Desktop decisions - advice welcomed!

[lnr]

Mike has bought himself a new shiny desktop, and now I'm looking at what to do with what we've still got in the house, or whether to buy in an entire new machine.

I'm currently running a 4th gen i7, with a Radeon GT1030 and 12GB of memory, and a 512MB SSD. But the motherboard and processor and some of the memory technically still belong to work.

I was thinking of migrating my computer's brain into Mike's old machine, but it turns out that's a 3rd gen i7, so less good, though it has a Radeon GTX1070 instead, so much better graphics. I could probably get some performance improvement by sticking that in my chassis (*if* it has enough power) and seeing if I can up the memory too.

Or I could spend 900 quid on a 10th gen i7 system from Dell with the Radeon GTX 1650 super, it only comes with 8GB of memory but that's on one DIMM so almost certainly possible to add more from our stock.

Have decided against spending a small fortune on the shiny gaming PCs they also have available, as I'm just not enough into ALL THE POWER, and mostly it would just be nice to have something that actually belongs to me and can at some point do Windows 11, which neither of the existing i7s are new enough for.

The 900 quid Dell Inspiron is looking quite tempting. Anyone want to suggest other ideas?

Comments

[damerell]

Take what you can find; between the plague, the global semiconductor shortage, fucking Brexit, and the damned cryptocurrency cultists, stocks of everything are limited.

FWIW at work we have found Scan relatively good at telling us what they have in stock and telling the truth about it. Dell also not too bad.

[lnr]

I would be glad to see the back of the crypto cult. A new machine with lots of memory and Mike's old card is what I've gone for, for just under 850, and should be here in a couple of weeks. I should be able to do a GPU update in a couple of years if prices get more sensible, or probably even if they don't but we've not just spent loads on other things :)