How much better can we do then this offering fromHigh Street Vendor

Socrates470BC · Sunday at 18:14

High Street vendor offers a LENOVO IdeaCentre 3 Desktop PC - Intel® Core™ i7, 1 TB SSD, Grey for £699.

I would like to know what alternatives we can put together.

PC is for Music production. Requires powerful CPU and lots of memory and storage.

Thanks

Socrates470BC · Sunday at 18:48

Thanks WARburton. Good start.

I think we can stretch the budget to £1,000 and probably go for a 800watt psu of better quality.

Socrates470BC · Sunday at 19:50

be quiet! PURE BASE 501 Mid Tower Case - Black

Asus TUF Gaming Z790-Plus WIFI (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard

Intel Core i7-14700KF (Raptor Lake-S) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail

NH-D15 Chromax Pure Black CPU Cooler with dual 140mm fans

CMK32GX5M2B5200C40, 5200MHz RAM Speed, CAS 40-40-40-77 Timings, 1.25v VDIMM, Lifetime Warranty with OcUK

be quiet! Pure Power 12 M 750W ATX 3.0 80 Plus Gold Power Supply

Kingston NV3 2TB PCI-e 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (SNV3S/2000G)

Comes out at £1034, but room for expansion and a graphics card further down the line.

Is everything her compatible?

Socrates470BC · Sunday at 19:52

WARburton again thanks. Good suggestions. I will let my nephew choose from these.

Socrates470BC · Sunday at 20:16

jigger said:
Very high failure rates on the 13 and 14th gen parts, avoid like the plague. Go for an Intel 200 or AMD Ryzen CPU.

You are correct. Will look to make changes.

Socrates470BC · Sunday at 20:40

Alternatives

Description

be quiet! PURE BASE 501 Mid Tower Case - Black

Asus TUF Gaming Z890-Pro WIFI (LGA 1851) DDR5 ATX Motherboard

Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF (Arrow Lake) Socket LGA 1851 Processor - Retail

NH-D15 Chromax Pure Black CPU Cooler with dual 140mm fans

CMK32GX5M2B5200C40, 5200MHz RAM Speed, CAS 40-40-40-77 Timings, 1.25v VDIMM, Lifetime Warranty with OcUK

be quiet! Pure Power 12 M 750W ATX 3.0 80 Plus Gold Power Supply

Kingston NV3 2TB PCI-e 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (SNV3S/2000G)

Description

be quiet! PURE BASE 501 Mid Tower Case - Black

Asus TUF GAMING X870-PLUS WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Eight Core 5.50GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail

NH-D15 Chromax Pure Black CPU Cooler with dual 140mm fans

CMK32GX5M2B5200C40, 5200MHz RAM Speed, CAS 40-40-40-77 Timings, 1.25v VDIMM, Lifetime Warranty with OcUK

be quiet! Pure Power 12 M 750W ATX 3.0 80 Plus Gold Power Supply

Kingston NV3 2TB PCI-e 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (SNV3S/2000G)

Socrates470BC · Sunday at 21:36

The original high street spec had 14 gen i7, 16GB memory and 1TB SSD and we tried to improve upon that.
Doubled the memory and the SSD storage.
Removed the issue of 14th gen i7 and went for either a Ryzen spec or New Intel core ultra.
Paid attention to the need for a quiet system and did not skimp on the PSU.
So min spec is i7 performance, 32 GB mem and 2TB SSD.
I think that we also improved upon the components that we would have got from the High Street box.
Budget was around £1,000.
Hopefully a solid system.

Always open to suggestions. Catching the 14 gen i7 issue was very helpful.