New spec -- comments, anyone?

[colevalleygirl]

Note: I have to have a small footprint case but want to pack as much into it as I can -- but I'd also like to reduce the cost somewhat!

I'm concerned about cooling in the smaller cases -- I have a Coolermaster Elite 130 at the moment with an i7-4790k and a 2GB AMD RADEON R7 260X and a Samsung SSD, and cooling hasn't been a problem, but I want to up the performance significantly (not for gaming, but heavy multitasking including a lot of background number-crunching).

Case constraints: it has to sit on the desk behind the monitor for accessibility -- and the cables at the back have to be very well protected against interference from cats -- there's a casing of the same height as the current case into which all the cables run to avoid needle teeth -- with a tower it won't be so easy to protect the cables. I do have an under-desk cubbyhole that would take a tower (in height and depth) but it's only 21.5cm wide, so unlikely to allow for adequate cooling air flow (even if I was physically capable of installing the box and running the cables.)




FRACTAL DESIGN NODE 304 Mini ITX Case
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i9 Eight Core Processor i9-9900K (3.6GHz) 16MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING: Mini-ITX, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
8GB AMD RADEON™ RX 580 - HDMI, DP - DX® 12

1st Storage Drive
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA 2.5" SSD, (upto 560MB/sR | 540MB/sW)
External DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x Slim USB 2.0 External DVD-RW
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H60 2018 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
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GIGABIT LAN PORT + Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi excluded on H310I-PLUS)
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MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
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Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [MUP-00003]
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United Kingdom - English Language
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[UKJLo]

Heavy number crunching in the background? Rendering or somthing else?

 

[colevalleygirl]

Something else -- analysing/matching DNA data.

 

[Oussebon]

If cooling is a major concern, putting an i9 9900k into a small case and giving it only a 120mm AIO wouldn't have been my first choice!

My suggestions would be to either:
1) Go with an ATX system in a compact case like the Fractal Meshify C - 440mm x 212mm x 395mm (Approx H x W x D) - the depth is hardly any more than cases like the Elite 130 (I have the 120 myself from a self build) and it does allow for full size cooling options. I wouldn't slot it into a cubby hole but perhaps you can have it behind the monitor and adapt cable management solution?

The better cooling options would allow for beefy CPUs. Like the 9900k. Or if your uses are heavily multithreaded, the AMD R9 3900x (or 2950x if you can afford it) would almost certainly be better options).

2) Go with an AMD R7 3700x build. The 3700x offers very competitive performance versus a 9900k, is a lot cheaper, and uses significantly less power under heavy load - so less heat to get rid of.

Is the rear of the PC (with the cables coming put) pointing to the left or to the right? That won't matter for an ATX PC but does matter for the mini PC as the GPU is side ventilated. If the side with the GPU is up against a wall, that's not good for a more powerful GPU and its airflow.

 

[colevalleygirl]

Oussebon, thanks for the response.

AIO -- you'll have to explain that (at which point I'll feel very stupid.). At least we agree about the cubby-hole so I can leave 2 NASes and a DLAN in that space.

The cables point to the right -- I'm ashamed to say I don't know what that means for the position of the GPU. I do however have the option of moving it so it points to the left, although I'd have to get a new cable management solution created (lots of mdf and paint and complaints from the OH).

I think changing the CPU to the AMD R7 3700x is the way for me to go, and keep a mini case -- either the FRACTAL DESIGN NODE 304 or another Coolermaster Elite 130. Is there any reason to pick one of those cases over the other?

I'm also going to change the Seagate SSD for a Samsung 870 EVO Plus M.2, having done some background reading.

 

[Oussebon]

ways to try to feed air to cool the hotter components like the GPU.

Both the Node 304 and the Elite 130 do this by putting the GPU up against the side of the case and having holes there to let it get direct access to fresh air.

You can see the vent on the side here:

This means that if the rear of the case is on the right hand side, the vent for the GPU is pointing away from you and presumably up against the wall / quite close to the wall with not much room for air circulation?

