I really thought that I was going to get over on the computer companies, show them that I didn’t have to pay their over inflated prices for a computer that could get the job done.  I was just going to buy a super cheap custom system and have my computer geek buddy work his magic.  At first everything was going great with all of my overclocked components running beautifully, at speeds equal to that of much more expensive components, but my friend didn’t incorporate a good enough cooling system to handle all of the heat generated by countless pieces of hardware that were constantly running in overdrive.  It wasn’t too long before my system crashed, and many of my components got destroyed in the process.  The panic didn’t set in right away, I figured that I would just return the system, claiming that it was defective, and get my money back to put toward another computer system.  I probably should have figured that any form of overclocking or altering any of the hardware would void my warranty.  Now I’m out four hundred bucks and I don’t even have anything to show for it, I should have just bought a better system to begin with and avoided all this nonsense.