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Excluding the case, monitor, keyboard, etc there are probably just over a grand's worth of components in there.
It's a long time since I bought a PC so not sure how much is out there. I guess you can buy something like this https://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/novatechblacknti301.html and choose your own monitor. Better processor and motherboard, faster RAM, larger SSD and HDD. No OS but cheap Win 10 licences are available (if you require Windows rather than linux).
Building one is pretty easy and the route I'd take but you're probably only going to save £200 or so by going that route.
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Thank you for this, very helpful. I'd probably pay the £200 just for piece of mind/warranty of buying from a reputable source.
Going to contact Novatech and see if they'll do a student discount or something... I think I've a windows 8 license already from a failed bootcamp experiment so might be able to just upgrade that which will save some pennies.
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I'm (still) looking at getting a PC desktop for doing 3D visualisation stuff... Trying to get as much bang for my buck as possible by checking out dell refurbs and HP education discounts but came across this bundle which seems far better spec than say HP's Envy at £500 more?
https://www.freshtechsolutions.co.uk/pre-built-custom-pcs/27-tft-computer-packages/intel-core-i7-4790-2tb-ssd-16gb-1600mhz-gtx-1080-8gb-storm-b-windows-10-27-monitor-keyboard-mouse.html
Any advices gratefully appreciated.