Wow.... talk about me being out of touch.... HardOCP no longer

David · Post by **David** » Wed Sep 18, 2019 3:58 pm

Wow...

I had been off forums for a while, but was looking into starting a new build. Evidently Kyle has moved to greener pastures at Intel. The Hardforum is still open.

Post by **Philip** » Wed Sep 18, 2019 7:18 pm

Interesting, I didn't know either. His new position, "Director of Enthusiast Engagement" at Intel has to be a two-way voice for both Intel and the enthusiast community at the same time.. organizing community events and such. I don't know why he can't simply delegate most HardOCP functions to the other editors and enthusiasts to run the reviews themselves, but at least the forums are going to remain up and running.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Thu Sep 19, 2019 2:30 am

Where does this leave Brent? Didn't he write for them?

Post by **Philip** » Thu Sep 19, 2019 8:10 am

Seems Brent, together with a few other editors from HardOCP started publishing reviews at a brand new site, "The FPS Review" .. thefpsreview.com
His last post at HardOCP: https://hardforum.com/threads/goodbye-h ... 1044130268
He posts on Twitter @Brent_Justice

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Sep 19, 2019 10:24 am

Man, I hadn't logged into those forums in many many years.

David · Post by **David** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:21 pm

HardOCP was my go to site for system setups. Then again, I had been out of the hobby for some time..

I concur with you, Philip. It would seem logical to hand off the day to day to the supporting contributors.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:26 pm

Yeah when I was building custom gaming PCs (way back years ago) it was one of the resources I used.
It did have a "network" section which I started hanging out at, but...had a few enterprise guys hanging out there that looked down their nose at you if you didn't work with $10,000 plus Cisco iron....couldn't talk much SMB network equipment there.

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:18 pm

All that happened over a month ago. I have used that site in the past, but recently I asked a couple of questions and the responses seemed to be a little weak. I didn't get the response I was expecting. I feel as if some of the intensity is gone.

Htos1 · Post by **Htos1** » Sun Sep 22, 2019 1:38 am

I'm still here! The transition from DSL was awful! Big salute to you guys, STILL here since '9X! Man, what I wouldn't give......

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Sep 26, 2019 6:33 am

Pretty much teh review side of things is at https://www.thefpsreview.com/ I like Hard's style of reviews so glad they kept together.

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Sat Sep 28, 2019 10:28 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:Pretty much teh review side of things is at https://www.thefpsreview.com/ I like Hard's style of reviews so glad they kept together.

Thanks for that link. New to me.

On top of HardOCP I've found that "How to GeeK' has lost some of it's luster and not as interesting as it use to be. TechSpot, which I think was a recommendation from YeOlde has reasonably good articles but like HTG, they seem to be turning into sites that want to cater to everyone and have lost a little bit of their niche.

vc_wannabe · Post by **vc_wannabe** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 10:15 am

Happened to me too, when I went to build my last system, I was a bit sad to see that one of my sources was no more.