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HardOCP Is Getting 'Mothballed' As Kyle Bennett Accepts Job At Intel (hardocp.com)
Slashdot reader grasshoppa writes: Kyle Bennett, long-time owner/operator of one of the last independent review sites, HardOCP, announced that effective April 1st he will be leaving it behind to start a new career at Intel. "Effective April 1, 2019 I will be taking on the position of Director of Enthusiast Engagement for Intel's Technology Leadership Marketing group," Bennett writes. "Intel wants to reconnect with the top of the high-performance consumer pyramid which contains hardware enthusiasts, overclockers, gamers, and content creators. This is the part of our community that has great influence through word of mouth and online engagement. I'll be focusing on helping Intel get back in touch with this audience and re-establishing a voice and dialog on where the company is going with its future technologies. If you are reading this, you are very likely already part of this group."
He goes on to say that he does not want to sell HardOCP or HardForum and see those properties turned into something that he would not be proud of. Instead, "HardOCP will be 'mothballed,'" he writes. "It will no longer publish news, editorial, or hardware review content. [...] HardForum.com will be sold to a company that I have done business with for years, one that I can trust to run it in the way you are familiar with. HardForum will be demonetized and all advertising and commission links removed. Simply put, HardForum will not make money in any way..."
You can read Bennett's full statement here.
He goes on to say that he does not want to sell HardOCP or HardForum and see those properties turned into something that he would not be proud of. Instead, "HardOCP will be 'mothballed,'" he writes. "It will no longer publish news, editorial, or hardware review content. [...] HardForum.com will be sold to a company that I have done business with for years, one that I can trust to run it in the way you are familiar with. HardForum will be demonetized and all advertising and commission links removed. Simply put, HardForum will not make money in any way..."
You can read Bennett's full statement here.
Wow, he's sure got the corporate marketroid-douchebag speak down pat.
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Maybe he can get them to stop the confusing mess of which features are enabled and disabled across the lines of chips. I hate having to dig through the Intel Ark to find out which used sku's have ECC memory support, which ones have IOMMU support, which ones have vPro, which ones have AES-NI, etc. Especially galling is the ECC support, as it's enabled and disabled seemingly at random throughout the consumer space (where AMD has it across the board.)
Windows has detected an undetectable error.
This decision shows a lot of integrity on his part. A "good news" story even for users of that site.
The dude could have been content being a hero in the enthusiast/IT community. He could have been remembered long after he was gone.
Now... he's killing the baby for a cash payout. He'll be remembered for this.
But who cares... it's all about the big bucks.
Another consultant who stuck it out.
"We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx..."
Your story is full of shit. Kyle's an asshole, true, but he's a fair one.
You probably posted horse porn and were a dick when called out for your idiocy. That's the only way I've seen folks get a permaban.
Except pound for pound the Intel still out performs it in all the tasks requested by that target hardware enthusiast audience. The problem is those enthusiasts have shit tons of money now so the economic advantage that AMD continues to try and hold doesn't cut it anymore. People are willing to pay the premium for a higher performing product. Please tell me the percentage of Ryzen and Threadrippers that are going into the Data Center these days? What kind of percentage is going into the AI market compared to Nvidia? AMD continues to try and compete and choose to put out sub-par products that don't perform well in real world applications to undercut Intel on price. Games do matter and the economic advantage of a 10-20% price cut doesn't matter when the performance is king.
What is sub par? The 5-10% IPC ryzen is behind intel? That is due to change in july, and Intel will be behind again like in 2003. Then will you still say intel is better? Because OP is talking about zen 2, and the demoed low clock speed vs dual proc intel system. at almost half the power. Remember in gaming IPC matters, more so on the shitty single threaded games that are a decade or so behind in the times. What dirty tricks will intel resort to this time? Remember ryzen launch? All the FUD intel spread because they realized they were going to get surpassed in a year or so unless they could get their broken 10nm to work its been 3 years since I was promised a 10nm chip from intel. Then intel and their "AMD is just gluing chips together! Its not real cpu!!!" with their next cpu "glued together" as they put it. Intel hasn't innovated in 20 years, AMD has and Intel has copied. They tried to with IA64, well where did those end up?
I find that the best tech "news" and reviews come from people that own the hardware on IRC. You can often get them to perform tests of your liking also. That's how we figured out the Zen NUMA latency linux issue a year after launch.
Wonder if the date is important at all?
Looks like he's going for an officially-sponsored shilling position with Intel.
Most ryzen boards. You can easily see this with Linux. And I've never seen a 970/990 board without it either.
Depends on your workload. I'm atypical but my desktop workload is quite a few VMs for development, video editing, and standard desktop use (browsers and terminals). The problem is, "true gamers" aren't ever CPU bound in games, so that 5-10% IPC advantage doesn't matter in practice. So if you want to spend all that money on a super fast CPU for single-threaded performance it is wasted on gamers. The only time they aren't CPU bound is running games at 1080p at absurd refresh rates that most monitors cannot even display. There is only a small, specific set of scenarios where Intel is faster than AMD in practice for gamers.
And with that said, Ryzen SYSTEMS are far less expensive, and have ECC support (if you care). The motherboards are less expensive and the CPU are less expensive, and their motherboard chipsets/sockets last far longer than Intel, who seem to like to change the socket every generation.
This is an obvious sign that Intel took this market for granted and are realizing AMD is making serious inroads.
I don't really have a brand affinity, I used Intel CPU for years and they were great, but when I built my last system, for me, Ryzen was a CLEAR winner given my requirements. Which again, I totally agree, is not your normal, standard use case.
I love reading the comments about these sites. So far I've seen half a dozen posts that say something to the effect of "He's been shilling for Intel for years, might as well make it official" then of course you come across the person who says he must be an AMD shill. What that tells me is they probably post pretty balanced reviews if they've managed to piss off both camps.
Permabanned me for talking about using ad-block in a news article about ad-block.
I'm on various channels on freenode, and criten. The rest are all semi private nets so cant divulge much into that. none of the channels I frequent are really "tech" channels. but the majority of people on IRC are real nerds and would never turn down a chance to talk about the hardware they own or possibly want to own.
https://www.newegg.com/Product...
From the first google result for "amd ryzen motherboard ecc."