lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
This should be a well know, but often misunderstood thing. Lots of reddit selfhosting threds urge people to buy a new mini-pc for its “low power draw” when usually its the same or 1-2watts less then a laptop from 2012. However performace to watt is much higher, so if you need massive preformance new is much better, if your system is idling most of the time anyway, theres been little improvement in the absolute minimums
For my first server, after moving on from 2 raspberrys to a Proxmox host, I went with an embedded Asrock MB, passively cooled so you know it wasn’t drawing much power, still had multiple SATA ports and with the right sticks I could get 32GB RAM in.
Seems better to me than a minipc where you have no expandability, especially no chance for RAID.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
You just can’t buy too old or the inverse happens and the performance per watt drops. I think you’re right that 2012 is about the cutoff. Maybe 2007 for certain items, like my 2007 iMac. But if you’re getting back to the Pentium 4 era you’ve gone too far and need to turn back around.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
Oh god, P4? Yea, those were just 100 watt light bulbs.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My first computer was 33htz. Ran Windows 3.1. And Warcraft 2.
So yeah. The perfect computer.
kurcatovium@piefed.social 1 week ago
Well, I would hope for 33 MHz at least... ;-)
zod000@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
A 33MHz DX 486was great. If you got stuck with a slower SX CPU, things were frequently not so hot.
Colloidal@programming.dev 1 week ago
Sans the light
Cort@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, the graphics from Intel back in 07-10 were crap. 2012-2013 would be my bare minimum, usb3 if only for loading a new OS.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
What are you using graphics on a server for instead of just CLI?
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Transcoding video for streaming.