al wrote:

I can put together a system myself no problem. Just don't have the
experience knowing what works well together and what will land nicely in a
case to make a good neat design!

Google groups is your friend here - shortlist your components then
search for the issues people are having with them.

Much of the extra performance will come from a bit of planning in the
setup. For example making sure that the windows swap file is on a
different physical drive to the rest of the OS. Partitioning large
drives to keep management of data simpler and also keeping the size of
partitions under the size of the backup medium available etc.


--
Cheers,

John.

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