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I have 2 SSDs partitions and a NVME (as the C and D drive) plus an old 1TB HDD, thank God.

This home built PC has the Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6 GHz (OC to 4.) was when these prices could be had (this rig is a little different) about 2 years ago :

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor ($98.90 @ OutletPC)

Motherboard : MSI B450-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard ($84.89 @ OutletPC)

Memory : Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($59.99 @ Amazon)

Storage : Team GX2 256 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($29.99 @ Newegg)

Power Supply EVGA 400 W ATX Power Supply ($32.89 @ OutletPC)

Wireless Network Adapter : TP-Link TL-WN881ND PCIe x1 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter ($14.99 @ Amazon)

Case Fan : Silverstone FN121-P-BL 58.47 CFM 120 mm Fan ($6.12 @ Amazon)

Case Fan : Insignia NS-PCF8050 23.96 CFM 80 mm Fan ($3.99 @ Amazon)

Total: $331.76

Nice arrangement you put together! I assembled my own desktops from 2000-2014. My 2014 desktop had 16gb mem and a Pentium Haswell CPU with Passmark rating of 3000. 512 GB Silicon Power SSD also. But it pooped out before Christmas. Actually I damaged it via some stupidity.

I was going to build another Comp but CPU prices were too high. So I caved and bought an HP with 8Gb mem/Optane/1TB hard drive. It has a very strong i5-8400 which is almost 10,000 on Passmark. Got on sale from VIP Outlet for about 230$. Its a refurb or a Walmart overstock. But sold as refurb. Minimal extra PCI slots but I like that it is small and light.

So all I really need is an extra 8GB mem which is arriving tomorrow. Cost me 32$ from Amazon. Was the cheapest they had that had good ratings. Of course I bought RAM that matched what the HP came with. Yeah. I know this is not a legit pair and will not work for dual channel. Can't have everything. So total cost was $265 or so. I partitioned the 1TB 7200RPM hard drive. Thus I have a separate Windows OS partition that I can wipe and do a fresh Windows install every two years. Wipe after saving important files onto the large storage partition.

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WHAT HP DESKTOP I BOUGHT AT CHRISTMAS 2020. Was on sale.

https://vipoutlet.com/product/hp-pavilion-590-p0053w-intel-i5-8400-8gb-ram-16gb-intel-optane-1tb-hdd-windows-10-home-2/

HP 590-p0053w Pavilion i5-8400 2.8GHz 8GB RAM 1TB HDD Win 10 Home Silver/Black

Another good refurb from VIP. Just add 8GB Mem. This one was also on sale last Chritmas. Has Optane to goose the hard drive at least on reads.
https://vipoutlet.com/product/hp-pavilion-590-p0033w-desktop-intel-i3-8100-intel-uhd-graphics-630-1tb-storage-4gb-memory-2/