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Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 days agoWhy CUDA? I don’t see any services listed that would benefit at all from a GPU, and even if they later spun up a Jellyfin or similar that can always be mapped to the integrated GPU.
Better to start with something cheap and imperfect to learn what you actually need then upgrade from there
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I threw it in as a gimme or as a backup if they go AMD.
My real intent is to aim for the seventh gen intel processor or higher, as the intel quicksync encoders are better on the seventh generation than they are in the sixth gen.
That can help with encryption of files and decoding encrypted files for something like an opnsense box or wireguard.
And who knows, they might want to play around with some local AI stuff or jellyfin in the future.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 hour ago
That’s fair, and if you’re buying and have the choice, getting 7th gen or newer would be absolutely ideal
I think suggesting a system with a GPU before there’s a need for a GPU (especially when one could be added later) is a bit over the top though. Especially since local AI is kinda niche within homelabbers and media en/decoding can be done on the iGPU (and realistically for Jellyfin everything should ideally be direct-play since so much quality is lost with the real-time transcoding, so it shouldn’t be hit too hard for what transcoding does occur
Of course I say this all with my home server running off a 4th gen i5 and Jellyfin configured for GPU accelerated transcode on the iGPU. I’m sure it would be better on a better CPU and GPU but meh