PC Building is a creative exercise

So late last year, shortly after my previous post , I talked myself into upgrading my PC a second time. This was prompted by the the fact the an Intel CPU, the i5-14600K, was on sale for about $170. The price had been falling for some time (and has now rebounded over $300 !). This generation of Intel CPUs had been plagued by oxidation and degradation which led to an early demise. These apparent…