Today, I got 2gb of ram for my desktop, in addition to the 1gb it already has. This helps significantly to stop the stuttering when a particularly poorly written game I play sucks up 800mb of ram.
Ram is so cheap these days. It used to be sooooo expensive...



Anyway, it's really hot here.
This is bad, because my desktop's videocard (evga 7600gs AGP) runs rather hot (according to the sensor, like 70 degrees idle hot). I'm not overclocking it, and I'm using a stock cooler. In this heat it is impossible to play anything for too long because it rockets up to 85 degrees unless I drastically turn down graphical settings, at which point it becomes insanely ugly.
I'm starting to think my GPU may be defective-- will contact evga about this on the weekend.

Ventilation isn't great, but it's not THAT bad; and I think that my PSU is supplying adequate power.

Also my allergies have started to act up.
Usually I have allergies to stuff like grass, pollen, etc... so if I take over-the-counter allergy medicine before going outside I am usually fine.
However, this year, I became allergic to the contents of my house-- haven't pinpointed it exactly, but I think it's feathers. This is very bad because my comfortable bedding has feathers; if I sleep using it I wake up with a stuffed up nose and itchy eyes.

fucking great.

It's probably just ventilation, my Dellputer had the same issue. You could always just save up and buy a new case. The one I have keeps everything extremely cool even in this fucking weather.