Need advice and comments

[Soulkeeper]

Recently I have been hating computers
i've been using computers for years building/gaming/overclocking them, but they are just too expensive and things keep breaking
i'm beginning to doubt whether i should own any computer parts anymore
I just spend over 900 bucks on parts (many of which don't work for me right now)

here is what i own right now:

asus A7V (KT133 socket A) motherboard
fic sd11 (amd 751 slot A)

600mhz slot A K75
1700+ week 52 T-bred b
2400+ week 44 T-bred b

128mb pc-100
128mb pc-133
256mb pc-133
512mb pc-133

80gb western digital 7200rpm 8mb cache
20gb maxtor 7200rpm
20gb maxtor 7200rpm
14gb maxtor 5400rpm
13gb quantum 7200rpm

voodoo 5 5500 64mb
Asus Geforce4 ti4200 128mb (clocked higher than TI4400)

couple 300watt cheap psu's
480 watt antec true blue psu

slk-800 heatsink
few good fans

sound blaster live! 5.1
old isa sound blaster card

few nic cards

promise raid card

50x asus cdrom drive
8x cdrw drive

P4 1.8ghz laptop
256mb pc-2100
40gb 4200rpm toshiba drive


Posting problems now (will edit in a few minutes)

Ok here are the problems:

cdrw/dvd combo drive went out on my laptop
power cord broke on my laptop
the keyboard messed up
then the filesystem corrupted on my laptop
so basically my laptop is out of commision for now
I wish i had never payed 2.2k for this peice of junk!!!

my A7V motherboard won't support my 2400+
neither motherboard will support my GF4
the SD11 won't support the 512mb stick of mem
the SD11 won't support the western digital drive
the A7V isn't fully stable with 3 memory slots occupied unless i run them at pc-100 speeds
i've broken a 1700+, 1ghz T-bird, dvd drive, Geforce2 gts, 80gb maxtor amoung other things


So basically i can sell stuff or waste another 500 bucks getting a top of the line motherboard/memory
I'm just not happy with less than 1gb of the fastest memory anymore for some odd reason


what would you do ???

 

[squirrel dog]

I would sell off and rebuild a screamer.But keep in mind you can do most things with a pencil and a paper notebook than you can do on a pc(most people).You might consider buying a Dell or Compac,they come configed and would be less likely to frustrate.With the cpu speeds of new pc's I see no need to o/c anymore,for ME anyway.You could donate your pc stuff to a local school or whatever and take the tax write off.

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah i'm highly against buying preconfigured computers caugh caugh