I miss the era of overclocking for easy performance gains. Pencil modding a Duron to an Athlon and increasing clocks by mounting a big fat copper heatsink and cranking vcore. You could save tons of money just by learning fun shit and having a modicum of technical ability. Now everything is dynamic clocks and power limits and it’s all so boring. My 5800X3D / 5090 absolutely tears ass out of the box but there’s no tweakability and I miss that shit.

The first boot of a computer during the era of jumpers for setting vcore was a tense experience. Will the magic smoke come out? Never did, but I always puckered up.