>15 years ago >overclockers bought cheap processors and

>>59269543
Intel found out about all the fun people had overclocking.
So they decided that it had to be a premium price point experience.

when jews started selling "unlocked" CPUs for a premium.

>>59269543
15 years ago, I was 20 years old and making $8 an hour living on my own.

Now I am 35 years old and making 100k a year living with my wife.

My scotch collection costs more than my computer.

I'm sorry you're poor anon, but seriously it's no big deal.

Also, adjusted for inflation cpus are pretty cheap now.

>>59269751
This

>>59269543
I agree, it was a stupid business practice, I'm glad they got rid of it

>>59269648
theres nothing fun in it anymore. its just a button in a windows app or uefi now.

>>59269751
Good thing AMD has saved us all

>>59269805
>slurp slurp slurp

>decide to buy a new PC
>old one is core 2 quad
>accidentally stumble upon libreboot
>read the faq


FUCK

so lads, how expensive would it be to start making opensource processors?

>>59269543
Talk for yourself, bitch, I run a 775 mod homeserver with a OCds as fuck cheap chink xeon and a 3570k @ 5ghz that is still godlike after 4-5 years