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Oh yeah, around that time when I was finally getting paid my first paycheck was spent on upgrading my CPU. Such a great time for performance gains.

I feel like we have it again now with the race between AMD/Intel, I really hope this generation brings about more competition.

ARM (for desktop/laptops) being a serious contender thanks to AWS Graviton and "Apple Silicon", Intel entering the dedicate GPU market (and finally improving their drivers/software), PCIE-5 drives going to be crazy fast (I'm sure there are going to be issues with the launch drives), DDR5 being great.. let's just hope prices go down (which they won't in the short term, I'm sure).

Same with Q6600 running on 3GHz also on P5Q.

Q6600 was my most longeve cpu, that system survived three graphic cards upgrades before giving way to a new build in 2022

yea, mine system on an ABIT IP35-pro lasted about 10 years. best investment ever.

I was using a Q9550 around 4 years ago to play modern games. Really an impressive processor for its time, I only stopped using it because I moved away and couldn't take a desktop with me.

The Pentium Pro was similar. I ran a dual PPro desktop for something like 5 years. It was a big initial investment, but over time really paid off.