Morning Tech Bits [Aug 30, 2024, 11:13 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
- End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell. End of an era. Thanks Russell.
- This Windows Update Boosts Gaming FPS by 30%- - Jarrod's Tech (video). Thanks RedEye9.
- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, under growing pressure, addresses company’s ‘difficult few weeks’ - oregonlive.com.
- Data Centers Face Seven-Year Wait for Dominion Power Hookups - Yahoo! Finance. Thanks The Flying Penguin.
- Meta Platforms strikes geothermal energy deal to power US data centers. Thanks Slashdot.
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I'll never forget the most important Anandtech review for me.
I was looking to get my first SSD and they reviewed a Samsung SSD 840 Pro
That was over 10 years ago, I still use the same drive to this day.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/6328/samsung-ssd-840-pro-256gb-review
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I was looking to get my first SSD and they reviewed a Samsung SSD 840 Pro
The performance and power characteristics of Samsung's SSD 840 Pro are as close to perfect as we've seen from any drive this generation. In all but a handful of benchmarks, the 840 Pro is the fastest consumer SSD we've ever tested.I was sold, even after their review sample, and its replacement, bricked. *
That was over 10 years ago, I still use the same drive to this day.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/6328/samsung-ssd-840-pro-256gb-review
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after running through our client test suite and preparing the drive for a run through our enterprise suite, our pre-production sample died. This isn't the first time we've had an SSD die during our test process, pretty much every company has seen a failure during one of our reviews, but despite Samsung's excellent track record even it isn't immune from early issues. These drives are a few weeks away from retail and Samsung will be getting our sample back this week to figure out what went wrong.
Update: My replacement 840 Pro also died, I have shipped both drives back to Samsung and are waiting for their analysis of the failures.
Update 2: It looks like this may have been a firmware issue. Retail drives should ship with fixed firmware.
Xeth Nyrrow wrote on Aug 31, 2024, 00:06:
AnandTech...wow, a legend dies. Interesting that they don't say why they are shuttering, though I'm sure they will blame sensationalist media as they talk about a bit. After Anand stepped down, I felt that the site became a lot less useful. I don't want to say they messed up after he left but the site is closing down so apparently something didn't go right.
Re:Intel - How the hell does Pat "Kicking" Gelsinger still have a job? Just from the drop in stock value alone they should be calling for his head.
closest we'll probably get is one of their former editors ian cutress talking about it on youtube.
AnandTech...wow, a legend dies. Interesting that they don't say why they are shuttering, though I'm sure they will blame sensationalist media as they talk about a bit. After Anand stepped down, I felt that the site became a lot less useful. I don't want to say they messed up after he left but the site is closing down so apparently something didn't go right.
Re:Intel - How the hell does Pat "Kicking" Gelsinger still have a job? Just from the drop in stock value alone they should be calling for his head.
Re:Intel - How the hell does Pat "Kicking" Gelsinger still have a job? Just from the drop in stock value alone they should be calling for his head.
RedEye9 wrote on Aug 30, 2024, 15:11:Madoc Owain wrote on Aug 30, 2024, 14:56:This, a million , billion times this.
I don't want to watch YouTube videos hoping someone gets to a point someday
gamersnexus at least keeps things to the point even if he gets a bit long winded on things i have no interest in, but that's more me than him. and he's good enough to chop up the videos into titled chapters. so if we're gonna support anybody i'd suggest GN.
Madoc Owain wrote on Aug 30, 2024, 14:56:A lot of articles are getting just as bad. Some articles could be a few paragraphs, but I guess longer articles can fit more ads. With the SponsorBlock addon, most long YouTube videos will have highlight flag that skips the BS and takes you to the point.
I don't want to watch YouTube videos hoping someone gets to a point someday, I like to skim and that's my superpower. Game over man, game over!!
"You can either want something to be true, or you can want the truth. Pick one." - Mr. Diety
AnandTech closing is sad news. I remember when the site was on Geocities, IIRC.
