you seem that you know much of this tech stuff more than me, honestly i just dont know much about motherboards and the like but i do remember back in the day how much i wanted a pentium and yet i was stuck with a lower 486 chip and then a worthless amd compaq machine my first system was a packard bell 486 xs 33 mhz with i dunno 2 megabytes of ram or something like that but it had a cd-rom and that was a mediocre multimedia machine (funny that you dont hear about that word anymore huh) but despite of it being mediocre its speakers were quite good and i listened ton of music on it. by then the 486 dx chipset were released and my rig was already obsolete. i couldnt even play mortal kombat on it lol the best computers that i have ever own was an old i5-2400 and this one which is an i7 9 gen with double the ram and storage of previous computers. i plan this one to last me for awhile (knocks on wood) might change my 1660ti in the future when it cannot longer play new games at bare minimum settings ...and yeah sorry for the rambling