• phillaholic@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You can buy beelink small form factor pcs from Amazon for around $150 with cases and power supplies included.

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      But…he said that it’s not as cheap as it used to be and too power hungry and you propose an 150$ PC?

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        1 year ago

        I’m agreeing with them. By the time you buy the Pi 5, and all the add-ons you need, it’s going to rival these SFF systems with full x86 Intel chips with efficiency cores.

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            1 year ago

            Case, cooler, power supply, storage at minimum, dongle/adapters probably too.

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                It isn't, you can get SFF PCs for as little as $75 on eBay that have Quicksync CPUs and will run circles around a RPi, especially if you have to do any transcoding. They are also really power efficient… 7-20W idles.

                https://www.ebay.com/itm/195163970881

                SBCs really should no longer be considered for selfhosting unless you are A) in an extremely power constrained environment like an off-grid RV or vanlife situation or B) clustering

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                  You're right, if there's no need of GPIO. For example I'm using a Fujitsu Futro S720 that I've bought for about 30/40€ and it consumes about 4W idle and 10/15W maximum (I don't really remember). My point of view is like yours: those boards are not good for self hosting, are good for IoT, digital signage and…mmm…I don't know what else.