I decided that it was time to upgrade my primary box at the back end of 2021, it had served me well for over 5 years but it was starting to show its age- only 16GB RAM, 2.5" SSD and an i7 with 4/8 cores at 2.4G. Certainly not slow, but not as good as it could be. This was a machine I'd built myself and I was happy to do so again, but thought I'd have a look at what the market could offer pre-built. Most of the options I could find were either marginal improvements to what I had or stupidly expensive and I was pretty much ready to press the button on the compnents when I stumbled on PC Specialist. The array of configuration options, including an option to exclude a graphic card (my Nvidia NVS 810 is still all I need), was exceptional and allowed me to build a truly future-proof machine. An i9 chip with 18/36 cores, 256GB on DDR4-3000 RAM, RAID 1 1TB M.2 SSDs for my system partition and RAID 1 6TB 2.5" SSDs for my data as a spec you just can't find in many places, and the price was worryingly close to what I could find the components for myself online.
Ordering was easy, comms from PC Specialist were frequent, detailed and accurate and my new box arrived a couple of days ago... and it's incredible. The quality of the build is super high, you can tell it's been put together by people who know their job and take a pride in doing it.
The only downside? With the spec I've put into this rig it's going to be a fair while before I need to use these guys again, but I know where I'm coming when I do need to!
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