LOL

It's a little like hot rodding, you tweak, you fiddle. just to get the max performance out of your box. From the games point of view getting fragged by the other guy is bad enough. To think it was your own hardware that has contributed to your humiliation, well it doesn't bear thinking about.

Death by lag

Some guys just throw money at the problem, there are a few in the clan that have spent £3000 plus on their gaming rigs. Me I have to work to a budget, I try to work smart. My rig is in a continuous state of evolution, I guess I must spend £500 or so a year on hardware to keep the speed up. The last purchase was a pair of 250Gb SATA II drives stripping. Map loads are oh so fast No longer do the guys with the fast machines cap flags before my PC has loaded the map... It's me half way to the objective before the others have finished loading. The next one will cost some, I need a faster CPU, that means MoBo and RAM Grrrrrr....

The up side is I have enough spare parts to build PC's at will Need a new Lin-Box no problem let me look in my parts box... I'll russell you up one in a couple of hours.

Heck I could have a really expensive hobby like golf!!!