Yeah, time management sucks - I wish I was better at it as well! I usually either have work that needs to be done or long-term stuff (planning, making appointments, studying) and I find myself putting off the long-term stuff as long as I possibly can if it's unpleasant. Not a very sustainable way to approach things!!
I've read about and tried out a few time management advice things in my time, but guess what - you need to plan to do those as well! Is that pleasant?? No! So I struggle to carry those out for very long. Oh well. I'm going to start studying for my German bar exam soon, which is going to take some planning, since the actual exams are two years away - so I'm going to have to figure out something!!
But heey, I remember being one of those people who cared about hardware! Even suggested your PC in 2017, if I remember correctly ^^
In my personal estimation, switching to SSD will significantly improve things for you. It's like night and day. I've known people with pretty old machines or laptops who have had vastly better experiences after installing SSDs. If you wanted to, and could exclude your CPU being the problem, you could try switching out your drive for an SSD on your current machine (this should be dead easy to do) but I'm assuming you want to go for that whole psychological appeal of the new computer thing ^^
So a new machine is not a bad idea! £2000 pounds should have you covered. Considering that you're now into some more CPU-intensive stuff as well (rather than mostly VR-gaming, back in 2017) you'd want to be covered on that front too.
Taking to Amazon get you something like this -[LINK] would have you covered easily. 10-core(!) Intel processor, 32 GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, and RTX 3070 GPU. On the higher end of what you'd need, but that seems to be what you're going for! Amazon has a ton of similar PCs, this one even lets you customise some of the components to see what you can get for a given price point.
Alternatively, if you want to go for something fancier, there's always Dell: [LINK] which is quite a bit more expensive, but has a top of the line processor as well as what we can assume would be better support.
If you want something less gaming-branded (perish the thought!) Dell has a website "for businesses" also, where they have a somewhat better selection (prices shown are without VAT though, so you'd have to factor that in). This [LINK] one, I would imagine, would present a nice middle ground. 1GB SSD and HDD, 32 GB RAM, great processor and GPU as well. It's still not as expensive for what you get as, say, the Alienware one - all that RGB lighting must weigh quite heavily on the price!
It's tough to say how many empty SATA (Hard drive) slots any given prebuilt has, since it's rarely stated, and prebuilts don't usually come with more than two drives. That's something where you're venturing into build-your-own PC territory. If you just want extra storage but don't care about having it at high speeds, you can always buy an external hard drive (which you might even be able to use your current drive with) which is fairly inexpensive. GPU is something you can switch out fairly easily if you want, often all it takes is a screwdriver to open the case and unscrew the old one, though this may depend on the case.
Though I'd be happy to answer any other questions about components and the like!
I've read about and tried out a few time management advice things in my time, but guess what - you need to plan to do those as well! Is that pleasant?? No! So I struggle to carry those out for very long. Oh well. I'm going to start studying for my German bar exam soon, which is going to take some planning, since the actual exams are two years away - so I'm going to have to figure out something!!
But heey, I remember being one of those people who cared about hardware! Even suggested your PC in 2017, if I remember correctly ^^
In my personal estimation, switching to SSD will significantly improve things for you. It's like night and day. I've known people with pretty old machines or laptops who have had vastly better experiences after installing SSDs. If you wanted to, and could exclude your CPU being the problem, you could try switching out your drive for an SSD on your current machine (this should be dead easy to do) but I'm assuming you want to go for that whole psychological appeal of the new computer thing ^^
So a new machine is not a bad idea! £2000 pounds should have you covered. Considering that you're now into some more CPU-intensive stuff as well (rather than mostly VR-gaming, back in 2017) you'd want to be covered on that front too.
Taking to Amazon get you something like this -[LINK] would have you covered easily. 10-core(!) Intel processor, 32 GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, and RTX 3070 GPU. On the higher end of what you'd need, but that seems to be what you're going for! Amazon has a ton of similar PCs, this one even lets you customise some of the components to see what you can get for a given price point.
Alternatively, if you want to go for something fancier, there's always Dell: [LINK] which is quite a bit more expensive, but has a top of the line processor as well as what we can assume would be better support.
If you want something less gaming-branded (perish the thought!) Dell has a website "for businesses" also, where they have a somewhat better selection (prices shown are without VAT though, so you'd have to factor that in). This [LINK] one, I would imagine, would present a nice middle ground. 1GB SSD and HDD, 32 GB RAM, great processor and GPU as well. It's still not as expensive for what you get as, say, the Alienware one - all that RGB lighting must weigh quite heavily on the price!
It's tough to say how many empty SATA (Hard drive) slots any given prebuilt has, since it's rarely stated, and prebuilts don't usually come with more than two drives. That's something where you're venturing into build-your-own PC territory. If you just want extra storage but don't care about having it at high speeds, you can always buy an external hard drive (which you might even be able to use your current drive with) which is fairly inexpensive. GPU is something you can switch out fairly easily if you want, often all it takes is a screwdriver to open the case and unscrew the old one, though this may depend on the case.
Though I'd be happy to answer any other questions about components and the like!