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This was hard to read. I felt like the content was a little repetitive - maybe for SEO purposes? And full of over the top superlatives, mostly focused on the pe
by SmellTheGlove 5y ago
This was hard to read. I felt like the content was a little repetitive - maybe for SEO purposes? And full of over the top superlatives, mostly focused on the performance per dollar, and mostly ignoring the increased costs of motherboards (DDR5 aside) over the prior generation or the current generation of the competitor's product. [0] Not to mention focusing on an OS that basically no one uses right now.
I'm sorry but it reads more like an ad. And just because it often needs to be said, I have no brand loyalty here, and mostly think brand loyalty in this space is kind of dumb.
[0]: An example:
```Given its more amenable $409 price tag, it is quite shocking to see the Core i7-12700K deliver such a stunning blow to the $549 Ryzen 9 5900X in threaded work, highlighting the advantages of the x86 hybrid architecture.```
I'd love to save $140 and get better performance, but where am I getting a motherboard that doesn't eat up most of that savings? Maybe it exists, but it's not mentioned. That's fine, it's a CPU review, but then leave the dollar figures out of it if they aren't complete.
- systemvoltage 5y agoTomsHardware has been doing this ever since I remember getting on the internet.
- SmellTheGlove 5y agoTrue. This made me remember that I complained about the same thing when I founded and ran a competitor site in the late 90s/early 2000s. Of course, tomshardware is still around and I can’t even find mine on archive.org!
- jeffbee 5y agoThe writing really is offensive, but at least it's all on a single page instead of spread across 75 pages like Anandtech.
- zitterbewegung 5y agoThose are for ad impressions and they do a much better job testing and being neutral
- polshaw 5y agoSimply click "print this article" at the bottom to get Anandtech articles on a single page.
- Brave-Steak 5y agoFunny, I prefer it being spread across 20 pages because then I can jump between the parts that interest me when they interest me, instead of having to load and scroll through the whole thing. It also affects how much detail they can put into the whole page vs individual pages.
- tagrun 5y agoThe motherboard price situation was similar when Zen 3 CPUs came out. In a few more months, B- and H- series motherboards should come out with more reasonable prices. At the moment, if you're living a US city with a Microcenter, you can apparently get Asus Z690M-Plus Prime DDR4 for $170 if you buy it together with a CPU.