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Recently got some Audioengine HD3 speakers and slapped a Topping E30 DAC into it with some silver RCA phonos I have had for years (it was those or some Furukawa FD phono RCA cables that cost like £250 back in 1992).
Rather lovely little combo.
I remember on this forum 10 years ago all the US folks laughing at the UK having so many Govt/police security cameras everywhere.
I said at the time..."It's going to happen to you too!" and I got told "No way cos...freedom and 2A and stuff!"
Yeah...ah well.
Had good results with laptops, including my Framework with PTM. I was happy enough with it I used it for my 9900X built desktop. Had no issues. Not used it on a GPU yet as my current one is still in warranty.
As for real stuff or not, I've just ordered off Amazon the past three times, same...
Oh yeah I want a P5800X but as you say...if you think standard NVMe costs are high... I'm sticking with my 375GB P4800X, my 750GB P4800X and my diddy 118GB P1600X (which I use exclusively for my pagefile).
https://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/nvme/intel-optane-p5800x-pcie-4-nvme-ssd-review/...