Firstly, thanks for your time and your comments people.
As for what choices I'd made, each item was based on Googleing, though of course they were isolated queries, not as a collection.
Then comes what I'll be doing with it all - it's for home use, mostly video editing/re-coding and 3D CAD.
I...
My first contact with a PC was, like many, at work. That was a Dell and I promised myself that when I bought one, that would be a Dell too. That time came in 2003 and when it came time to move from Windows XP to 7, I decided to update the PC too, that was in 2011 and another Dell. Dell had gone...