New PC

Thank you.

The OS can be transferred off the old HDD.
I ain't bovvered about WiFi.
The SSD is Western Digital.
 
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You may find the OS doesn't transfer properly. It's licenced for the PC you purchased it with, and there was a lot of controversy that you could change a couple of bits in the PC, and then it would force you to re-register it; after you're changed about 4 components, it would lock you out, but I don't know if they removed that piece of catch you out from the system yet. Some of the old SSDs weren't that fast, but it should still be better than a hard drive. Wifis good if you can't easily plug in the router, but no, it's not desperate.
 
Ok, somewhat future proofed processor and board.
Check out power supply physical size and rating against possible future requirement.
Small form factors leave little room for stuffing the latest gizmos into the thing.
https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator

I have a 27" Dell monitor, gets pretty warm, like the price (was) !

Our 10 yr old Dell desktop has the most amazingly sharp 20" Dell original screen. 'Flat Panel E207WFP 20" (TCO99)' 720p max - but does that real good. 'fleabay' ??
Blimey this old machine with E6750 Core 2 Duo Processor (2.66GHz,) a Samsung 840 SSD and 4GB ram toddles on quite respectively. Given it has 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT card this shares up to 2GB system memory if required and available. A joke eh? But peeps watching 'American Battleship' will not believe the puny card !!
The thing is - speed - The i7-377k m/c (Sata3) images it's 240GB SSD (92GB used) to internal HDD and then verifies the same in 21 minutes (12mins to image - 9mins to verify)
The old Dell does similar task 100GB used, imaged and verified in 42 mins (Sata2).
Both utilise Macrium Reflect for the disk imaging, using medium compression 92GB saved in 59GB.
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It looks okay, but sheck out which NVMe ssd it is, and the speed of it.
 
For everybody following the story of my desktop being "not as described" after a lot of wrangling and emails to and fro, the final offer is either a return and refund or a credit of £10 to my account.
As I don't think I will get anything near to the actual spec I have now, I think a refund would put me in a worse position. AFAICT, the law says the only thing I am entitled to is a refund for a broken contract.
 
Well if putting £10 on your account isn't adding to insult to injury, I don't know what is. If they'd given you a £10 refund, you'd have had it in your hand, but by putting it on your account, they've only given away £5. It's annoying when you end up feeling cheated, but unless you're prepared to fork out another £100 for a better spec, then I suspect you've got the best you're going to get, but I'd be inclined to pass the matter on to trading standards, as I think it's close to sharp practice the way it's been handled
 
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Cheers! That's how I felt, but I'll see how I get on with TS or whatever they are called these days.
 
Thanks. Slightly better MoBo and slightly bigger SSD but otherwise the same, albeit having a best buy.
 
And of course the caveat is that they put the prices up leading up to Black friday, and then reduce them at Christmas
 
Why an external HDD? Surely an internal one will be faster?

You've pretty much chosen your supplier, but for future, or other people's reference, I've always been very pleased with the refurbished Dells sold by Europc.

And this site an excellent source of info and reviews of monitors: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk
 
Thanks, Ban.
I did plump for an internal one in the end.
The idea behind an external one was that it would be easy to port around.
I was going to store all my music on it but now if I want to do that, I'll put it on a high-cap usb stick.
 
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