From an airflow point of view, you'd ideally want it the other way around so the GPU's air intake isn't as obstructed. Though that does mean the GPU's fans are pointing right at you and this may not be very quiet under load...

If you are turning the thing 180 degrees to maximise airflow to the GPU, and this means you need to re-do the cable management solution with a DIY project, would there perhaps be an argument for going with an ATX system? As you're doing a new cable management solution anyway.

 

[colevalleygirl]

Does the Coolermaster 130 put the GPU on the lhs of the case as well? -- I guess yes.

Whether an ATX solution is viable with cable management depends on where the power socket is -- low down would be OK, high up would be an invitation for Little Madam to lounge on the top chewing the cable when I wasn't looking... I don't want to build a 'cable box' as tall as the case, as that would present cooling problems of its own.

Will think and try to assess which ATX cases have power sockets low down.

 

[Oussebon]

I guess yes.

You guess right

For the overwhelming majority of ATX systems the PSU is bottom mounted. It is extremely uncommon to see top mounted PSUs in modern ATX cases.

Actually the power cables are higher up on the 130 Elite, which because of the mini design does have a top mounted PSU.

This is the Meshify C, which I think should be your go-to case for an ATX build:

You can see the power cable coming out the back there. It's pretty low down, just a few cm off the table, as the PSU is the lowest thing in the case.

You'd also have a cable coming out of the GPU mid-way up the PC, and a cable or cables to the motherboard for mouse, keyboard, ethernet if you use it, and possibly audio too.

 

[colevalleygirl]

That's very helpful.

I can live with cables other than the power cable coming out with Madam's reach -- the GPU cable is probably going to be DisplayPort -- less likely HDMI -- so there won't be any audio cable. Mouse and keyboard are wireless. Ethernet is wired. USB to monitor for webcam and microphone and to enable other USB slots on the monitor.

I think I can see a way forward, using a Meshify C.

Many many thanks for all your help.

 

[Oussebon]

No worries at all

So revising your original build into an ATX system with an R9 3900x, decent X570 motherboard, and a beefy cooler into the Meshify C, looks something like:

Case
FRACTAL MESHIFY C BLACK GAMING CASE (Window)
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.6GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF X570-PLUS GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
8GB AMD RADEON™ RX 580 - HDMI, DP - DX® 12
1st Storage Drive
1TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
External DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x Slim USB 2.0 External DVD-RW
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i RGB PLATINUM Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [MUP-00003]
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United Kingdom - English Language
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Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
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FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365 (Operating System Required)
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Price: £1,549.00 including VAT and Delivery

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I think that's actually not much more expensive.

Also went for a better quality and more efficient PSU than VS series.

I note you said you were going to fine-tune some things like the SSD, but perhaps that helps as a starting point.

 

[colevalleygirl]

That's pretty well what I'm planning to order, although I've swapped the SD for a M.2 SSD and modified the CPU to get it in within the magic £1500. Does it still make sense?

Case
FRACTAL MESHIFY C BLACK GAMING CASE (Window)
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.4GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF X570-PLUS GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
8GB AMD RADEON™ RX 580 - HDMI, DP - DX® 12
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W)
External DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x Slim USB 2.0 External DVD-RW
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i RGB PLATINUM Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365 (Operating System Required)
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[Oussebon]

Unless your work is far more reliant on SSD storage speed that CPU multithreaded processing power, I'd get a cheaper SSD and stick with the more powerful CPU.

To balance to £1500 you could perhaps swap in some storage from your old system / get a smaller SSD?

The motherboard supports 2 M.2 SSDs, both upto PCIe 4.0 x4. And so in a year or two you'll likely be able to add SSDs twice as fast as the 970 Evo is, once the tech has matured a little and relevant controllers for the SSDs are more available to manufacturers.

If you are sticking with the 3700x, you can economise further on the cooler - the cooler master Lite 240 would be fine and it's probably not worth the extra £70 for the H100i.

 

[colevalleygirl]

It is unfortunately dependent on everything -- Internet speed (data collection), processing speed (analysis/fuzzy matching) and disk speed (writing each result as the analysis progresses). Routine (weekly) runs can take 3-4 days at present -- even if data is pre-downloaded from the Internet -- and the current system runs like a three-legged dog while it's going on.

