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You should really have asked for advice before ordering. For instance, the 3070 is a complete waste of money.

Not sure about the liquid cooler. The 7800X3D is quite power efficient and a decent air cooler would suffice and requires no maintenance.

It does depend on use-case though. It wasn't particularly good in production workloads. Fine for gaming though and the power figures are excellent.

I think the 4070 has to have 12GB or it's DOA. The 4060 ti and vanilla are both likely to have only 8GB and therefore will be very difficult to recommend either.

Wouldn't say no to Planet Zoo if you still have it?

Similar here. Mines going to be Starfield.

More cores are usually better for non-gaming applications so I would expect the above laptop to be unsuitable.

Depends what they use it for. Not everyone can afford to chuck a grand at a new PC.

You could stick something like a GTX 1650 in it and the power supply will handle that just fine. You would see close to twice the performance.

Novuna used to be called Hitachi Personal Finance when I used them. I had no problems at all with them back then and PCS have been using them for a very long time.

Cancel the direct debit once you've paid.

32GB of RAM and 16GB of VRAM for 1440p? That's just bonkers. Probably 80% of PCs out there won't be able to play it (at least at that resolution and decent settings). Mine won't.

If you switch hibernate on it only uses 40% of memory size but 100% when disabled, which seems a bit counter intuitive.

Sadly it sounds like the motherboard. I guess it's out of warranty?

Plug the monitor into the motherboard to rule out the GPU, but it sounds like a memory issue.

Not sure what the point is in benchmarking drives, is it like overclocking a CPU or something? Maybe I'm missing something.

Not sure RAID 0 is going to make much difference for gaming other than the initial load. Better to get a smaller OS drive and then a larger separate gaming drive.

That's what I do, using a second slower and cheaper SSD. I actually have a 3rd HDD for static data as well. It's cheap and HDDs are actually more reliable in a "predictive failure" way than SSDs. I also use a portable HDD for backups.

You may want to specify a 2nd drive. You don't want 3 kids jumping all over your OS drive.

Would be nice to see something that would make Nvidia reduce their daft prices, but sadly I don't think it will happen.