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A renewed Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q — six-core i5-8500T, 16 GB, NVMe — ran about $210 to $240 on the guide's October 20 checks, and it is the cheapest tiny box with a real PCIe riser slot. Plus Flint on the bench, a fan-cooled U.2 adapter that does not cook enterprise SSDs, and GitHub's SSH brownout on November 4.
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