I've had this great self-help program on motivation for years, but I haven't gotten around to using it yet... 

kitekrazy1
 As for FPS if it doesn't stutter does it matter that much?

Since motion picture and video technology works at 25-30 frames per second and that's sufficient to look smooth then chasing many times that number of frames per second has always struck me as pointless. Put another way, I can't tell 50fps from 120fps. I'd rather have a frame rate that looks smooth and more detail than trade off detail for a higher fps that makes no practical difference.

The light detecting cells in the human retina have an 'exposure time', basically how long an image is retained, of around 1/15 of a second, so anything where a frame lasts much less than that is going to look smooth. Some Manga manages to look pretty smooth at 10fps...

You forgot a couple of other stock responses -

"Your psu isn't big enough, you need at least a 1KW supply" offered as a response to any and all posts about any issue whatsoever that might conceivably be in any way hardware related, and

"SSDs use lots of power, over 200Watts each - so you need a huge psu to use one". (repeatedly posted by a couple of local 'forum gods' on one forum in response to any questions about SSDs - eventually one admitted he'd read the specs on Crucial's website wrong and was out by a factor of, well, a very huge amount).

Actually, comparing the FPS of a movie to a game doesn't really work.  The main issue is motion blur.  In a movie you're probably so busy watching the story as a whole that you don't even notice this but, playing a game where you're usually concentrating on a tiny area it becomes very noticeable at frame rates below 30 fps and somewhat between 30 fps and 60 fps.  This is why people shoot for 60 fps.  Your eye dithers between 60 and 90 Hz (cycles per second) to determine motion.  A pigeon, for example, has a much higher rate between 90 Hz and 100 Hz so they would see our games (and, especially, our movies) as a slide show.
 
This is also why your computer monitor is designed to refresh at 60 Hz or better.  Just look at a cheaper (or older) monitor while chewing gum or when video taping it and you'll see the flicker.  I know that lower refresh rates can give me eye strain and a headache after a while!

Randy P
You obviously weren't around the Guitar Tracks forum about 10 years ago, when a certain user couldn't quite grasp the concept that his Realtek soundcard wasn't up to the task of recording.

 That still exists today. I've read were so many fork out the money for a PC build and go cheap on a card. They don't understand that you wont get RME performance out of an iTrack Solo.