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you don't need a housefire to reach 5GHz with Intel's cores, just a moderately competent cooler. I bet that part will have a double-digit TDP.
...yet barely more expensive than yesteryear's 4GHz quad-cores. Thanks, AMD!
It'll get much more than that from clock speed difference alone (I'd expect it to sustain >4.4GHz under realistic non-AVX all-core loads), not even counting the IPC advantage over Ryzen. Then again, it's more expensive than a 12-core 'ripper.
All in all, jews gonna jew, dumb goys gonna pay. This shekel-squeezing shitshow has been happening ever since the first Pentium was a thing, and probably even earlier.

PC's where stupid expensive until the early 90s when the price for a very avg machine dropped to about 1500-3k so similar to what we have now

Laptops were stupid expensive in the early 00's too, saw a advert for a Inspirion 4100 with the proof of sale from 2001: 5800 guilders back then, or 3050$ in today's money, and that for a middle of the line Pentium III model with XGA screen!

apparently the Precision M40 I have was even more expensive at around 10k guilders

Mmm tell me about it.
Pc home market is shrinking as well mobiles even own most of the gaming media and general application use since nobody cbf putting their phones down to turn use a pc anymore
That Said even pc tech is slowing we have reached the logical ceiling of what current 7-1nm silicone can do and amd went mcm early with CPUs next step will be gpus and now with rtx its gonna be a fun couple of years.
Cbf buying new pc every year again tho

Depends on what you mean by "PC". If it was 32-bit (Mac, Amiga) or a high-end 16-bit (386), you could easily blow $2k-$8k on a complete system, but many 8-bit (C64, TRS80) and some 16-bit platforms could easily be had for $50-$500 from the 80s into the early 90s.

Aside from the extremely stagnant nature of many lower-end platforms (the Apple IIe and C64 were both in continuous production and active support for over a decade), this was largely due to the fact that an interlaced SDTV's composite/RF input, simple audiocassette/floppy storage, and sometimes even an electric typewriter for a keyboard/printer in the early days, could be used as PC accessories.

Once a dedicated high-res p-scan PC monitor and dedicated HDD became mandatory in the mid-90s, the price floor catapulted north of $1k until the advent of eMachines/Gateway/etc. in the late-90s, and didn't truly drop until netbook/nettops hit the market in the mid-00s.

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I swear, hipsters are going to start defending NetBurst and Itanium some day.

Do you have any argument, anyway?

NetBurst and Itanium didn't even have niche use cases. They were inferior in every way.

Bulldozer was a turd, no doubt, but Piledriver had a few niche uses where it was a very good value, like compiling tons of software, rendering, transcoding video. You definitely got what you paid for, and single thread sucked, but at least it tried to offer something unique for the price.

NetBurst was just "we 10ghz in 5 years" and Itanium is just another "Intel can't make a successful product besides an x86 CPU" situation.