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I only upgraded from my 2009 i7 (I forget the model) to last years i7 because the old motherboard died.

I kept upgrading GPU and seeing only 20-30% CPU use while gaming. It was fine.

Some changes to how we build these things would be nice.

The heavily integrated motherboard model should die. A PCI slot on my old board made the whole system flake.

Discrete components I can stack are more my dream design. If my old CPU had been a sealed unit of some kind with a physical connector to the GPU, power, and such, and I could have simply swapped out the faulty port expansion “module”, that would be slick.

But one PCI port flaking means I have to bail on an otherwise perfectly functional CPU, RAM, PSU, and cooling kit.