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Scott, many thanks for your sage advice together with your recommendations. I'll take these on board for when I'm brave enough to press "Proceed".

Scott, Many thanks for your speedy response. I note that there is a CPU change from AMD Ryzen 5 8600G to 7600. Is that significant in processor power? I wish there was a place you could try these out to see how they perform. Now putting on my thinking cap.

Scott, Many thanks for your comprehensive responses and for your very much appreciated help. If I were able to stretch to a GPU that could run Flight Sim, what would you recommend?

Thanks Scott. I've had a good look. Three questions if I may. 1. I've been out of IT for many years so modern specs are a bit lost on me. Where did my spec go so badly wrong? 2. If I were to compromise on storage what would be your recommendation? I have a number of external HDDs if that...

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Thanks sck451. I do have an existing 21.5" IIyama Prolite but was planning to go slightly bigger though I could make do. I have a budget of £1000 inc VAT. What were your thoughts?

It's a desktop configuration mainly for Office / documents / photos / music / video and some browsing. This will be my 3rd from PC Specialist in 10 years and tech has changed, along with my receding hairline. I would welcome any feedback before I press the pay button. Case PCS ELEMENT CASE...

I could do with some partitioning advice. I'm mainly an Office / photos / documents /music / video / surfing type. I'm proposing to purchase 3 drives: 1. 512GB SSD for system and office apps etc 2. 1TB SSD for fast access storage etc 3. 2TB HDD for slower storage, 1st level archiving etc. Any...