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Hi John,
If the purpose of the PC is planetary imaging, you may wsh to consider a decent laptop instead.
Couple of reasons :
1. You will most likely be sitting next to your scope for planetary capture, as you will need to keep the planet within a very small region-of-interest (RoI) within the main sensor of whatever video capture camera you have on hand. A smaller RoI will maximise your frame rate to benefit from lucky imaging. Any polar alignment error will require constant re-centering (if not a search to find the planet again within a field of view that is only an arcmin or so).
2. Capturing high frame rates will be easier with a dedicated high capacity SSD drive (or better still, NVME drive) attached to motherboard rather than via USB cable. Laptops may offer such facility with higher internal bus speed capability than a Mele Quieter 4C. I have such a Mele unit, dedicated to deep sky imaging but have not tried it for planetary due to reason 1 above.... a screen is required to so that you can re-center the planet via keypad controller.
Good luck
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