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    PCSPECIALIST Upgrade NVME system disk

    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.
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    PCSPECIALIST Upgrade NVME system disk

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST Upgrade NVME system disk

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST Upgrade NVME system disk

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST Starting point for a suitable laptop?

    Thanks for this. Looking good.
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    PCSPECIALIST Starting point for a suitable laptop?

    It is bad advice; luckily, I'm not stupid enough to take it. I'm not wild about only 16Gb of RAM either; programmes are only getting hungrier.
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    PCSPECIALIST Starting point for a suitable laptop?

    I'll add: I could probably wrestle my way to a/the wrong specification but I value the expertise here.
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    PCSPECIALIST Starting point for a suitable laptop?

    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.
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    PCSPECIALIST Starting point for a suitable laptop?

    £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...
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    PCSPECIALIST Starting point for a suitable laptop?

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST New spec -- comments, anyone?

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST New spec -- comments, anyone?

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST New spec -- comments, anyone?

    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!!)...
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    PCSPECIALIST New spec -- comments, anyone?

    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 --...
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    PCSPECIALIST New spec -- comments, anyone?

    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...
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