New PC incoming.

Yer, bookmarked that Win10 tidbit a whiles ago e but probbly cos I couldn't be arsed with installing it myself and other reasons decided to pay the nice man to do it instead. Then, at least in theory, I will get a fully working and fully tested new PC that should work somewhat as I would wish, straight out of the box. That's a big win for me. I am going to have enough trouble just acclimatising to Win10 and adjusting it to taste.

I am hoping I can successfully get all the good stuff from old to new too.  It will help a lot if I can. Never done nowt like it afore. External HDD+usb cable came this a.m. Too scared to plug it in yet in case it leaks...or something .

Thought long and hard about whether I really wanted to game on PC empty and the answer was no. The incoming integrated Intel gpu is way better than the outgoing card that is in my old machine and that is already quite capable of taking care of any thing the Internet has to throw at it. 
 
I was sorely tempted for a moment to get something that would play Assetto Corsa at the maximum capabilities of my current slightly weird 1920x1200 monitor. But, to ensure even that I would need better and therefore more expensive stuff throughout the build plus the additional properly-capable-of-doing-the-job graphics card at around £240. Couldn't justify it all in the end plus I'd sooner play games with ma buds on P.s. init

Watching F.o.S live on Youtube at the mo. 1080 @30fps broadcast. Best I have seen it do a fullscreen on youtube. All without a GPU shock horror!.

Lots to do and tune yet but some noticeable successes so far. Got my passwords and old emails back. Still have not attempted transfer of old files from external HDD doodad to the new PC.

New PC is much quieter than old despite having many more fans. Nice and snappy too and unstressed by my sloppy browsing habits so far. There's not much in the nice case for the dough (I kinda noticed) but it's all good quality gear that should ensure I don't have to go through this palaver ever again . Something I wish I knew when I ordered the PC was that the CPU I eventually chose was bad value for money/performance, as it goes. The only other concern is only springing for that one and only 500GB SSD (no HDD) but adding another SSD later when it gets cheaper is a faff I can probably manage.

So far so good. Tidy install from www.scan.co.uk

Sounds good T. If you were using google you can import your bookmarks that way? And I'm not that all clued up on cpu but the one you have sounds good. And I wouldn't buy another ssd until you need one. They've been coming down in price a lot in the last 18 months or so and will continue to do so. I bet you are noticing the difference from the hdd. The performance upgrade you get from an ssd is huge for ya buck. I got my previous employer to replace the hdd in my pc to an ssd as I argued it would be a lot more efficient. The boot up times in the morning went from 15 mins to 2 mins. Glad it's going okay so far!!