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Try to find reviews for the model you want, from what remember Dell/Alienware/HP and similar manufacturers tend to have underpowered cooling solutions which might cause the system to be either insanely loud or throttle the speed of the CPU or GPU.
You will also have to check if you get the correct ram with the system and if things like the firmware actually support the hardware it comes with. I have a Lenovo desktop and the bios it came with didn't support the GPU properly so it would crash any program that put a bit of load on it after about 30min.
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Thank you - the issues you suggest echo some of things in the reviews on the dell site - one of them said the standard cooling was rubbish but the liquid cooler was good. I need to do some proper research when I'm less tired. I guess if there was any major issue it would be possible to warranty it - would hope that's an advantage of buying from a big company. On the other hand that's not something I want to mess around with if it stops me working.
This is so much the opposite of bikes where i'd be wanting to build it up myself, etc. Whereas with a computer I just want something that works with a minimum of thought.
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Premiere + bits of After effects. Though just had to do some hi-res print stuff in Photoshop and computer was even struggling with that. Video is all social media type stuff, nothing at all high end, so my needs sound very different to yours, but I get all sorts of source material & then tend to plaster effects on it/add motion graphics, etc.
Current computer just gets very slow + some effects don't seem to work at all. It's got to the point where I just work round it and avoid things that I know will take ages , but I feel this is preventing me learning/doing new things, which can't be healthy. I recently had a project where I started doing some fairly basic After Effects 3d and by the end of it I was basically having to work blind because I couldn't preview anything.
t does seem like that Alienware might be a good bet, but I don't really understand enough about processors nowadays, so that's helpful.