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Remember when going over 60C was bad? Remember when we saw chips being permanently damaged from hitting temps in the 80C range and throttling?

Also the fact that we got into the 00s before we made chips that could shut themselves down before they literally let out smoke. Pentium 4s and Athlon 64s were the first! Everything else would literally burn itself!

Yeah this happened with CPUs too but: GPU generational gains. Yeah we were still figuring out how to build a GPU but those were good times.

Don't miss multi GPU though, great in theory but I don't think it ever worked without microstuttering, we just had to learn how to detect microstuttering.

Cheap motherboards. Holy shit yall, a $150 motherboard used to be high end. Hell the first GOOD SLI board was like $130 at launch. $300 was your absolute overhyped super duper expensive motherboard with bells, whistles, and UV reactive plastics. Current prices are big dum because signaling. Shit sucks.

Don't miss: Shitty power supplies. Or good power supplies that had a loud ass 80mm fan. PCP&C I'm looking at you.

Do miss: Quality PSUs available that actually matched the amount of current your computer would draw. Do you know how much computer it takes to draw 600W at the wall? Probably a heck of a lot more than you've got in your case. Bring me platinum rated 400W units.

Don't miss lack of idle power reduction. That used to be one of the first things you turned off too when you overclocked, because it usually made the system a lot less stable.

Of course some things never change. We all still wanna put a ton of lights in our computer for some dumb reason. I'm glad I grew out of that.

Finally, and this is still a negative trend, but GPU prices not being completely insane. In 2009 there was a huge price war between recenetly-renamed-AMD and nvidia and you could get their top end cards for $200 or so. This was just about the peak of the multi-GPU days so there was higher end but, the top end single GPU stuff was around $200. That being said, it wasn't very long ago at all that 500-600 got you the best of the best. I know inflation and all that but the card shortage suckered everyone into overpaying for GPUs and it's not gonna go back to normal until people stop buying overpriced GPUs.


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