A smaller SSD might be good enough -- but I'm using 400Gb at the moment, so 500GB (irrationaly) feels too small. (Yes, I have a lot of NAS capacity available, but it isn't as fast, so I mostly use it for archival storage and backups, plus music/videos). it's a good point re the likely improvement in M.2 SSD performance.

Can't swap in storage from existing system -- there is a squabbling queue of family and friends who suddenly want a system upgrade -- some of them are even willing to pay for it, so I can offset that against the cost of a new PC.

This is just over budget but... has the better CPU, a standard SSD, and allows me to add an M.2 SSD in future and also expand the memory.

Case
FRACTAL MESHIFY C BLACK GAMING CASE (Window)
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.6GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF X570-PLUS GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
8GB AMD RADEON™ RX 580 - HDMI, DP - DX® 12
1st Storage Drive
1TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
External DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x Slim USB 2.0 External DVD-RW
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i RGB PLATINUM Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [MUP-00003]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
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Office Software
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Warranty
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[Oussebon]

What's the spec of your existing PC out of interest? The CPU and the storage.

Could you use the Windows licence from your old PC on your new one?

You may be able to tie it to your MS account to transfer it. That would save ~£90 and, well, family and friends can get their own darn Windows key

 

[colevalleygirl]

Maybe re Windows licence -- but I'm planning to charge something for the hardware and licence so that might be the easiest route. Add £90 to the cost of PC I pass on.

Case
COOLERMASTER ELITE 130 CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB (Special!!)
Motherboard
ASUS® H97I-PLUS: Mini-ITX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
16GB Kingston DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
2GB AMD RADEON™ R7 260X - DVI, HDMI, DP- DX® 11, Eyefinity 3.0 Capable
1st Storage Drive
1TB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 350W VS SERIES™ VS-350 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H55 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 Professional 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 8.1 (64-bit) Professional DVD with paper sleeve
Office Software
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Firefox™
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3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
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[Oussebon]

You could use Task Manager while it's being slow. See whether the CPU load is 100%, or the SSD load is 100%.

Maybe monitor multiple times over an extended period to see if it varies at all..

My money would be on CPU because you already have an SSD in the system. And if the PC was ground to a halt for 4 days of continuous writes to the SSD, you'd have filled that SSD up pretty fast given how much data can get written over that period, unless it writes over itself a lot I suppose.

 

[ubuysa]

It is unfortunately dependent on everything -- Internet speed (data collection), processing speed (analysis/fuzzy matching) and disk speed (writing each result as the analysis progresses). Routine (weekly) runs can take 3-4 days at present -- even if data is pre-downloaded from the Internet -- and the current system runs like a three-legged dog while it's going on.

I would suggest you find out more about the characteristics of the application, ideally from the documentation. Does it support multi-threading for example, does it read/write multiple files concurrently?

Running Task Manager as Oussebon suggests will help discover where the bottlenecks lie, but you might do better running the Resource Monitor instead, it's so much more detailed and may help answer some important questions.

In Resource Manager right click on the process (or processes) for your application and select 'Analyze Wait Chain', you'll see a window that will list the synchronisation objects on which the process may be waiting - these are the things that are stopping the process executing as fast as the CPU can manage. If it simply says '***** is running normally' then there is no wait chain and any delays are simply the (slow) execution speed of the CPU.

If the application is multi-threaded then you want more cores (or more logical processors) but if it's single-threaded you want the fastest CPU you can get and can put up with fewer cores.

If you think the application reads/writes to many files concurrently then you might see that in Resource Monitor - check the response time value for each file compared with the 'Total bytes/sec' being read and written, to see whether queuing for the drive might be a problem. If you think it might be, then running a Performance Monitor report selecting the 'Physical Disk\Current Disk Queue Length' counter will help, any values higher that 2 indicate excessive queuing. The thread at https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/using-the-performance-monitor.60203/ will show you how to run the Performance Monitor with specific data collectors.

