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Assuming 2k, and because I can only justify persuading other people to buy new PCs at the moment. I'd go for
Quiet PC Nofan A490S Skylake Silent Desktop
Configured as follows:
Cooltek UMX3 Zone Black Compact Tower Aluminium Case
Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3 LGA1151 ATX Motherboard
Intel 6th Gen Core i7 6700K 4.0GHz 91W HD 530 8MB Quad Core CPU
Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) 2400MHz Memory Kit
Nofan CR-95C Copper IcePipe 95W Fanless CPU Cooler
Nofan P-500A Silent 500W Fanless 80+ GOLD PSU
Quiet PC IEC C13 UK Mains Power Cord, 1.8m (Type G)
Samsung SM951 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
Seagate ST4000DX001 4TB 3.5in Solid State Hybrid Drive
Streacom ST-OB3 Slot-Load Blu-ray Rewriter Optical Drive
Creative Sound Blaster Z PCIe High Performance Sound Card
Intel 7260HMWDTX1.R Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Low Profile PCI-E card
Quiet PC Free Silver Warranty (2 years labour and parts)Then separately the
Palit Geforce GTX 970 Jetstream 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card NE5X970H16G2-2043J£2042 including the 970 GTX (which will run silent 95% of the time)
Have downgraded the full size case to the same range but slightly smaller - unless you particularly plan on packing the thing out with half a dozen HDDs in future?
A 512GB SSD for OS and Apps, a 4TB disk for data
32GB RAM because... well becauseAnd I'd guess you've got a copy of Windows that can be upgraded to Win10 for free.
duncs-
I'd go larger tower not because of HDD additions but because it's easier to stick stuff on top of it next to my desk (Garmins, phones, etc).
Why downgrade to the SM951 SSD? The 950 is faster.
I'd planned on using the 1TB data drive from my old machine but I'm tossing up throwing another SSD at it instead for da silence and then just using my external 4TB unit that I can turn on/off as needed for infrequent stuff / backup stuff.
I do have Win7 that could be upgraded but I don't plan on doing so, hence the new copy.
hippy
Yeah, I'll bung them an email. Cheers.