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Thanks for that.
I had set a budget of £1,300 to buy a gaming capable computer that will last at least 5 years for a 12-yr old boy to use it all the way through to when he goes to Uni.
But frankly that budget was reasonable 4 months ago, but looks silly now. It will only buy the absolute budget machine and doing so won't allow it to age well.
He's gone from dreaming of building a PC, to thinking of pre-configured gaming machines, to "maybe Dell or HP have something"... and those look more like office machines and I know he'll be bitten by lack of PCIE slots, lack of RAM slots, and USB-C that isn't Thunderbolt.
So I'm going to see if I can help him bump the budget back up.
Speaking of which, does anyone have a spare monitor? For him to game on... a 24" or 27" that works fine? Spare as in... freecycle?
If I can eradicate some of the things he has to buy then more of the budget can go to the CPU and GPU which dictate most of the PC price at the moment.