Comment by ethbr1

Kudos from my 2003 self, when Anandtech helped me build my first PC for university.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1094

Uni had fiber to the dorm room, so I was interested in maximizing available bandwidth through the rest of the system. Which in P4 / PCI days wasn't trivial!

Ironically enough, I still have that motherboard downstairs in a backup system, humming away... with a Pentium M via adapter. :)

Couldn't bring myself to put it out to pasture, and thought it was an interesting inflection point as "the last of the Netburst" era.

Interestingly enough, one of my favorite uni classes was on microprocessor design, taught by someone who apparently taught Anand at NC (Tom Conte).

RIP. But better to call it quits when they're playing the send-off music.