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Did something similar a bit ago with the 5900X and a 6900XT. Wonderful setup, low wattage, quiet, performant.

Just lost it to a fire and not sure what to replace it with, alas. Too busy in the aftermath to justify building and parting stuff independently, so that probably leaves me with an off the shelf or a workstation + GPU combo.

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Yikes. What started the fire?

Still under investigation, alas. First guess was a popped lithium battery downstairs but the fire dept has ruled that out now.

I’m sorry you went/are going through that.

I know you said it’s been ruled out, but I sometimes wonder if I should worry more about aging lithium batteries in older devices… the oldest ones (e.g. 2000s handhelds) are now old enough to be retro-cool and therefore worth keeping for nostalgia, but they’re also a bit scary.

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