Help!! Stuck in an "Aspie Loop"! !

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For the last few days, every spare moment has been wasted in my "Aspie Loop"... I'm stuck in the internal debate over whether to get by with a "not good enough" computer, spend a little on a noticable upgrade and be "passable" or blow the wad and get something "really nice".

Computer hardware and parts is one of my Aspie obsessions and since I no longer have a family, it IS what I spend most of my day doing... BUT I also like having that money in savings for a potential family lawyer down the road (though there's not near enough to do that.)

I need to break the cycle and I know from experience that the only way I'll do so is to find "good performance" and "good value" at the same time - otherwise I'll get buyers' remorse about overspending.

[sigh]
Sometimes Aspie obsessions really suck... any advice or thoughts?

Get an SSD

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php? ... omoid=1015

Then reinstall your OS fresh. That always makes the biggest improvement. I have old computers that run fast because I just leave a fresh install of XP on and don't put any junk on them (pentium 4).

Any new computer will begin to slow down as you put junk on it, you accumulate all sorts of DLL's and other crap that loads with the registry that other programs automatically install. The only way to recover speed is reinstalling the OS, so that it loads it back to just the basics.

Even on a modern OS like win 7 you still get slow-down creep, the best way to alleviate it so you don't notice is with an SSD.

I really loved the DOS days because you got to see everything that is loading, in windows the registry is so big and massive you can't go through it and no one has really produced any good tools to un-screw a modern windows OS even with so called 'registry cleaners'.

I think the loop got broken for me... My evil ex's lawyer just sent me a scare-letter. This has helped me decide where to spend my money - to keep most of it in the "lawyer fund". I'll move up to just enough to get some work done, write some music and juuuust enough video card to play a few games.

I have enough junk around the house to do this on the cheap... including an SSD. I just need a decent video card then. That's less than $100 in total and keeps the lawyer fund intact.

Now I just need to make it happen and the cycle will be broken............ for a while.

By the way, what's an SSD?