Everything we supply

Kingston

Kingston NV3 1TB NVMe

Value M.2 NVMe drive. Enough for the operating system and a working set of games.

TP-Link

TP-Link TL-SG108E 8-Port Gigabit Easy Smart Switch

Eight gigabit ports with VLAN, QoS and IGMP snooping in a fanless metal case. The usual starting point when a flat home network needs segmenting without moving to a full managed stack.

DeepCool

DeepCool PN750M 750W Gold

Fully modular 750 W ATX 3.1 unit. A sensible match for mid-range gaming builds.

Western Digital

Western Digital WD Red Plus 8TB NAS HDD (WD80EFPX)

Eight terabytes of CMR NAS storage rated for 180 TB a year and continuous operation. CMR rather than SMR is the point: shingled drives behave badly during a RAID rebuild, which is exactly when you need them not to.

Lian Li

Lian Li O11D EVO RGB Mid-Tower

Dual-chamber showcase case with wide radiator support and room for the longest cards. The usual choice for builds meant to be looked at.

Unverified: Full motherboard form factor list not stated by the retailer

AMD

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Eight-core AM5 processor with stacked cache. Aimed at high-framerate gaming, where cache-sensitive titles benefit most.

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Kit (8GB)

A complete Pi 5 desktop in one box: board, case, official keyboard and mouse, 27 W supply, both HDMI cables, a preloaded microSD card and the beginner guide. Connect a monitor and it runs.

Unverified: The bundled microSD card is listed as carrying the 32-bit OS image. Confirm which image actually ships before advising a customer who wants 64-bit.

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 5 / 4GB

The 4 GB Pi 5. Enough for Pi-hole, Home Assistant, a print server or a light Docker host. It needs a power supply, storage and cooling, none of which are in the box.

Western Digital

Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850X 1TB NVMe

Fast M.2 NVMe drive with a DRAM cache. A good single-drive boot and game library option.

Corsair

Corsair FRAME 4000D RS

Mid-tower with a high-airflow panel and a clean cable channel. A dependable default for most builds.

GIGABYTE

GIGABYTE BRIX Intel N150 Barebones

A barebones x86 mini PC with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth already fitted. Barebones means no memory, no drive and no operating system, so budget for all three; the payoff is choosing them yourself.

Unverified: Memory and storage slot counts, supported capacities and port layout were not stated in the retailer listing. Confirm from the GIGABYTE spec sheet before advising on an upgrade.

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 5 / 8GB

The 8 GB Pi 5, and the version to pick if it will run several containers at once or double as a small desktop. Roughly three times the CPU throughput of a Pi 4.

ASUS

ASUS ROG STRIX B850-I GAMING WIFI

Mini-ITX AM5 board for compact builds. Two memory slots, dense layout, PCIe 5.0 graphics slot.

Unverified: SATA port count not stated by the retailer

DeepCool

DeepCool PN850M 850W Gold

Fully modular 850 W ATX 3.1 unit, sized for builds with a higher-power graphics card.

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Active Cooler for Raspberry Pi 5

Clip-on aluminium heatsink with a temperature-controlled blower. A Pi 5 under sustained load will throttle without active cooling, so treat this as part of the board rather than an extra.

Microsoft

Microsoft Windows 11 Pro

Windows 11 Pro licence. Adds BitLocker, Remote Desktop host and domain join, the usual requirements for a work machine.

Unverified: Price is a placeholder. OEM licence cost depends on your Microsoft reseller account, not retail.

TP-Link

TP-Link TL-SG108PE 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Easy Smart Switch

The same eight gigabit ports as the SG108E, with four of them supplying PoE+ across a 64 W budget. Enough to run a pair of access points and a couple of cameras without separate power bricks.

Gigabyte

Gigabyte B860 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 ICE

ATX LGA1851 board with Wi-Fi 7 and three M.2 slots, for mid-range Intel Core Ultra builds.

Unverified: SATA port count not stated by the retailer

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5

Brings the Pi 5 PCIe lane out to an M.2 slot, so an NVMe drive can replace the microSD card as the boot device. Around 500 MB/s, and a far longer service life than a card under constant writes.

AMD

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Six-core AM5 processor for 1080p and 1440p gaming. A sensible floor for a new system that still leaves an upgrade path on the AM5 socket.

Intel

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Flagship LGA1851 processor for workstation duty: simulation, rendering and large compile jobs.

SAPPHIRE

SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB

AMD 1440p and 4K card with 16 GB of memory and a triple-fan cooler. The value choice at this tier.

Unverified: Board power taken from the AMD reference figure

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 27W USB-C Power Delivery Supply

The official 27 W supply. A Pi 5 raises its own USB port budget from roughly 600 mA to 1.6 A only when it detects a PD supply of this class, so a generic charger quietly costs you peripheral power.

Seagate

Seagate IronWolf 4TB NAS HDD (ST4000VN006)

Four terabytes rated for 24/7 NAS duty, with three years of Rescue data recovery included. A reasonable capacity per dollar for a first two-bay mirror.