The Extreme Tech Depreciation: Testing 20 Years of Intel CPUs (Then vs. Now)

What happens when you dump 20 years of CPU history onto a single test bench? Today, we are sorting, categorizing, and figuring out how to test 10 completely random processors. We are exploring the extreme depreciation of hardware—stretching from 2005-era Intel Pentium 4s to a massive enterprise server chip that retailed for $1,200 at launch but is worth pocket change today. We break them down into their physical motherboard sockets, analyze the "Then vs. Now" price collapses, expose why "LGA 1151" is a massive trap for beginners, and figure out exactly what hardware we need to get these running. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and drop a comment below telling me which processor I should build a full benchmark video on first!