max budget 1500 pound, monitor i dont care as i will check up on it 2 times a day; more using it as a server like pc, set the program on and just check when i wake up and go to sleep if it hasnt crashed.
software eats RAM like no tomorrow, on my dedicated server (128 GB RAM, Bi Xenon 3.2 GHz processor) it most of the time runs on 98% RAM and 4-5% CPU usage. will run the PC day and night long. I am planning to eventually have more desktops in my own office as the OVH datacenter burns last year...