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What CPU goes well for rendering / gaming on a RX 470 aside from the i3 6100?

I bought this RX 470 recently for a good price, and now for Black Friday I am buying something that I intend not to bottleneck my GPU for gaming. After browsing for a long time, I see many people recommending the i3 6100 going besides the RX 470.…
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What's the SSD producer with cheapest warranty/return policy?

When I compare prices of HDDs, I embed a virtual "warranty price" for the costs I'd find if I needed a return (assuming the producer provides more than 2-year EU commercial warranty). Which producer has the lowest ones (for an EU customer)? The…
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Colour laser printer

I am looking for a colour LED or Laser printer for home use. Important: Reasonable photo quality (I understand lasers don't have great performance here, but for instance one of the Brother LED printers gets reasonable critique). Duplex…
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HBA with flash backed cache and FreeBSD driver? ( for use with FreeNAS)

I'm looking for an HBA with write caching, and data loss protection for the cache, that's suitable for FreeNAS. The disks will mainly be writing/sync, so fast write response is useful. Its easy to find RAID cards with write caching but ZFS really…
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Need a new laptop that meets the following requirements

I'm looking to buy a new laptop used mainly for heavy programming and needs to be able to play HD videos without trouble. As far as I was able to find (and I'm open to better suggestions), I have the following requirements: Budget: ~$1000 intel i5…
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Most reasonable printer for hard plastic ID badges / business cards?

I'm needing to print, on-demand (or relatively so), a few dozen ID badges and/or hard/transparent "business card" or "gift card"-like cards. Ideally, they should be full-color and fairly durable as they will be intended to be worn often. They won't…
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Replacement motherboard for an HP Pavilion P6-2280EA

my dad's computer broke recently and when he took it in for repair the guy said it was the motherboard and it was going to cost hundreds of pounds to get a replacement. It is an HP Pavillion P6-2280EA system a few years old. I told him (perhaps a…
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Most Economical Personal Computer UPS

I'm looking for an decent quality UPS with a decent quality battery for a single Linux personal computer. So far, most power outages here have been very short--power lost for mere seconds--so I'm not concerned about continuous running on battery for…
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Single board computer with 2 GBit ethernet ports

I am looking for a single board computer with 2x1 GBit ethernet ports, on board. Should come with SATA and/or USB 3. Either x86 or ARM is ok, as long as it runs Linux.
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Laptop with tapered keys (i.e. not chiclets) OTHER than gaming laptop

It seems that, in the pursuit of thinness, major manufacturers have stopped making laptops with quality keyboards and now they all give you a chiclet keyboard except on high end gaming laptops. That's unfortunate, because I plan to use my laptop to…
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Looking for an adapter to go from HDMI to RCA Component 480p

Request: I want a box which converts from HDMI or VGA to Component 480p without introducing noticeable lag. Additional information which describes my situation: I have a decent "Flat Glass" CRT SD TV which I believe supports 480p Component Input. I…
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Inexpensive Electronic Task Board

I'm looking for something inexpensive to use as an electronic task board mounted on the wall in a house spending under or close to $50 if possible. Preferably a 7" screen minimum. 3" seems to small. Screensaver or screen dimming isn't in the…
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Monitor for multimedia (22")

I'm searching for a new monitor, I currently own (for more or less 1 years) a Dell UltraSharp 24" (U2414H) which is a very good monitor but I feel uncomfortable with it (24 inches is too big for me and due to the conception of the screen it appear…
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Are there switches with a direct connection between two ports when the power is off?

Are there switches which have a direct connection between two ports (e.g. port 1 and 2) when the power is not plugged in? I would like those two ports linked as if there was a direct connection with a cable instead of a (switched off) switch in…
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Computer audio solution with sidetone

I'm looking for an audio board or USB dongle that has proper sidetone. I don't use a headset with integrated mic because I don't like the bad sound quality. Instead I have a separate desk microphone plugged in to the mic port, and earphones. However…
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