Potential new PC

[JoeGBradford]

I mentioned a potential SCAN spec a while back but had no responses - as it turns out I am now favouring sticking with Chillblast who built my current PC which has been very reliable but is not Win 11 compliant and at 10 or 11 years old is due for replacement.  Chillblast have the advantage of a 5 year guarantee. My current PC is an i5 with 8Gb RAM which I have managed with to date but it has not been intensively used with Cakewalk and has managed most things I have tried to do with it. I only work with midi so no live recording. Chillblast has suggested a music production / light gaming spec as shown below. It has an M2 system drive but, on the advice of a friend, I am considering upgrading the data drive (which will have my samples and instrument sample sets) to M2 as well. I have been reading though that M2 makes little difference to sample time loading or performance. Does anyone have a view on this, or on the spec as a whole? Thanks in anticipation
 

1x Fractal Design Meshify 2 Mini TG Case - Black
1x Asus PRIME B660M-A WIFI D4 Motherboard
1x Intel Core i7-12700 CPU, 12 Cores* / 20 Threads, 2.1 -4.9GHz
1x 32GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory (2 x 16GB Sticks)
1x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB Graphics Card
1x 1TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2 PCIe Gen 4 Solid State Drive
1x Corsair RM850X 80 PLUS Gold 850W PSU
1x Windows 11 Home

2x Noctua NF-A14 PWM Chromax Black 140mm Fan
1x Noctua NF-S12A PWM Chromax Black 120mm Fan
1x Noctua NH-D15S Chromax Black CPU Cooler - Full Custom Air Cooling setup. 
1x 2TB Samsung 870 QVO Solid State Drive
1x 5 Years Warranty (3 Years Onsite & 2 Years Labour) UK Mainland Only*

 

[Starship Krupa]

It will definitely handle everything you throw at it.

Good heavens, they consider a rocket sled like that with an RTX 3060 to be a "light" gaming rig?

Since M2 SSD's come in at around the same price as SATA, I'd say go for it.

[JoeGBradford]

Thanks - I ordered it on Friday - with a bigger case & mobo to accommodate up to three M2s rather than the two that this mobo takes