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A 60Hz monitor is going to kill you when it comes to gaming. 144 is generally the minimum recommended these days. It'll be fine for your content creation, but I'd strongly advise another monitor for gaming to get the best experience. Given your budget, you'd be looking at a 1440p monitor for...

I'll second the AOC Q27 recommendation. I bought one a few weeks back as a second monitor and it's well worth the outlay.

I would assume you add it before you checkout in the 'discount code or gift card' box.

Your best bet is to contact PCS, either via phone or live chat. This is a community run forum, so none of us actually work for them.

Sorry, I worded that terribly. Which one have you connected to? Have you tried connecting to the internet via ethernet? If so, which port did you connect to? The one on your motherboard or the one on your network card?

You have a wireless network card and onboard wifi - which one are you connected to?

Scott explains it far better than I could here: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/why-more-than-one-storage-drive.94375/

This is a community forum, none of us actually work for PC Specialist. If you want to leave feedback, which I hope you do, you're going to have to call them or email instead.

The problem with pre-built PC's, as Ekans alludes to, is they often throw in one expensive component (usually the graphics card) and then add in cheaper components to keep the overall price down. That build above has a 4070 (expensive) thrown in with last-gen RAM and motherboard. I think, for...

Power Supply Unit. The higher end the components, the more power they use. The more power they use, the higher wattage PSU you need. I think you'll need to re-assess your expectations. You're just not going to get the setup you want for 1,500 euros.

No, it's not. It's two thirds of the full spec and doesn't have the configurable link at the bottom for anyone to edit. Did you read the linked thread? But to answer your question, it's not a good setup. At the very least we need a max budget before we can move forward.

Worth noting that if you upgrade your GPU, you're also going to have to upgrade your Power Supply because these newer cards use more power. 16GB is fine, although we usually recommend 32GB these days. Upgrading to a faster RAM would be beneficial and 3200MHz is very slow these days, but your...

There is no fix, that's the point. You could swap the CPU out for another one, but it's almost certain that you'll have the same problem. As it's an Intel build, you can only choose another Intel CPU due to the socket on your motherboard. Changing to AMD would require a motherboard change, so...

Unfortunately, it's a known, widespread problem with the 13th/14th Gen Intel CPU's. https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/intel-13th-and-14th-gen-confirmed-defective.96599/ There isn't a definite 'fix' as such, but Intel have released a microcode update that slows down the degradation...

Everyone has a budget, whether it's £1,000 or £4,000. We could almost spec anything, but without some kind of parameter, it's impossible to get right.

Is this a PC Specialist system? If so, can you post the full spec from your orders page? Thanks.

I think there is, but the gap between the motherboard and front fans always looks so big that it feels like the space needs to be filled.

You're just left with a gaping space without them. Aesthetically you definitely 'need' them. ;)

That's almost exactly where I got to, save for a different case and a Windows key.

I'm not sure of the link you're seeing between the CPU and the GPU