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CPU: Intel i5-12600K Motherboard: Asrock Industrial IMB-X1314 W680 RAM: 2x32GB Kingston DDR4-3200 ECC UDIMM Boot Drive: 32GB Intel Optane H10 Storage Drives: 6x12TB Seagate X16 in RAID Z1 (52TB usable) GPU: Gigabyte RTX 4060 Low Profile Case: Nordic Design Treasure (Taobao Import) Power Supply...

Clearing out some old parts and figured I'd post them on here. Open to local pickup, bundling preferred, shipping included in price unless otherwise noted. Can provide pictures on request. Intel i7-6700k: Purchased this in someone else's build for my partner and ran with it for a while...

Looks like they finally officially launched the card. Slightly cut down from 3060-tier, with half the ram (6 GB). On the plus side it doesn't require external power. No word on pricing yet, though. ETA: From the Anandtech piece, looks like MSRP is $450. Shockingly low, though who knows if it'll...

The WX 2100, 3100, and 4100 all fit (single-slot low-profile workstation cards). MSI has a low-profile, single-slot RX 550 with a dual-slot cooler. They also have a low-profile, dual-slot RX 560 which is rare as hen's teeth and bordering on insultingly expensive for a 560, even used. VisionTek...

The Asrock looks the best to me. Not the Asus because it only has a single HDMI display output (limiting if you ever want to throw another monitor on there), and no USB C. It does have a second m.2 slot, which is nice, but it doesn't look like it works with APUs, so it's not of any use to you...

This seems like a kludgy solution and I'm unsure what the problem they think they're solving is. Is it making their NUCs repairable and upgradable? If so, sticking with more standard parts (like a socketed CPU and an STX-sized motherboard with a PCIe slot) would have made more sense. Is it...

For the Blu-Ray drive it's worth seeing if you can find a LibreDrive-compatable unit, which makes ripping UHD disks possible. I've always found the Blu-Ray player apps for computers to be lackluster compared to the experience playing back DVDs, and it's nice to have the option to just rip the...

This all looks good to me. I'm not sure about the specific cooler location questions (besides that I think the only place a 240 mm rad will fit is on the side panel), but I do want to reassure you that a 650 W PSU will be overkill, if anything. For that build I'd probably go with the Corsair...

So I'm plotting my next build (tentatively with a 8700k and a WX 4100), and I've been thinking about the possibilities that a Meanwell PSU would open up. I've always been interested in Streacom's smaller options, especially the F7C. I don't have a need for more GPU power than a low-profile...

God bless Larry for underrating things.

What's the peak wattage of the HDplex 80 W? You'd want to make sure there was at least 5 W for the circuitry of the enclosure itself and 15 W for power delivery back to the laptop.

That strikes me as a solid division. I like the internal PSU on the low-profile card, too, especially because it'll make it a hell of a lot easier to transport. For the full-height version I think SFX is probably the best idea, just because they're around the same price at the same efficiency...

It's definitely a niche product, but I feel like there's a market for it. There are mass-market enclosures that are in that price range. The Razer Core X is like $300, and the Chroma version is $100 more. A well-designed ~$150-$200 chassis that used a mass-market ~$200 Thunderbolt 3 enclosure as...

Yeah that's definitely fair. Are you thinking 75w cards or more power than that?

I think there's an underserved market for a short-ish eGPU case that uses a A4-like layout but cut down a little bit. So you'd have clearance for a ~230 mm GPU (which'll fit a lot of Nvidia cards and a fair chunk of AMD's low-to-mid-range), a SFX unit mounted at the front like it is on the A4...