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You can just remove the screws for the hinges (2 in each corner) and the top assembly should come right off. You will have to disconnect the LCD cable, Webcam and mic cable, and Wifi / WWAN cables.

Some issues i ran into:

• wifi issues. You can remove the wifi antennas from the lid and use them, but you’ll have to route them outside. I tried this but the signal was weak. I attached this external wifi antenna on the side (drilled a hole where the lock would be) and that took care of that issue. You can also just buy a usb wifi dongle (just disable the wifi switch on the side).
• screen display issue. Windows detected that i don’t have internal screen, so it made the external as the main screen. In Linux (ubuntu based), it still thinks that you have internal and external connected so you’ll have to select Duplicate Displays and choose the external monitor.

Edit: The cable that leads from the golden screw on to the asrock dongle itself is what is 'broken'.

I'm looking for purely new antennas, something like this, but smaller and thinner. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GMBUS8O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Asus WiFi Go is their software. The actual thing you need is called an M.2/NGFF (Next Gen. Form Factor) wifi/wireless card. As well as some antenna such as this: https://www.amazon.com/Highfine-Wireless-Extension-Bulkhead-Repeater/dp/B01GMBUS8O/ref=sr_1_15?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1494648174&sr=1-15&keywords=ngff+wifi

> Is the Notcua NH-L9i necessary?

No. Save your money and build it with the stock cooler. If you decide later that you want to install a different cooler, it's not difficult to do.

> Is my current MOBO selection good?

Used it twice. No problems. DO NOT install the garbage software from the Gigabyte web site. It all sucks. If it happens to not crash, it will slow down your PC.

> is the Ryzen 5 1600 a good choice for the price at the moment?

Yep.

> what are good cost effective alternatives as of right now? How are Radeon card alternatives?

Here is one comparison chart. There are others on the web in various places that are slightly different, but similar. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

• Corsair Vengeance LPX is the only RAM that's ever failed on me due to old age and 2 of 4 sticks have failed. Plus it's expensive for no reason.
• You're going to hate yourself if you try to build in a mini ITX case with a non-modular PSU.
• Spend the extra $15 on a better SSD and get M.2 form factor so it mounts directly to the motherboard. No need to run power/SATA to a drive inside an already tight case.
• I would build it first with the stock cooler, but if you're going to buy the Noctua, you want the NH-L9a rather than the L9i. Different mounting brackets: A for AMD, I for Intel.
• If you get tired of the the wifi-on-a-string antenna that comes with that motherboard. These work very well with that motherboard. Just throw away the little cables that come with them and screw them on to the existing antenna ports.

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They came with the mobo. They are standard 2.4ghz/5Ghz antennas you can find on Amazon.

Just check it your wifi connectors are RP-SMA or SMA.

Plenty of antenna options available from retailers like amazon. I'll note that although bluetooth will work without the antenna, its range is severely affected without them.

The ones that came with my x570 Tomahawk look a lot like these:

https://www.amazon.com/Highfine-Wireless-Extension-Bulkhead-Repeater/dp/B01GMBUS8O

Here's a cheap set I bought last year. You can just throw away the wires and use the antennas. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GMBUS8O

If you want to look at different antennas, look for "RP-SMA Male" connectors. They're by far the most common, but you don't want to accidentally get "SMA Male" instead. RP-SMA means the center pin is on the motherboard and the antenna has a central socket. If it's "SMA" connectors, that's the opposite with the center pin being on the antenna and the motherboard jack having a central socket.

https://i.imgur.com/QPKhQK3.png

just contact our customer support and say it didnt come with it or something. Otherwise they are pretty generic, most wifi antennas use the same connector called RP-SMA

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they look like this

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https://www.amazon.com/Highfine-Wireless-Extension-Bulkhead-Repeater/dp/B01GMBUS8O/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=wifi+antenna&qid=1559264416&s=gateway&sr=8-4

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(you don't need the wire bits, just the antennas, but they all seem to come bundled)

I don't need something like that, but rather just something like this.

(The antenna portion)

How does that compare to something like this or this one?

So you're sure that it doesn't exist? In that case, thanks for telling me that. As for the wifi thing, would the things I linked in the post (this and this) work for my purposes? It appears that my motherboard has a dedicated "Mini-PCIE slot for wifi card" near the IO that would necessitate something like this solution (a card like the one I linked with leads to the back, where there are holes for the antennas) if I wanted antennas on the back, which I would. I've got a cheap USB one and I don't like it. Thank you for your help.

I have this gigabyte mobo and it came with one of those magnetic antenna for the wifi card. Unfortunately the Ncase is not magnetic because aluminium. I don't know anything about the right kind of antenna to replace it. But i wanted the kind that screws directly into the connectors in the back. Would this work? https://www.amazon.com/Highfine-Wireless-Extension-Bulkhead-Repeater/dp/B01GMBUS8O/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1499105383&sr=1-3&keywords=wifi+antenna