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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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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.