I was quite disappointed to discover this recently. I went out and bought a new machine; I looked at all the specs, bought a sensible machine, put it together.

I was quite disappointed to discover this recently. I went out and bought a new machine; I looked at all the specs, bought a sensible machine, put it together. It ran horribly. I looked everywhere... and finally checked Tom's Hardware. My processor, which had cost me $300 at the beginning of 2012, outperformed the one that I'd just bought for $200. This was... pretty much unthinkable to me. Every other two-year gap in my life was incredible; Even cheap machines were way better than their counterparts. Now I've wasted a bunch of money, a bunch of time, and gotten a worse machine.