I bought three of these for my home lab. One thing a Linus Tech Tips video mentioned got me *extremely* interested. They were successful in running an Nvidia 1050 Ti on the external PCI-e dock without external power.
Instead of a GPU, why not a fast network adapter? I'm planning to use the...
10+ available at $589 with BO available: Sun Oracle 1.6TB Flash Accelerator F160 Card Intel SSD DC P3605 Series NVME PCIe | eBay
I snagged one last time and have overkill on my home gaming machine. I just might pick up another...
HGST Ultrastar 3 TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive 7200 RPM 0F17731 (Pulled Drive) - Monoprice.com
Looks pretty reasonable if you have the drive slots to spare.
EDIT: Out Of Stock as of late yesterday.
Ha, awesome to see that another member picked it up.
@nk215, let me know how that testing goes. I'd be interested at the $800 price point. I was trying to snipe as well on eBay :)
With the Phantek case, I just put two of the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO's on yesterday. I'd highly recommend them. They fit like a glove, after I remembered to move the screws to the 2011 position. I love that cooler... less than whisper quiet on low settings, with low temperatures.
Peter99 - what Gigabyte board, case, case fans, etc are you using? I'd like a quiet setup for home as well, and your Prime95 test sounds like it's pretty ideal.
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