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!