PC parts have a very short lifespan. You pay a high premium for the newest best stuff, then in a year it is old, in 2 years its nearly obsolete.
Its always been this way. I have an entire closet full stuff, 8800gts (the good one, G92), Gigabyte motherboards, AMD quad core processors, locked and BE both, a couple of SATA II hard drives, a 60gig SSD, keyboards, monitors, memory, a BFG PSU, all in good working condition and would make a pretty nice PC or two, if someone would take the time to buy a couple of cases and assemble them. I'd give it all away to someone just to clean out the stinking closet and make it all go away!