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Thats the problem that things move on so fast and stuff gets clogged up by regular or repeated working that it seems like no time at all before you feel you are being forced to upgrade!

It wouldn't be so bad if everything wasn't so cripplingly expensive.

Sibling dearest suggested that maybe it's the ssds that are the problem, so hoping I can scrounge enough money together to replace them as that will probably be cheaper than cpu/motherboard and if that ends up helping then I can kick the can down the road a bit further x_x

Yeah, the days of cheap bits for computers seem to be past us!

Hopefully the SSDs will work and you can get can kicking!