On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 12:31:18PM +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
I have managed to pick up a "Gaming" PC with i9-12900k, 64GB DDR4, and 2Tb NVMe (and Win11 Pro which I'm hoping I can repurpose in a VM) for £730 which seems like too much of a bargain that I wonder what I'm missing. I'm sure it'll become clear when it arrives! (PC Specialist wanted a lot more for the same spec.)
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.
Other places to get halfway decent PC from is awd IT and Palicomp, they give you a decent selection of parts and you can work out what benefit you're getting for the extra few quid here and there.
Adam --