Reply 80 of 174, by d1stortion
wrote:I know that in the Wiki also experience with old hardware should be presented. Still I would like to see often a better description for which specific cases this experience is true. Currently a lot of facts are presented as general rules which is mostly not true. Some paragraphs might be as well from marketing journals instead of personal experience reports. Please take a bit more care and specifically limit facts to the corresponding hardware config or operating system.
Just to give an example, currently for the mainboards the general recommendation is to use the fastest CPU possible. I don't think this is helpful for readers as it should be more diversified e.g. by looking at different fictious user profiles.
Just to give an opposing example: When using socket 7 for DOS, plugging a P233MMX is a bad idea when playing games with iMuse sound system as it will not work anymore, while on a P166MMX it does.
I agree that most of the explanations need to be more complex, but I find your statements a bit contradicting too. For example, on the 3dfx article you remarked that I should have left out the TV from V3 3500 TV, because that wouldn't be of any concern for the (quite arbitrary) target group. What the particular reader wants is unknown to the author and that is part of the problem.
I think that one should either go for an as complete as possible hardware gallery type of thing with all facts and facettes imaginable, but that has the negative effect of a lot of text, which may put some people off. The other way to do it would be just to break it down into practical experiences with only minimal information that could be potentially seen as trivial. I personally find it hard to draw a line which information to include and which not, so everything in between those two is hard to pull off if one takes your criticism seriously.