If you want PC to last again that long forget Intel's yester-yesteryer's 8 cores... With who knows how many more vulnerabilities to bubble gum&duct tape fix in that Swiss cheese architecture.
Security of Intels is at this level:
https://youtu.be/FcWllalgUfo?t=2m28s
SGX was supposed to prevent literally anything, including the absolutely highest privilege code like OS kernel from reading memory protected by SGX...
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/20...secrets-by-starving-your-computer-of-voltage/
Some time in fall/before Christmas next-gen consoles will bring that 8 cores/16 threads as mainstream.
With that as base level all heavier games will be made highly threaded.
And once multithreaded some of those things will scale to further core counts.
Also more than enough cores helps with web browser, voice chats etc on background.
Though AMD also gives multiple architectures per socket with next summer's Zen3 compatible with current motherboards after BIOS update.
Also price of yesteryear's models is actually lowered, so 12 and 16 core Zen3s might be well priced in late 21-winter 22.
Unlike Intel changing artificially sockets for same architecture just for the fun of making consumers pay more.
Ryzen 3700X/3800X would give 8 cores/16 threads at lot lower price than that Intel, while having real upgrade path.
12 core/24 thread Ryzen 3900X is also available at same price.
And that pre-built is typical pre-built also in elsewhere.
Only half TB SSD in £2000 luxury PC is somewhere between bad joke and insult.
1TB SSD is minimum at lot lower price level.
Also similar to Intel Samsung is overpriced brand and other drives are lot better priced.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/teamgroup-mp34-1tb-nvme-pcie-m.2-solid-state-drive-hd-00b-tg.html
And already 750W PSU is more than enough.
Would have to be extremely high end gaming PC to reach 400W power draw.
In fact typical high end gaming PC has power draw below 350W.
IF wanting high end this would be absolute top level PSU in performance and comes with 12 year warranty.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seas...-titanium-modular-power-supply-ca-06l-ss.html
By avoiding fashion/marketing hype brands and parts it's easy to get better return for money.
What should be really called as waterpipe coolers are another such product.
Waterpipes in place of heatpipes don't make heat disappear anywhere and all that heat has to be dissipated into air.
And typical slim radiator simply doesn't have excess of surface area.
In fact only few waterpipe coolers can beat the best heatpipe coolers in continuous cooling per noise.
Even sub £50 heatpipe coolers beat average waterpipe coolers in that.
While having nothing to fail and even with worn out fan they still have some cooling power.
Again the worst case failure of waterpipe cooler means burnt PC parts from leaked coolant and they have multiple degradation/wear mechanisms eventually causing total loss of cooling power.
If you want minimum hassle and maintenance cooling, just forget those.
And save also money to where it actually does something.
Also building yourself allows reusing parts.
For example good case doesn't get old.
(mine is 11½ years old)
On monitor side 2560x1440 is the sweet spot and will stay as that for some time.
3840x2160's 125% higher pixel count per frame is extremely demanding and in the heaviest games even the most overpriced graphics card struggle to do 60fps without dropping settings.
Next-gen consoles will no doubt also increase GPU demands of games in average.
And raytracing is/will be another "drag".
In fact it's now historically bad time to buy expensive graphics card.
For some years Nvidia has been focusing into pumping up consumers' butts... err prices and above £500 performance per price goes to bad and worser.
While marketing "forgets" to tell that use of raytracing makes performance crash down like MCAS 737 MAX with 30-50% drop in framerate.
That makes very expensive card give low mainstream price class framerates.
If you want long lasting graphics card, time to buy that will be in fall with new GPU generations out and hopefully similar competition to CPUs.
Wouldn't wonder if we'll get better raytracing cards at half the price.
In monitors depending on usage environment different panel types have advantages over others.
For example if you like dark room, VA panel's give the best image with their vastly superior contrast/black level compared to other panels.
But their response times fall behind other LCD types and especially certain transitions are very "challenging".
IPS has better and especially lot more consistent response times with some panels even competing with TNs.
Also overall colour/brightness stability is the best of all LCDs.
But their contrast is at best average compared to VA, so they need decently illuminated environment to be at their best.
Also 32" size has very few IPSes, if you want good size monitor for immersion.
And so far CES doesn't seem to bring out new ones.
. There was a bit of budget creep but this machine will be for the long haul so has to last a while.