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    Streacom F1C WS build ft. dedicated GPU

    After months of waiting, snatching special deals left and right, and going back and forth with ideas, I finally ordered all my parts. My initial plan (well, not really initial but we'll start here) was to get a G4560 + GTX 1050 Ti inside a Custommod Mini, but due to problems with my particular...
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    Motherboard PCIe x1 vs x16 - performance difference?

    So I keep coming back to external GPUs, and recently I found out about this: It's a USB 3.0 PCIe extender, and it's used mainly for bitcoin mining and other such use cases where you need another PCIe device. But I was wondering, what would the performance hit be if I put a graphics card on...
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    GPU Zotac GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition - Fan speeds?

    I bought this card a few weeks ago, but I still haven't got the chance to test it or even see it (it's a long story). Problem is, I've just read that it's got a 45% minimum fan curve, BIOS locked, at idle, which sounds ridiculous to me. From what I've seen, there are no BIOS updates anywhere on...
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    Motherboard Mini-STX - here to stay for Ryzen?

    I was really excited when the mini-STX form factor was announced because it would mean that people who don't need GPUs would have a smaller and proper socketed option instead of Mini-ITX or NUCs. Now with Ryzen APUs planned to launch somewhere around H2 2017 and said to have big graphical...