They said watercooling was a bad idea. They said there's no way it would last more than 2 years even with extensive maintenance. That was 8 years ago

Air cooling is a conspiracy by gpu companies to get people to burn out their gpus earlier so they'll buy a new graphics card sooner (or something like that)

And yes: that's 8 sticks of ram. I built this during the glorious but short-lived time in my life where I had extra money to play with.