Since about 7 years, something very ugly happened on the PSU market. Base units available for 15-25 quid have become downsized, leaned way too much or just designed to cheat. I suppose this is deliberate, in order to extort premium cash for an average, proper unit.
The components I suggested are actually picked very carefully in another forum I go to, there is reason or more likely three, for every penny spent. The general consensus is 1) function, 2) price 3) design - the case, for what it's worth, is a prime example of a good deal. That includes relatively sturdy materials and good build quality. For sure its nothing like Zalman. It's soundproofed and that has pros and cons too plus some suprising effects e.g. impact on HDD choice; some people like the integrated card reader, some find two front USB 3.0 ports essential (of course you need a board to support both of them). Be careful if the door swivel is ok, there's no choice of left/right.
I agree 100% with the WIN-10 conversion plan and did the same in the extended family. Based on my limited experience of about 6 machines, and especially time-to-result (!!): if CCleaner had been run on a machine that started playing up later, I would only touch it with a reinstall W10 ISO.
FYI I still have a hunch that you'd do really well with i3 (2+2 cores) machine. The whole setup would look significantly different then, approximately 270 quid. Yet, apart from answering the question from the previous page, to put forward a smart combination one piece of information is missing: how's your hearing?
Last edited by FlightDetent; 31st May 2016 at 11:06.