This is language I understand. Who needs a half-dozen 12v wires? Nobody does, make it one big ol’ 12v wire!
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Agreed.
Welcome back, by the way.
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From the release of MS DOS up to Windows 98, anybody could copy a Microsoft operating system, and almost everybody did. You could also copy the utilities and apps that came with the O/S.
In the 1990s, millions of people were using Microsoft products - and very few had paid for them.
Eventually Microsoft introduced increasingly sophisticated methods of copy protection - and that’s what the current hardware-locked product key is. It’s intended to stop you buying one copy of Windows, then installing it on the computers of everyone you know.
I think it’s super irritating, and it can cause real problems for system builders, but I understand why they did it.
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The prodigal son returns 
Im actually still using an am2+ socket mobo with the fx8350, pcie2.0 but that didn’t stop me from shoving an RTX 2060 in there anyway. Don’t look at me 
still a beastly processor but architecture is dated and can’t do a lot of modern tricks.
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