My Current Computers

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PCSPECIALIST Icon 211 Gaming PC

2024 Nov 23 - Win11 (£699) 
DISPLAY: iiyama G-Master Black Hawk 24.5" Full HD Monitor 1920x1080 (£102.66 CCL Oct 2020)
CPU: AMD® Ryzen5-5500 (5th Gen) - 3.6 GHz hexa core (overclocked 4.25 GHz) 19 MB cache
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS PRIME A520M-A II/CSM - MicroATX (smaller than 2020 build)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance (3600 MHz) (inc 16 GB RAM from 2020 build)
STORAGE: 1 TB SSD
External (2020) Seagate FireCuda 510 500GB M.2-2280 SSD (£83.99 CCL Oct 2020)
External (2020) Pioneer 500GB NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Gen 3x4 Internal SSD (£60.99 Amazon Oct 2020)
External (2019) Silicon Power SSD 512GB 3D NAND A55 SLC Cache Perf Boost 2.5 inch SATA III (£42.99 Amazon Jun 2019)
GRAPHICS: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 - 8 GB GDDR6 (large improvement on 2020 build)
Bluetooth 5.3 - WiFi 6E 

Novabench Score: CPU 1393, RAM 363, GPU 482, DISK 322
CrystalDiskMark: Read 3668 / Write 2801 MB/s

desktop gaming pc 2024
PCSPECIALIST Icon 211 Gaming PC - AMD Ryzen 5, RTX 3050, 1 TB SSD
PCSPECIALIST Icon 211 Gaming PC - AMD Ryzen 5, RTX 3050, 1 TB SSD
PCSPECIALIST Icon 211 Gaming PC - AMD Ryzen 5, RTX 3050, 1 TB SSD
PCSPECIALIST Icon 211 Gaming PC - AMD Ryzen 5, RTX 3050, 1 TB SSD
Lenovo Yoga 7i 16" - Two-in-One Laptop

(Arctic Grey) 2022 Oct 29 - Win11 (£1,049) - Upgrades £98 (2022 Nov)
DISPLAY: 16" 2560x1600 touch
CPU: Intel® i7-1260P (12th Gen) - 3.4 GHz 12- core (4.70 GHz turbo)
RAM: 16GB (2 x 8GB 4800 LPDDR5)
STORAGE: M.2 SSD 1 TB  NVMe Gen4 (£98) was M.2 SSD 512 GB (replaced 2022 Nov)
GRAPHICS: Intel® Iris® Xᵉ Graphics

Novabench Score: CPU 1890 , RAM 257 , GPU 355, DISK 270 - with SSD upgrade
CrystalDiskMark: Read 6032 / Write 5038
pre-upgrade: Read 1074 / Write 1036

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Lenovo Yoga 7i 16" - Two-in-One Laptop
Lenovo Yoga 7i 16" - Two-in-One Laptop
Lenovo Yoga 7i 16" - Two-in-One Laptop
Lenovo Yoga 7i 16" - Two-in-One Laptop
2014 Jan - Zoostorm PC (Mum's PC)
2022 Nov - Upgraded RAM & HD
OS: Windows 10

2014 Jan - Win7 (£250) upgraded to Win10 - Upgrades £23 (2022 Nov)
CPU: Intel® Celeron G1620 (3rd Gen) - 2.69 GHz dual core
RAM: 8GB - 2 x 4GB DDR3-1600 (max 16GB) (upgraded from DDR3-1333 2022 Nov)
STORAGE: 480GB SSD (from another PC) was HDD 500GB 5400rpm (replaced 2022 Nov)
GRAPHICS: Intel® HD

Novabench Score: CPU 251 , RAM 190 , GPU 107, DISK 48 - after upgrades
CrystalDiskMark: Read 283 / Write 261

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