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  • jg.millirem
    But that's not all….
    …folks. 70 USD bucks a year is way too much for yet another subscription service when we’re all being hammered with them everyday. 10 or 20 tops.
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  • derekullo
    "To that end, subscribers will also get access to Bench, which is the most up-to-date and comprehensive benchmarking database available. We're updating our process to list new products and will continue supporting Bench with timely updates."

    Bench is amazing!
    Very insightful!
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  • Air2004
    As you (TomsHardware) place more content behind a paywall, readership will drop off.... hope the pay-off is worth it
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  • JeffreyP55
    Admin said:
    Tom's Hardware Premium is now out of beta. Get access to expert-level analysis, roadmaps, and unlock our cutting-edge performance analyzer, Bench.

    Tom's Hardware Premium is now out of beta — access expert-level analysis, hardware roadmaps and unlock the Bench database : Read more
    Lost me.
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  • bit_user
    I'm reluctant to mention this in the context of the Premium service, because it's something that I'd really want to be able to cite in forums etc., if you did it. A paywall would render that virtually impossible. But...

    Something I've always wanted to see is an investigation of how Intel's E-cores have evolved. When Alder Lake launched, there was a great amount of focus on E-cores, with various people benchmarking them against the P-cores and seeing how they affected workload scalability. Anandtech really set the gold standard, here:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20240902195844/https://www.anandtech.com/show/17047/the-intel-12th-gen-core-i912900k-review-hybrid-performance-brings-hybrid-complexity/
    Then, when Raptor Lake launched, it seemed like everyone had moved on and no reviewers I saw bothered to check out how the L2 cache & ring bus improvements affected the E-cores. In subsequent Intel CPU launches, the trend of taking the E-cores for granted continued. Every now and then, I'll see someone posting single-thread performance numbers on E- vs. P-cores, but not on proper MT workloads and definitely not looking at things like performance vs. power. Same goes for AMD's C-cores.

    I feel like this is in the vein of the Premium articles' in-depth analysis, but it's of limited use to me if all I can do is cite a paywalled article.


    Another item on my wish list would be to revisit the topic of LPDDR6, which I thought wasn't covered on here in sufficient depth, when JEDEC's announcement rolled out.
    https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/jedec-publishes-first-lpddr6-standard-new-interface-promises-double-the-effective-bandwidth-of-current-genIt'd be great to see some deeper coverage of that standard, maybe examining how it fits the trends in LPDDR memories over recent generations, not to mention how it compares vs what's been happening in DDR and GDDR land.

    I get the sense that LPDDR is a bit of a trail blazer, in some ways, with features it adopts (e.g. subchannels) later being adopted by other memory standard tracks. It's been really interesting to see its uptake in server & datacenter applications (e.g. Nvidia's Grace or Intel's new Crescent Island).


    Lastly, is there some sort of suggestion box or request line, where we can offer such ideas?
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  • bit_user
    On the topic of subscription services and paywalls, I want to mention that I like Phoronix' approach of offering ad-free browsing + single-page viewing, but with no content restrictions for non-subscribers.

    Another potential value-add I've seen is how TechPowerUp offers image hosting to its forum users. I'm actually not sure if that's a subscription feature, but it seems like it could be, since their forum software (also XenForo) knows who is a patreon subscriber.

    One thing I don't like about Phoronix is the inability to embed their articles' images in posts I make on other sites. IMO, it's like (nearly) free advertising for their site.
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  • criticaloftom
    now they like all the news artical based websites with pop ups blocking veiwing toms gets to have it's windows closed and it's stories ignored too. considering the ai generated crap that's being spun there is no loss to feel here.
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  • hotaru251
    third time stating this feedback: Put a Premium icon to let non premium users not click sidebar stories they cant read and waste their time.
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  • bit_user
    hotaru251 said:
    third time stating this feedback: Put a Premium icon to let non premium users not click sidebar stories they cant read and waste their time.
    Agreed. There's a label that shows in the panels, but not the in newsfeed.
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  • Shiznizzle
    jg.millirem said:
    …folks. 70 USD bucks a year is way too much for yet another subscription service when we’re all being hammered with them everyday. 10 or 20 tops.
    The ability to DL clips from youtube was nice when it worked. Been doing that for decades now. It is nice.

    But i am not paying google more than it costs, per month, for a Netflix subscription in order not to see ads, which i dont see anyway as i have aggressive ad blocking tech, as well as to DL clips. I miss not being able to DL clips but i am not payign them that kind of money every single month. I am also not willing to be brainwashed by senseless ads every 2 min.

    Google knows the second they enforce a no adblocking stance they will lose %95 of their userbase in less than 10 minutes. So they choose to use the data those users provide instead.

    Google is swimming in money so they can afford to lose money on youtube.
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