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With the rise of self-hosting, I've migrated several of my tech needs away from third-party services. Here's why you should too.

We benchmark the latest desktop gaming PC from Acer, with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card and an Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF CPU.