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I'm a huge fan of 11-year-old CPUs. 2013 was the last year AMD released processors without the PSP. Not fit for every task, but for most general computing it's indistinguishable from the latest hardware. I like having a computer where everything is accessible. 2013 was also the last year NVIDIA released GPUs without signed firmware.

> The slowest things are ...

and code using C++ templates and new C++1x/2x features. And compilation in general because code base grows over time.

AV1 really consumes CPU but x265 and VP9 are easy on the CPU with software decoding.

A shot in the dark - i5-3570K? This is the one I use!

1680v2 and before that 4930k