On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 at 16:58, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
Typically the worst things about cheap PC's are a cheap motherboard with a poor chipset and not much in the way of spare NVME slots or memory slots with poor voltage regulators and bad I/O. Poor quality cases and poor quality power supplies.
The mobo is a Gigabyte H610M S2H, I never had issues with Gigabyte in the past but I don't know my chipsets any more to know how that stacks up. I assume it's weak (for the price) but if it comes to it I don't mind replacing a mobo later. (It only has 2xDIMM but with 64GB that's not likely to trouble me in the lifetime of this PC.) 1xM2, 1xPCIe, 4xSATA.
It's a CIT "Seven" case - nothing special but I figure it could be worse. Don't know what PSU but I'll probably plan on replacing that at some point anyway.
For the money I figured that it won't owe me a lot and it'll give me a reference point given I haven't really looked at PC specs in a decade.
Other places to get halfway decent PC from is awd IT and Palicomp,
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. The PC I'm replacing is urgent as its playing up but I think there are a few others I should consider upgrading rather than spending so long waiting on them to do basic tasks!