Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
Gordon.

Would be interested to know how many m2/nvme ssd drives and the config your considering.
Ive found its like pulling hens teeth to find out often on the normal retail pc;s..
what pcie version they are running. Whether pcie 3 or 4 or 5 etc.

I'll likely have two, mostly for capacity rather than speed.

The problem with an awful lot of pre-built PCs is that the sales people really don't know some of these details. There are a couple of reasons for that:

1) Often they don't really know what the question really means.

2) Often, even when they do know what it means, they're unable or unwilling to say because the company reserves the right to change the motherboard for a different one without warning. "Policy of continuous improvement", which could cover performance, costs, or supply issues.

The reason I tend to end up building my own, is that I can make my own choices of tradeoffs, I'm not reliant of the vagaries of the vendors. The other alternative is to ask a builder you trust to specify & build a machine to your requirements. That isn't necessarily more expensive than off-the-shelf, because you probably don't need, for example, a huge, ultra-fast and shockingly expensive gaming graphics card, which most will put into their higher-end machines.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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