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Thanks for this. Looking good.

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.

I'll add: I could probably wrestle my way to a/the wrong specification but I value the expertise here.

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...

That's very helpful. I can live with cables other than the power cable coming out with Madam's reach -- the GPU cable is probably going to be DisplayPort -- less likely HDMI -- so there won't be any audio cable. Mouse and keyboard are wireless. Ethernet is wired. USB to monitor for webcam and...

Does the Coolermaster 130 put the GPU on the lhs of the case as well? -- I guess yes. Whether an ATX solution is viable with cable management depends on where the power socket is -- low down would be OK, high up would be an invitation for Little Madam to lounge on the top chewing the cable when...

Oussebon, thanks for the response. AIO -- you'll have to explain that (at which point I'll feel very stupid.). At least we agree about the cubby-hole so I can leave 2 NASes and a DLAN in that space. The cables point to the right -- I'm ashamed to say I don't know what that means for the...

Something else -- analysing/matching DNA data.