lol.. it always leads to this..
Stone, from my point of view, if you buy a 6600gt for 10$ and run it with a 5.6ghz E8600 you get 75 points (all hardware records). and that looks easy to me. now look at a kingpin and shamino's GTX 295 runs, they modded that card till you cant even tell its a graphics card anymore, that requiers skill, then you have to run it on ln2, then you have to tweak and clock. all skill man.
hardware scores and global scores require skill and proffesionalism to reach the top.
You cant compete in grand Prix and race with a go-cart then say its lame cause they have million dollar race cars and you dont. its just the way life is.
I'm stil in school and dont have money to buy hardware, so i started selling pc's to people for cheaper than retial stores, gained money and bought higher end stuff, then competed in local comps to further international comps, then started emailing for sponsors.
if you truelly are a good clocker you will be able to work your way up, get sponsors, get good hardware and figure something out. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and make a plan.
happy clocking!