The mouse, keyboard, and monitor are the items with which you interact, and thus deserve the most attention.
I’m not familiar with either but they look pretty standard.
This looks fine but I am concerned about your attitude to it. You really need to have a really good think about your primary means of interaction with the PC.
I don’t agree, especially about the mouse and keyboard. Yes, you should buy a good monitor, because you probably won’t replace it unless it’s really bad. But the mouse and keyboard cost, generally, under a hundred bucks. And they’re easily replaceable by any user. So if you replace them later, it’s not a big deal. (On the other hand, you can’t easily upgrade or replace the video card, processor, motherboard or hard drive. So you’re stuck with those once you get the system.)
No, I don’t think you’re not getting yourself confused; I think you’re getting your priorities wrong. Your demands on the computer are quite light. When you use your computer you interact using the monitor, keyboard and mouse. You do not want eye strain or RSI. (Been there, spotted symptoms in time to prevent damage.) You want a keyboard and mouse that are good to use - and FWIW I’d suggest a trackball rather than a mouse. Further, you want the best colour rendition that your budget allows.
The computer looks fine Cicero. It’s a bit overkill but it ought to work fine for the next four years. Personally, I’d rather have two identical harddrives than one solid state and one regular but your set up wil work too.
Keyboard & mouse are personal things. Maybe you’ll like them, maybe you won’t. No way to find out until you try them. You should consider a bigger monitor though, or a several monitor set up. That machine is more than powerful enough for a bigger display.
Thanks folks forall your input. SCR 4, I would think that is what the SSD is for given the other drive is 1 TB.
Merneith, thanks as well. The thing is customable so I can get a different monitor if I want. I only have a 19 inch one at present so the bigger one will probably seem huge anyway.
As for the mouse and keyboard- I’ve always just used what has been available and never given them a great deal of thought so again these will probably seem like luxury.
I’d definitely urge you to choose a high-quality monitor. Preferably one that has an IPS panel. Last year I bought a dirt-cheap 24" monitor thinking it would be serviceable as a second screen; it was worse than useless, it was almost painful to use. (The view angle was so narrow that I had to move my head around to read the whole screen.)
Typically the (small) ssd is used to host the OS and a the most frequently used apps. Will greatly decrease boot times and coupled with the 8 gigs of ram you should experience very snappy overall system response.
Namely loading programs and alt-tabbing out of full screen games and such.
Yeah, but with the computer Cicero describes, boot time and alt-tabbing shouldn’t be a problem whether he uses a SSD drive or not. I mean, ssd’s nice and all, I’m just not convinced they’re really a bang-for-the-buck component. I’d rather put the money in either 16gb of RAM or a 30" monitor.