One of the M.2 slots is in clear view. The other is under a cooling plate but not obstructed by the graphics card. All installed now and windows installation underway. Thanks for your help.
Windows, apps plus OneDrive data (less than 1Tb of data -- I have a NAS for the high volume stuff --4Tb of RAID5 on M.2 disks for important stuff, plus 5Tb of JBOD.
But it sounds like using the 512Gb for the system disk makes more sense.
:( However, I've just had a quick look inside the case...
The SSDs are 4 years old, but reported as in good health. I suppose it would be more future proof to remove the 256Gb, install the 2Tb and put Windows onto that...
My current system spec is:
Case
FRACTAL MESHIFY C BLACK GAMING CASE (Window)
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.6GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF X570-PLUS GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
64GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (4...
What's wrong with the desktop? Nothing... except I can't take it into hospital, or use it on my sofa/in bed when I'm not capable of sitting at my desk. Nor take it out and about on my good-health days (I do have some).
Let's say £2.5k absolute max.
£2k max. Less would always be better :)
Could push the boat out a bit if absolutely necessary, esp. for future proofing.
OK, let's be honest. I've been a nerd since 1976 -- before the word was invented. I like bells and whistles and being able to try out all the new stuff. Plus I just got my...
Use case:
I will want to run the following programmes regularly: Family Historian 7 (not too memory or CPU intensive), Visual Code with several extensions, Vivaldi with very many tabs open, Skype, Zoom, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Money. Scrivener, a bit of image processing, maybe some video...
Taking all that into account (I think):
Case
FRACTAL MESHIFY C BLACK GAMING CASE (Window)
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.6GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF X570-PLUS GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE...
The application (or application suite) is (a) the only option in it's 'space' and (b) incredibly badly documented -- there is no technical documentation at all and the user documentation is rubbish. It is also pretty badly written. Basically it creates very large text data files by...
Maybe re Windows licence -- but I'm planning to charge something for the hardware and licence so that might be the easiest route. Add £90 to the cost of PC I pass on.
Case
COOLERMASTER ELITE 130 CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB (Special!!)...
It is unfortunately dependent on everything -- Internet speed (data collection), processing speed (analysis/fuzzy matching) and disk speed (writing each result as the analysis progresses). Routine (weekly) runs can take 3-4 days at present -- even if data is pre-downloaded from the Internet --...
That's pretty well what I'm planning to order, although I've swapped the SD for a M.2 SSD and modified the CPU to get it in within the magic £1500. Does it still make sense?
Case
FRACTAL MESHIFY C BLACK GAMING CASE (Window)
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.4GHz/36MB...