If I/O queuing is an issue then you want more physical drives in your build, one for each of the files in concurrent use ideally. You might find that files are used in groups, in which case you could reduce the number of physical drives and distribute the files appropriately across those drives.

Without knowing much more about the characteristics of your application it's hard to suggest where you should spend your money....

 

[colevalleygirl]

The application (or application suite) is (a) the only option in it's 'space' and (b) incredibly badly documented -- there is no technical documentation at all and the user documentation is rubbish. It is also pretty badly written. Basically it creates very large text data files by interrogating web-based databases (that bit is limited by both Internet speed and throttling carried out by the web databases, so can't be improved). Then it reads those very large text files line by line into memory, does some number crunching on the data set (looking for several different kinds of correlations between each line and every other line, plus similar records already in its database) and then writes the results into a SQL database (currently at 1.2 million records) using in-memory journalling to improve performance. It also provides an interface to view and annotate the correlations its made.

Resource Manager says it's running normally (all 4 processes) during the data gathering process and the data viewing process, but it's maxing out the CPU regularly. It doesn't read and write to multiple files concurrently, but does appear to be multi-threaded when doing the correlation analysis.

My conclusion: spend my money on the CPU.

 

[ubuysa]

The application (or application suite) is (a) the only option in it's 'space' and (b) incredibly badly documented -- there is no technical documentation at all and the user documentation is rubbish. It is also pretty badly written. Basically it creates very large text data files by interrogating web-based databases (that bit is limited by both Internet speed and throttling carried out by the web databases, so can't be improved). Then it reads those very large text files line by line into memory, does some number crunching on the data set (looking for several different kinds of correlations between each line and every other line, plus similar records already in its database) and then writes the results into a SQL database (currently at 1.2 million records) using in-memory journalling to improve performance. It also provides an interface to view and annotate the correlations its made.

Resource Manager says it's running normally (all 4 processes) during the data gathering process and the data viewing process, but it's maxing out the CPU regularly. It doesn't read and write to multiple files concurrently, but does appear to be multi-threaded when doing the correlation analysis.

My conclusion: spend my money on the CPU.

Yes, I'd agree. You want a CPU with at least 5 logical processors (or cores), one for each application thread and (at least) one other for everything else so that all four processes can run concurrently.

You also want lots of RAM, and given what you say here I'd go for 32GB of the fastest RAM you can afford. Next to the CPU the RAM speed (and size) will be critical for that application's performance. I'd go for 2x16GB if you can so that you have room to increase that if you find you need to. (By the way, you can tell whether RAM is a problem on your existing PC by looking at the Hard Page Fault Rate on the Memory Header in Resource Manager - if that's more than about 5 consistently then RAM shortage is a problem for you).

I would also get two of the fastest M.2 NVMe SSDs that you can afford, one for Windows and programs and one for your application's files. Size-wise the Windows one need be no larger that 256GB - you could even get away with 128GB if you're not planning on installing other large applications or games. The one for the application work files needs to be at least half as big again as the maximum file size you expect (for growth).

The CPU can only operate on program code and data that's in RAM, hence you need enough RAM, and you need to be able to move that data from RAM to the CPU as fast as possible, hence the fastest RAM you can afford. When the application is reading or writing files it's not running code (at least that particular thread isn't) so you want the application's read/write operations to be a fast as you can make them and that means a fast M.2 NVMe SSD. Since Windows is running everything, and since Windows does write to the drive now and then, you also want WIndows on a fast M.2 NVMe drive - but NOT the same drive as the application because that will result in excessive queuing (only one read/write operation is allowed per drive).

 

[colevalleygirl]

Taking all that into account (I think):

Case
FRACTAL MESHIFY C BLACK GAMING CASE (Window)
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.6GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF X570-PLUS GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
8GB AMD RADEON™ RX 580 - HDMI, DP - DX® 12
1st M.2 SSD Drive
250GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 2300MB/W)
2nd M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3200MB/W)
External DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x Slim USB 2.0 External DVD-RW
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i RGB PLATINUM Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [MUP-00003]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365 (Operating System Required)
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Browser
Google Chrome™
Warranty
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