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The configurator is flagging it and won't let me add a DVD drive... :-( EDIT - Damn, now it's letting me...

Hi Scott, I think you're right. :-) Have taken your advice and switched to the 3800X and the 1660 Super. Had to stick with the original case as your suggestion won't accommodate a DVD drive, which I need. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to recommend for me! Best, Stu

Thanks, Nursemorph - really appreciate your input. I may review my CPU choice...

Yeah, it's only a possible monitor update, and would be towards the end of this year, if at all. As I say, important this build is QUIET (for various reasons), hence the COOLERMASTER SILENCIO S600 and the Corsair 550W PSU. Interested why you've added the HDD - I have a 4TB HDD for all document...

Monitor is a 1080p 60Hz AOC - nothing special. Games right now are Doom Eternal, Nazi Zombies 4, some Minecraft and Fortnite...

Hi all, Budget was supposed to be sub-£1200, but PCS GPU prices seemed so good I decided to splurge on upgrading my GeForce GTX 1050 Ti now. System cost with GPU is almost dead-on £1500. If the wife finds out, I'm a dead man! It's only the regular 2060, not the Super. Plus, monitor is 1080...

I know it's overpowered for what I need it for (gaming, family workhorse, streaming, web work, etc.) but it's been 10 years since I last bought a new PC (also from PC Specialist!) so I wanted to make it worth getting excited about. ;-) Hoping for very fast load times and high level 1080p gaming...

Hi guys, I've got a ASUS® P7P55D-E PRO motherboard with an i7 870 and 8gb of RAM, plus a separate SSD with my OS (Win7 x64) The "problem" is that my boot times are stuck at around 30 seconds mainly because the mobo takes ages to kick in. I estimate a good 20 seconds of that boot time is the...

Hi guys - got my new PC yesterday: COOLERMASTER SILEO 500 QUIET MID TOWER CASE Intel® Core™i7-870 Quad Core ASUS® P7P55D-E PRO with 8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER CORSAIR 650W PSU (TX650) 80+ ULTRA QUIET which is very nice, but I was bit...

Hi everyone, I'm a new boy on the forums here, but seeing all the incredibly helpful advice and comments given here I wanted to ask some opinions on my hoped-for new PC. I've currently got a two-year-old but quite heavily modified Dell Inspiron with a Q6600 processor, 60Gb SSD+1Tb WD Green...