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I get you but this will be purely used as a sim rig. With the exception of adding another M.2 drive (motherboard has three slots apparently) or a SATA SSD, I'll be leaving it alone.
Cost of CPU, GPU, RAM & SSD is roughly £2,150 without motherboard, case, cooler, build etc so it's £200 for all of that to be included with a warranty.
Feels like a solid deal.
Soul-
With that context... bargain. Buy it already :D
I generally don't have a clear purpose for the lifetime of a machine, with the exception of a NAS or something... and regretted having my future options for the machine I got narrowed by the motherboard.
But as you have a clear purpose... do it already :)
Velocio
Would not buy.
It's a nice machine, good components.
But the motherboard. The motherboard is a generic from Lenovo and whilst packaged nicely it really doesn't offer much in the way of expansion in the future. A solitary USB-C which may not be Thunderbolt, a solitary PCIE... if this machine fits your requirement now and for always, then great... but my mistake in buying a HP Omen (it was a whim purchase, I don't regret it for how I bought it) has ultimately come down to the lack of expansion capability... I cannot even take the USB-C dock that I use on the Mac or Thinkpad and plug it into the HP Omen due to the lack of full support for Thunderbolt, etc.
For me... I'd rather compromise the amount of RAM, the disk, etc... in favour of a system with a good motherboard and great CPU and pretty good GPU. A good motherboard is the longevity and usefulness of the machine IMHO.
I should qualify this... I am actually really happy with my HP Omen. I just have buyers regret that I didn't spend more time researching and think more about the motherboard and the details of that.