Only a city block? Back in my day, the US government came in and shot up and set fire to colonies, women and children included, just because they wanted to "get paid" and "work only eight hours a day". Entitled kids that want to go and buy from whatever store they want, what's so bad about the company store? ^^/s

8 physical cores isn't enough, I need at least 12.

> Why pay bleeding edge prices when everything is going to be "obsolete" in a couple months?

Warranty and to get the best performance now. I don't buy drives or storage used, already been burnt on storage by buying off Reddit. Like, this is why I'm waiting, I really do need the extra cores.

At least unlike the 90s, our PC hardware doesn't become irrelevant in 2 years. I'm only now starting to see problems using a Ryzen 3600, but I knew it was going to happen sooner or later, and it's only in specific scenarios. Waiting for the 7950X3D's benchmark before I upgrade and stick with a platform for a few years, but if the 14th gen Intel chips are the power efficiency powerhouse rumours say, I might just skip AMD altogether.

10 series? Try 9 or 7, the 970, outside of being 3.5GB+0.5GB, was exceptionally good performance for $329.

Remember when cheap boards were like $50 and the more expensive overclocker boards were $130? I remember the Z97 Anniversary, great board, $99.

Now, let's say I want to build a computer with the new 13th gen CPUs...

My cat definitely talks to me in the cat language, but that's because he knows I can actually hear him and will pay attention if he says something. Usually, when he really wants something, he meows though.

Yeah, instead of being a power of 2, he had 24GB sticks. It's weird.