Dettweiler

I want to say late 2000’s to early 2010’s was when my friends and I all built our own PCs for about $500.

I recall it being a period of at least 10 years. A prior generation GPU would run about $150-200. The CPU/Mobo was the most expensive part

I miss the days when $500 could build a “console killer”

That looks like the mini SATA connection for my external HDD