• corroded@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This is kind of a shit article. Most of these are just old hardware that eventually had modern improvements, not “trends.”

    A “trend” is cold cathode black lights inside the case, not a silly naming scheme for CPU revisions.

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      3 months ago

      Ya acrylic side cases where a trend, maybe 3D monitors but everything else in there was just specific technology that has been replaced by better technology…

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        3 months ago

        The blower gpu fans were definitely a trend. I remember buying third party coolers and strapping 120mm fans onto them with zip ties.

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          3 months ago

          Blower fans had a technical reason to exist that isn’t very relevant anymore.

          It used to be to keep the card profile low so you could have other PCI card slots populated. However these days everything including Wifi can be found pre populated on the motherboard. It is rare you put in any additional PCI cards in modern personal systems.