Upgrade my desktop – A little cheaper in the short run than some of the options below, but probably not the best medium- to long-term value. My motherboard supports a maximum of 32GB of DDR3 RAM and up to six SATA connections, and its LGA 1155 CPU socket would technically allow me to slap in a new processor. I’d still have the same issues I talked about above, and I wouldn’t be able to expand much because of the limits of my (and most other) consumer-grade motherboards. From what I’ve read, there aren’t a ton of benefits to upgrading from the Intel i7-2600K Sandy Bridge processor, especially with the premium at which most new Intel processors run. An upside is that sticks of 8GB DDR3 RAM are pretty affordable now-a-days, though I wouldn’t be able to put the old parts anywhere. Ignoring the pangs from the sunk-cost fallacy, this might work if I didn’t need to expand beyond ~32GB of RAM, didn’t mind keeping the office toasty, had no problem with putting extra wear-and-tear on my GPU and other components, and wasn’t concerned paying a higher power bill with little return.