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£1600 is very achievable; £1500 is harder. Here's where I'd start looking: Case FRACTAL FOCUS 2 ARGB GAMING CASE (BLACK) Good case Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 7 7700 Eight Core CPU (3.8GHz-5.3GHz/40MB CACHE/AM5) Very solid and decent value CPU Motherboard ASUS® TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI (AM5...

The MSI MAG274QRF-QD E2 is currently £230 on Amazon, an amazing price for a really good display. Leagues better than that Iiyama, decent as it may be.

You need two of the same card to run SLI. But SLI is dead. If you're only using it to run multiple displays (rather than, say, doing gaming or calculations/rendering) then you don't need a powerful card at all, and the iGPU on the CPU will be just fine. Or you can have mis-matching dedicated...

It's increasingly rare to have anything on the front of a case. People tend to prefer sleek looks and/or lots of perforation for airflow on the front of the case, so all those buttons and ports go on the top. There are a few ATX cases from the last few years that have what you need (the Phanteks...

When the whole platform feels like a scam, it's much harder to notice the real scams!

I can't quite bear to watch a 27-minute video about phishing, but I do wonder if the increased jankiness and weirdness of Twitter/X had a significant role to play. Whereas historically you got something that looked and felt professional, these days you can't rely on that with the platform...

Mozilla VPN isn't free; it doesn't even have a free version. It's essentially a repackaged Mullvad, but where a proportion of the profits goes to the Mozilla Foundation to support Firefox, Thunderbird etc. Mullvad is an excellent, top rate VPN, so Mozilla's is too. I'm actually using it right...

Honestly I'd want a better drive than that, given your failures. Personally, given the trouble you've been put to, I'd be inclined to ask for a better quality drive, one of the Solidigm ones, perhaps. One other thing I'd say: it's a bit late now, but that system is really not terribly well...

I think it depends on finances. Essentially you have three components that affect your gaming experience: Monitor Graphics card The rest of the system As you have shown, you can upgrade them separately, and this may be the way to get the best value. Your current system to me seems to have...

So very sad. This article by his friend and teammate Mike Atherton has moved me immensely: https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/graham-thorpe-family-interview-mike-atherton-f3lp8l5gb

Honestly I'd be inclined to wait a bit. You don't need to replace your system now, from the sound of it; in a couple of months there will probably be the new X3D chips, which will probably be a decent upgrade over the current ones for a similar price. It's a fair while before the Windows 10 sunset.

That build is amazing. Realistically you can get something in the region of £1500. You sacrifice some performance, some storage capacity, and, to an extent, a degree of upgradability, but this would be a very sound system and would take any upgrade short of the very top end of graphics cards...

How curious: must have missed that one. AMD in a rush and beating their board partners to release day from the sound of it. Re the actual advice, I'd stick with waiting for the 9950X on an X670E board, and it probably doesn't matter that much which one as long as it has the features needed.

It's a great motherboard but unless there are specific features you need I'd not spend an extra £180 on it. The feature you might need is 10Gb ethernet. If that's essential to you, the ProArt is great. If it's not, then the money wouldn't be well spent. But in fact I'd wait a couple of weeks...

The case is good, but unnecessarily massive for a regular desktop option. The benefits of a larger case are (a) providing for a larger motherboard, as is necessary for Threadripper, (b) providing for more hard drives, which you're not using, (c) providing for a complex cooling solution, which...

From looking at that build, I presume the £5k is before VAT? I would definitely go with AMD rather than Intel. Look at some news of Intel recently: their top-end CPUs are failing at a dramatic rate, and have enormous thermal problems associated with them. (The two things may well be connected.)...

Yes, plenty wrong with that build. In particular, the CPU, GPU and cooling. I'd go for something very different. What's the budget?

Depends on the monitor. You have to match the one to the other.

Just as important as monitor refresh rate is the resolution. Though at this price it had better be 1080p, because that's all you can reasonably get!

For video editing, there's nothing in the laptop space that can compete with a MacBook for efficiency and size. The closest you can get is the AMD chip with the integrated 780M graphics chip, which comes in at around £1000, but it's not competitive even with a last-gen MacBook. The biggest...