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Thank you for the advice it's spot on and really helpful. I'll stick with Windows Pro (as I want bitlocker) and remove that 4th drive (not sure where that came from) but otherwise it looks great. Thanks so much for the help!

Good question, I assumed that adding a GPU was fairly standard now and never stopped to think about whether it was actually needed. Part of the reason was that I figured it would help with future proofing. I occasionally do some video editing (holiday video's etc), presumably the motherboard...

Hi All, I had some excellent advise on a previous post but have realised that I posted it in the wrong part of the forum. Hopefully this is the best place to share an updated spec for feedback. Hopefully I've shared all the useful information below, I'd greatly appreciate any feedback: 1...

Thanks for the advice so far it's been really useful, particularly around the Intel vs AMD point. Whilst respeccing I've realised that the spec above whilst good is probably way more than I need and that downgrading the GPU and the HDD can save considerable amounts. I've spec'd a new machine...

Ok thanks I'll respec based on the 7950x. Re the RAM, I currently run 4GB per instance, that's due to my machine only having 16GB. It can take up to 12GB per instance. Reflecting on it though if I dropped to 48GB then I could run 3 instances and still have 12 left. Worst case I close an...

Thanks that's really helpful. For my setup it looks like the 7950X may be a good alternative for the i9-14900. It doesn't look like the gains would be sufficient to go to 9950. Any feedback on the wider build?

I'd ideally like to stay under about 2.5/3k, this is flexible if needed. Monitor is an old Dell U2715h Main purpose of the system is: I don't think I'm looking for a gaming rig but will need something that's a decent spec as I'm regularly running multiple applications in parallel. For example...

Hi All, This is my first time building a machine as I've previously just relied on buying one of the higher end machines from somewhere like Dell. I don't think I'm looking for a gaming rig but will need something that's a decent spec as I'm regularly running multiple applications in parallel...