You need any specific parts to get your desktop going?
I could look into getting you something better that's sitting around collecting dust at the office (e.g. we have some desktop motherboards with LGA 1155 and Core i7 cpus). Not sure how bad your repair job is though!
Uthgard is promising and I was buff botting on there for a few days before I finally read their warning message and promptly stopped lol. I agree, it is eye opening at how tough leveling is when you don't have crafters, buff bots, friends etc...
Then I forgot about it for a while and my characters got deleted and I gave up.
BF4 looks insane, not sure I will be able to resist...
I've been tempted too. But I only recently upgraded my video card and I have yet to experience all of the BF3 content yet. Figured I'd stick with that so I can try to become king of the scrubs while everyone moves on to BF4.