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.
lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months 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
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
Oh god, P4? Yea, those were just 100 watt light bulbs.
Colloidal@programming.dev 8 months ago
Sans the light
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My first computer was 33htz. Ran Windows 3.1. And Warcraft 2.
So yeah. The perfect computer.
zod000@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
A 33MHz DX 486was great. If you got stuck with a slower SX CPU, things were frequently not so hot.
kurcatovium@piefed.social 8 months ago
Well, I would hope for 33 MHz at least... ;-)
Cort@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months ago
No, the graphics from Intel back in 07-10 were crap.
What are you using graphics on a server for instead of just CLI?
Damage@feddit.it 8 months ago
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.