[TaySan]

End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell

www.anandtech.com

It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I've ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word of computing hardware, today is AnandTech's final day of publication.

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. It's fittingly poetic, but it is also a testament to the fact that we've spent the last 27 years doing what we love, covering the chips that are the lifeblood of the computing industry.

A lot of things have changed in the last quarter-century – in 1997 NVIDIA had yet to even coin the term "GPU" – and we've been fortunate to watch the world of hardware continue to evolve over the time period. We've gone from boxy desktop computers and laptops that today we'd charitably classify as portable desktops, to pocket computers where even the cheapest budget device puts the fastest PC of 1997 to shame.

RIP They will be missed

 

[regawdless]

That's unfortunate, they did a good job.

 

[HE1NZ]

Never heard of them

 

[Bullet Club]

They were good. They started on Geocities, so they were around for a long time.

Future also own Tom's Hardware, so they've shut down one, kept the other.

 

[TaySan]

Never heard of them

Major hardware reviewer. They were like the Digital Foundry of hardware back in the day

 

[crumbs]

Unfortunate, but you could see this coming, content had been pretty light since Ian Cutress left a couple of years ago.

 

[Optimus]

So whose left in this space that we still like?

I don't follow it closely except when I'm ready to do a new PC build. Always loved a small set of sights who seemed to do all the best hardware benchmarks and comparisons.

 

[QuantumZebra]

Man AT was my go-to for reviews and benchmarks back in the day. RIP to the OG.

They were good. They started on Geocities, so they were around for a long time.

Future also own Tom's Hardware, so they've shut down one, kept the other.

Funny enough AnandTech was always the superior platform and site, IMO. Tom's was a bunch gift-wrapped BS.

 

[Zefah]

Damn... 27 years. I've been following them on and off since the early 2000s

 

[TaySan]

So whose left in this space that we still like?

I don't follow it closely except when I'm ready to do a new PC build. Always loved a small set of sights who seemed to do all the best hardware benchmarks and comparisons.

Toms Hardware is one that's still around. Hardware Unboxed on YouTube is another good one

 

[Joe T.]

So whose left in this space that we still like?

I don't follow it closely except when I'm ready to do a new PC build. Always loved a small set of sights who seemed to do all the best hardware benchmarks and comparisons.

A combination of Gamers Nexus, Hardware Unboxed, Wendel from Level1Techs (as an aside, their summaries of global headlines are also worth a watch/listen) and Frame Chasers usually does it for me. The latter is often a contradictory voice and has established himself as a necessity if only to provide some balance to an otherwise unified collection of reviewers. He's a little like the Quantum TV of the tech space for me in that regard.

There are others I still go to for deeper dives on certain topics like Gordon from PC World, Tech Yes City (more grounded in reality than most) or Techtesters (like the SSD reviews, not sure why she's been MIA for so long).