...
Are there any lesser-known website gems out there that aren't "and now a word from our sponsors!"? Or has the Youtube "hyperactive dude mugging into the camera in every thumbnail" era fully taken over all of tech journalism?
BIF wrote:The old techreport knew how to build communities, the current one, I haven't visited the frontpage for years and sadly the forum is on life support, barely.It's funny, there's an article on the front page telling us how to build robust communities. I think there should be some demonstrable evidence that you know what you're talking about when you write an article like that.
Aphasia wrote:BIF wrote:The old techreport knew how to build communities, the current one, I haven't visited the frontpage for years and sadly the forum is on life support, barely.It's funny, there's an article on the front page telling us how to build robust communities. I think there should be some demonstrable evidence that you know what you're talking about when you write an article like that.
Freon wrote:Steve at Gamers Nexus is a bro, actually cares about the consumer. I don't care for the video format, but he seems to do solid testing.
Vrock wrote:Back when Celeron 300As ran at 450mhz. And Intel hated it.
Vrock wrote:Back when Celeron 300As ran at 450mhz. And Intel hated it.
Krogoth wrote:Yep. I remember.Vrock wrote:Back when Celeron 300As ran at 450mhz. And Intel hated it.
Mendocino Celerons were more of a happy accident. Intel was experimenting on trying to add on-die L2 cache. They were resulted, because they only able to cram 128KiB of it on 250nm node. Intel marketing branded them as "Celerons" while at time Slot 1 Pentium IIs had 512KiB on back of the module but it operated on back-side bus (1/2 of the CPU clockspeed) versus the full clockspeed that L2 cache enjoyed on Mendocino "Celeron". The "Celeron" could easily handle the same clockspeed as their Pentium II brethen (Same architecutre) and were faster as long as the data fit could within smaller L2 Cache pool.
In a way, Mendocino "Celeron" were kinda a proto-"Coppermine" Pentium III at least the Socket 370 version.
Captain Ned wrote:Vrock wrote:Back when Celeron 300As ran at 450mhz. And Intel hated it.
504 if you had an Abit BH6, which I did not. If you had the BP6 dual-socket, you'd understand Damage's comment about creamy smoothness.
Krogoth wrote:lamenting for the loss of 3Dfx.