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Interesting alternative, maybe best of both worlds! Like the idea of the pre-mounted CPU and fan. Tend to agree with Wardy, though, about the SSD - it's a "nice to have", rather than essential. I'll have to see how far the budget stretches.

Thanks. Looking a bit pricey for high-spec, though.

Surely it depends on what you're doing with the PC? 16gb will probably help with the video editing, but how will the SSD help?

Evesham gambled everything on the Government's "Home Computer Initiative" - a scheme for employees to buy PCs tax-free from their employers. Then the Government cancelled the whole scheme at short notice. A real shame. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evesham_Technology

Yep, that makes sense. :thumbsup: So much information in such a short time! NSC redeems itself :lolol:

Thanks, that's pretty close too. Think I'd upgrade to an i7, though, as the CPU would get some heavy usage - I have some RAW scans in Lightroom that are over 100mb! And a Caviar Black might speed things up?

Wow, stunningly close to what I want! May drop the SSD, and may use on-board graphics (fine for Lightroom, though video editing may offload to the GPU), otherwise spot on! And way below my £800 budget. Can't do anything yet, as I'm moving house in a few weeks, but this is looking good! Oh, and...

All good advice Wardy, plenty to digest, thanks. I have my doubts about SSDs, as I'm not fussed about boot times. As regards operating systems, I can install Ubuntu in about 20 minutes, but will stick to Win 7 or 8 just for Lightroom, Sony Vegas and, er, oooh, the reasons are dwindling all the...

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Maybe I'll price up the components. Agree with you about Ebuyer. Trouble is, when I start researching these things, I get obsessed with the details and overloaded with information!

Gotcha, looks interesting. Have had components from them before.

Ta. Will check them out, but don't think they are configurable? Ta. Sounds like my kind of PC. Ta. It may yet come to that! Would be interesting, but being retired I have so much other stuff to do. :whistle: Ta. They're the ones I was trying to think of! Yeah, I have decent peripherals...

Never ever again!

I'm looking to replace my tired old desktop, as it can't cope with photo (Lightroom) and HD video editing, and upgrading isn't practical. I don't use the PC for gaming. Budget around £800. Would love to build it myself, but prefer something that works! PC Specialist and Chillblast seem to be...