RedEye9 wrote on Aug 30, 2024, 15:11:Ask, and ye shall receive.Madoc Owain wrote on Aug 30, 2024, 14:56:This, a million , billion times this.
I don't want to watch YouTube videos hoping someone gets to a point someday
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
Madoc Owain wrote on Aug 30, 2024, 14:56:This, a million , billion times this.
I don't want to watch YouTube videos hoping someone gets to a point someday
News like this about AnandTech make me wish Blue had a trust set up to keep BN running for generations after he retires.
I should be coding.
First Maximum PC, now Anandtech?! I don't want to watch YouTube videos hoping someone gets to a point someday, I like to skim and that's my superpower. Game over man, game over!!
I started reading Anandtech in the late 90s. In the days before smartphones, I would print CPU reviews on my HP5 Laserjet, and read them on the bus for my hour commute (did the same with Blues). Used to be a daily destination, but in the past several years I would only visit them for major launches. Very sad. They were the best.
These days I listen to Tech Jesus every so often while doing chores to keep up with tech news.
These days I listen to Tech Jesus every so often while doing chores to keep up with tech news.
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
Well, that's a bummer. Anandtech was always the first link I went to whenever Blue posted a wall of reviews.
Shame to see AnandTech go. Another victory for the assorted YouTube clowns *sigh* .
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The Flying Penguin wrote on Aug 30, 2024, 12:00:phinn wrote on Aug 30, 2024, 11:39:
24H2 was a surprising little bump even on my aging 5800X (~4 years old), a tested a couple things before updating and it's about +10% gaming performance with the 23H2 interim patch. Not sure who to blame, MS, AMD, Intel, all of the above, but glad for the improvement. Looking forward to Zen 5 / Arrow Lake comparisons this fall now that things are dialed in.
Interesting. Were you running as a limited user or admin? I'm still confused if this patch only helps if you don't run as admin, or am I mixing this up with another issue?
I was wondering if there would be much uplift on Zen3. Might be worth upgrading my 5800X3D gaming system to Win11 (after imaging it first!) to see if I get any improvement, but I am running as an admin on that PC.
Yes the default regular user account never changed it to anything else. A decent performance uplift for Zen 3, from what I read even small bumps for Zen 1/2. The biggest increases are Zen 3/4 which makes sense as brand prediction has a larger impact there. For 5800X3D I would definitely put the latest update on it's a no brainer increase for gaming fps, but if you're already logging in as admin don't think there is much difference.
Burrito of Peace wrote on Aug 30, 2024, 11:50:I saw this video pop up on YouTube AnandTech has Closed and said to myself "that's gotta be trollbait for the clicks", not knowing who TechTechPotato was.
Damn sad to read about AnandTech. It will be missed.
I look forward to the future where all reviews and videos are done by the maker of the product, bypassing the middleman.
Crushed to hear about AnandTech, but grateful for all of the consistently high quality work they did over so many years.
phinn wrote on Aug 30, 2024, 11:39:
24H2 was a surprising little bump even on my aging 5800X (~4 years old), a tested a couple things before updating and it's about +10% gaming performance with the 23H2 interim patch. Not sure who to blame, MS, AMD, Intel, all of the above, but glad for the improvement. Looking forward to Zen 5 / Arrow Lake comparisons this fall now that things are dialed in.
Interesting. Were you running as a limited user or admin? I'm still confused if this patch only helps if you don't run as admin, or am I mixing this up with another issue?
I was wondering if there would be much uplift on Zen3. Might be worth upgrading my 5800X3D gaming system to Win11 (after imaging it first!) to see if I get any improvement, but I am running as an admin on that PC.
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Damn sad to read about AnandTech. It will be missed.
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24H2 was a surprising little bump even on my aging 5800X (~4 years old), a tested a couple things before updating and it's about +10% gaming performance with the 23H2 interim patch. Not sure who to blame, MS, AMD, Intel, all of the above, but glad for the improvement. Looking forward to Zen 5 / Arrow Lake comparisons this fall now that things are dialed in.
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