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Ha, I didn't mean to spoil your impulse buy! Also, was just joking about build, took me bloody ages. I think I specced out a silent PC and it came in around the same but had a £400 card, might be further up thread? Regardless of need/want/money earned paying £1700 for a machine with a £50 gpu doesn't strike me as prudent. I'll try and dig out some better examples and chime in with more constructive comments...
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Yeah, I see that, but I literally specced that up while talking to another dev on the phone about my 32-bit laptop and how it wouldn't run Zwift and maybe I should be upgrading my desktop because the shitty gfx is annoying me and something on it is not letting me use Garmin Express and it's slow running WKO and VisualStupido blah blah. It was me getting excited about having a new speedy box. A while back I was just going to throw money at a HP workstation because that's what I use elsewhere and it just works. Then I saw this Quiet PC thing and thought - game on! The video card choice was simply because I don't know any of the other brands. I guess Aus had different companies prevalant in the PC world 10 years ago.
I originally specced. up their more expensive box because it looked nicer :) But then I saw the USB ports on the top of the ugly one and went 'oooh easy Powertap downloads'. #cashedup #fickle
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Or perhaps you're just underestimating how much I earn?
I don't suppose you factored in an OS installation into that build time either did you?
If you want a build off, let me know. Loser pays for the other's machine. I'll bring the thermal paste.
Since you're so keen on ruining my impulse buy, I will go and check out the part prices to see what their build costs are and probably end up thanking you. Spoilsport.