sure, if you have a modern system with plenty of ram and ssd, then cpu will still be a bottleneck. what i am saying is that if given a choice of a brand new cp

sure, if you have a modern system with plenty of ram and ssd, then cpu will still be a bottleneck. what i am saying is that if given a choice of a brand new cpu with 8gb ram and a hard drive (common specs for 10 years ago) or a 10 year old cpu with 16gb ram and an ssd, then i would definitely take the 10 year old cpu. case in point, i recently bought this super cheap dell laptop, which has a really nice brand new cpu (i5-1135G7) but only 8gb ram and a crappy ssd. i will upgrade those things when i have the time, but right now if i am running too many things it will start swapping out, and that is far worse than maxing out the cpu.