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I think for £1500 you have to compromise somewhere. One option is to go for a lower-tier graphics card than is ideal (if you're looking at 1440p, I'd want the 7800XT). Another is to drop down lower than I'd ideally choose on storage. And the final one is to spend an extra £60 and compromise on...

I would suggest either the Fractal Pop Air or the Fractal Focus 2. You can do these with "send in your own case": put your PCS order in, then order the case off Amazon directly to PCS following the first item in the FAQs. The Lian Li would be fine too, of course.

Well the Gigabyte board you selected is white. You pay a lot more for a white motherboard. As for the other board, it's fine, but no cheaper. The only reason to prefer it is if you'll be using WiFi and your router is new enough to support WiFi 6E

If you need the Nvidia GPU you're either spending more money or getting a weaker card. I wouldn't go less than the 4070 Super, but that blows your budget. The 4060 Ti 16GB is a terrible card, but I guess if you absolutely 100% must have Nvidia (I'm not familiar with Maya), it's your only choice...

Your big problem is that display. It's really not a good display in modern terms. For £200 you could get something much better, 144Hz or better and 1440p. I would look at upgrading that (or, rather, getting a new display and using the old one as a secondary monitor). Then I'd look at a system...

How important is buying white components to you? You are limiting your choice significantly, so getting poorer performance at a higher price. Would you be happy with a white case, but regular/black components inside?

I would imagine AI would use the full power of the GPU, but I'd probably look on any specialist forums to do with that specific software. Yes, a 3060 or 4070 (or the equivalent AMD cards like the 7800 XT) would just slot straight in. The power supply is sufficient for either, and the cooling is...

Looks like a solid system, easily upgradeable. Is it just the VRAM on the graphics card that is insufficient for your needs? If so, the 3060 will be the cheapest option. If you wanted to upgrade to a more powerful card overall, which might well have benefits though I'm not familiar with your...

A 4080 should be fine on an 850W power supply. I might prefer a touch more, and would configure it on a new system, but the Corsair one is a very good quality unit and should be fine. The 4090 definitely not, and the next gen sounds worrying as well! Whether it's worth the cost of upgrading...

I'd go with something like the system below. NB that I have not included the same amount of storage as your original build to save money. But that is a really, really easy upgrade should you want more storage in future. Case FRACTAL FOCUS 2 ARGB GAMING CASE (BLACK) Really good case Processor...

You can buy a really good 1440p monitor for something like £200 (the MSI MAG274QRF-QD E2 is the obvious standout to me). You can certainly get a build to match for £1800, so fitting inside your budget above. If that sounds good to you I'd be happy to suggest something?

If your application is that memory intensive, it might well be best to wait a little while for the 9950X3D if you're able to. It's likely to have significant advantages in scenarios that are very dependant on memory use (though admittedly if you really need 192GB of RAM, the cache on the CPU...

If you're not looking to upgrade your monitor, there's no point in spending £2000 on a system. The monitor will be a massive bottleneck. For 1080p 60Hz gaming, this system is massive overkill. There are tweaks I'd make to make it make sense and be the best value at this budget, but really I...

You can do top end 1440p or mid range 4k. Personally I'd much prefer the former.

You can currently get the Alienware AW2725DF for just over £600. That would be my personal choice. If you want curved and wider, that's entirely possible, though I don't think you can have QD-OLED within your budget.

Yes, though as you say the PCIe version has its advantage. And yes, they all can, but your scenario is definitely one where X870E, which is normally excessive for a gaming PC, totally makes sense, and it's what I'd choose in your shoes.

Some boards reduce the speed of the primary slot if others, whether PCIe or M.2, are used. That's the problem with the Strix board.

You can keep the Elgato 4K60 Pro and get the full bandwidth if you go for an X670E board. Either the Crosshair or the Aorus would be fine – the Aorus is a lot cheaper.

I guess it depends on why you need 8TB of storage. If it's for game capture, a hard drive would be a better bet. If it's for storing games, I guess it might make sense to go for the massive drive if you really need it. If it's for video editing, the hard drive might also be an option, or you may...

Looking at the manual for that motherboard, it appears that the PCIe slots are independent, though both are affected by M.2 cards. If the second M.2 slot is filled, the top PCIe slot is x8, otherwise it's x16. If the third M.2 slot is filled, the PCIe slot seems to be disabled. The first and...