Which PC for £500

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As long as you are running a 64bit version of the OS.
Running a 32bit OS with more than ~3gb RAM installed is pointless.

Oh and hard drives are slow yet still need to be accessed so buy a fast 10,000RPM drive or an SSD.

Indeed. Always 64bit unless you're on a netbook or something.

The key thing with hard drives is only to have to access the buggers once, which means no memory pressure, ever. I find 2x7200rpm SATAs in a mirror is pretty good. Doubled read speed and losing a drive doesn't involve reinstalling the machine. Most Linux distros will do the setup for this in the installer now, too.

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