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CYOA
Alright, I'm conceding that bootcamp isn't for games. I want a really small, quiet, attractive PC - probably between £1-2k to start with excluding monitor/keyboard etc.

Chris of bmx/this parish fame has suggested a louqe ghost s1 as a case to start with, which, while to my taste, doesn't seem to be available anywhere. Anyone for anything else?

Will purely be for gaming as I have other machines for work.

Wishlist:
- Very quiet (don't want sporadically be toggling audio with a loud fan if I leave 'open mic' on instead of push to talk - as the frequent recipient of this I know how irritating it is - not looking at anyone CG).
- Attractive (simple/clean, nice build quality, no flashing lights and gases floating around)
- Big enough for a powerful GPU (open to what this is but main game will be PUBG)
- Want to be able to play PUBG very responsively on high settings or above at high frame rate (monitor: 3840 x 2160 / 144hz - incidentally not sure what to display the game at for best balance of visual/performance based on resolution of monitor / scaling etc).
- Decent IO - ethernet (10gb?), lots of USB C/A, hdmi, decent bluetooth, wifi 6?
What guts does it need? The last PC I built was a Pentium 4.

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freddo in reply to @CYOA

Water cooled GPU. AIO water cooler for cpu. M2 SSDs instead of spinning hard disks. High quality PSU. tidy internals for smooth airflow

My intel skull canyon is small but hideously noisy. The watercooled eGPU by comparison is massive but near silent.

The thermal design of the Mac mini that the skull canyon replaced was excellent, perhaps because everything was soldered on. i would switch back in a heartbeat if I could.

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CYOA in reply to @freddo

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