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    PCSPECIALIST What are you upgrading from?

    Well I was right - what a difference! From turning it on to Chrome opening up takes 30 seconds max. Installing Office last night took no more than 5 minutes. Just got to try working with it now, but that'll have to wait till the weekend
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    PCSPECIALIST Buying a desktop PC from PCS without Windows installed

    Do you need to uninstall from the previous PC?
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    PCSPECIALIST What are you upgrading from?

    I'm upgrading from a 9 year old PC: CPU - Intel Core i3-2100 3.1GHz RAM - 4GB (2 x 2GB Kingston DDR3 1333MHz) Storage - 500GB WD5000AADS-00S9BU Motherboard - Intel DH67BL with integrated graphics I'm going to: Case PCS 3601 CASE Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i5 Six Core Processor i5-10400F...
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    PCSPECIALIST General use and possibly gaming pc

    Hi Tony, I'm not exactly knowledgeable on this, but the advice I got was that I'd be better with M2 SSD storage rather than SATA - if you select your 2TB HDD as your first storage device and then 256GB PCS in the M2 storage option it will only cost £7 more but be a lot faster. They will install...
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    PCSPECIALIST Help - can't choose between specs

    I've tried de-selecting the SATA SSD and adding the M2 SSD, but the only way it would work was to move the HDD to the primary storage - will this definitely put Windows on the M2 drive?
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    PCSPECIALIST Help - can't choose between specs

    Sorry, here's the URL https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/intel-home-office-pc-III/mccwrTEkUP/ Budget is pretty much maxed out here - I was originally thinking around £500, but tweaking various bits ended up pushing it up to £635. If I switch out the SATA SSD for the 256GB INTEL...
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    PCSPECIALIST Help - can't choose between specs

    And one other thing I need to check - do I have to select something in the 1st Storage Drive section (only options are SATA SSD or HDD), or can I use an M2 SSD to hold Windows and programs and then SATA HDD for data storage?
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    PCSPECIALIST Help - can't choose between specs

    Hi, looking at replacing my 9 year old PC as it's becoming increasingly slow to do anything. Spent a while working out the spec I'm looking for (only using for general home use - Excel / Word / Powerpoint, Internet, the kids use it for Minecraft, and a bit of basic video editing of some old...
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