All that will do you nicely. Only thing I’d consider upgrading would be the power supply to something over 1000w, but that’s up to you.
Without wanting to wade too much into this discussion, thought leadership as a term can vary from industry to industry. In my field it can also mean mentoring to a degree - advising less experienced people on where they should be spending their time (emerging technologies, how to navigate tricky client scenarios, etc.) or writing articles on changes in the industry.
While I do relatively next to nothing all day and somehow get away with it, I am honestly impressed by a lot of my peers who do actual work and the stuff they come out with - I’m definitely in the slacker zone, but that’s OK as it actually has zero impact on any real thing in the real world anyway. It’s all just a bunch of people doing stuff in order to avoid conflict or get in trouble.
Thank you again Ciaran.
Would a “Corsair 1000W RMx Series Modular 80 plus gold, Ultra quiet” be okay? After that, price goes up £62 for a 1200W from the 1000W. I also got a discount code I forgot to apply and that would pretty much cover the upgrade to 1000w
Yep, 1000W would do. I had a similar Corsair PSU some years back, it worked well. The main reason I suggest it is for future upgrades and adding things like a second GPU, more hard drives (not SSD), extra hardware, etc. Chances are you will never need it though - in my experience, a build I got a while ago only had a 850w power supply, which means I can’t put a 2nd GPU in there.
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1000w, what? PSU requirements have went down a lot in the last 5-10 years and you rarely see a 1000w PSU in a build. it’s a 3700x and 3050 which would be considered midrange hardware: a 3700x under load should be somewhere in the range of 90w, and a 3050 full load is around 250w, so cpu and gpu is pulling 340w. even factoring in drive overheads etc, a 600w would be more than plenty for his machine letalone the 750 it comes with. Adding a second GPU would be pointless as nvidia basically killed SLI support for the 3xxx series (though SLI/2 cards died long before that), and I doubt monkeybrains would benefit from 2 gpu’s regardless as iirc his use case was editing 1080p video etc.
My only gripe with that build above is the fact they’ve gave it 2400MHz memory when 3rd gen Ryzen can do 3200MHz or slightly higher which is a nice performance bump, but that’s being a bit nitpicky and the machine itself will be fine for @monkeybrains use case.
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I’m just waiting to hear back from the shop about the discount code and see what they say. I understand that the 750w will be fine if I don’t upgrade.
depends on your definition of upgrade, even if you wanted a better gpu ie a 3070, a 750w is still enough for that.
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I got a HP Z840 workstation from work a couple of weeks back, it’s such a high-spec machine and they were chucking them out.
Big companies operate in strange ways !
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lucky bugger, whats in it? dual e5 xeons i’m guessing?
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I’ll boot it up and take a look at the specs later for you, but yep, definitely lucky. Got 2 HP Z440s on the same day, sort of swimming in equipment now, ha.
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Envy is an understatement, reminds me of my pal who had an apprenticeship with some IT company, got taken on full time and ended up in charge of maintenance/disposal of machines/hardware. 2 years later he’s got 2 full server racks and numerous other bits and bobs for next to nothing.
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Yep, I stand by that, haha! Like I said, I was talking from my experience and that it would be a fairly unnecessary upgrade for Monkeybrains. My last machine had 3 x GPUs (2 x TitanX, 1 x 1080Ti) for 3D rendering in Redshift, so I needed the 1500w PSU, SLI doesn’t do a thing with 3D rendering in Redshift/Octane/Cycles/Arnold, etc.
My current PC has 850W with an RTX 3090 - pretty sure I can’t get any of my old GPUs in there to speed up rendering as I’d need to upgrade the PSU, which having done so before, is a ballache.
You’re right about the 2400Mhz RAM though, should try to upgrade that if possible.
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I’ll stick with the 750w as can’t see me updating anything.
Just wanted to say a mega thank you Ciaron, dontcomply and anyone else that has helped. Have had no clue on these new set ups and been a minefield trying to find out what I need. The more I read elsewhere, the more confused I got. You guys explained everything perfect and I’m happy knowing what I’ll be getting.
Thanks again!! 
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Yeah fairs if that’s your use case scenario/heater for the winter, I just hate seeing people when they build/upgrade PC’s spend money on stuff they don’t need (aka my friend who for whatever reason put a 2600 on a pricey ROG Strix board, ran it with 2133MHz RAM and then put a 360mm EK AIO on it…). If you wanted to get real janky with it and happen to have a spare PSU you can always jump 2 pins on the second PSU with a paperclip and use that to power extra gpu’s. Adapters for that kinda shit exist:
Wouldn’t be the prettiest thing in the world by any stretch of the imagination, but atleast it’d show you if throwing the extra GPU’s in would be worth a full on PSU upgrade and swap.
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Yep, janky is the perfect word for that! TBH, I don’t think I can get running 3 or more GPUs on an X570 motherboard - but even 2 would be nice. I have a BeQuiet PSU in there and AFAIK, I can upgrade the unit without recabling it. Eventually!
No probs, always keen to chat shit about things like this!
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I used to work at Orange before it became everything every where and I was basically the backup dude that could edit the internal company website. So me and the main dude used to share some work (but remember it was just one dude doing it before I started) and we used to just piss about. We were the only dudes in like 11k people that knew how to edit the front-page and we couldn’t go on holiday at same time or anything. Honestly got so bored there was going insane. Also we were told if anyone asked us to do anything, say it wasn’t possible or we were to busy
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Cheers man, I’ll give you a shout again in a few years, for my next set up 
Thank you again!!
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I was working for a “dot com” in 2000 and there were 6 or so of us doing data input, gathering product info from online stores for our price comparison site (that never took off as the owner died in a helicopter crash - not that it would have been successfull anyway), used to get the work done in the first hour, then we’d play over a network Midtown Madness, Counterstrike etc. for the rest of the day. That actually got pretty tiring at times, so we’d also be downloading stuff of Napster, Limewire etc, even bought zip drive, specifically to bring into work.
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