Comment on good alternatives to raspberry pi which are cheap and efficient?
qaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m current using a refurbished Lenovo mini PC
Comment on good alternatives to raspberry pi which are cheap and efficient?
qaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m current using a refurbished Lenovo mini PC
AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s what I use for my low intensity projects. I didn’t realize the i7 ones were that cheap now, maybe I should grab another.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I7 doesn’t mean much without knowing the CPU generation. A 4th Gen i7 is dirt cheap but is only 4c/8t and a power hog. Meanwhile a much newer i3 could be more capable at 1/3 the power.
Check eBay and you’ll get a good look at pricing, Amazon sellers will take you for a ride here.
folkrav@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This. My old 2nd gen i5-750 doesn’t hold a candle vs. a modern i3.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wouldn’t recommend anyone go older than 6th Gen Intel CPUs these days. They’re already 6+ years old, anything before that doesn’t usually support x86-64-v3 and the perf/watt just isn’t worthwhile. Your total cost of ownership on, say, a Haswell i7 is going to be significantly higher than a Skylake machine even over the first year once you account for energy costs.
Preferably you’d use Intel 8th gen (when the i3s stepped to 4c/8t and the i5/i7s went to 6c/12t) but I don’t know how competitive pricing is on those these days. I’d try to stick with Zen2 on the AMD side if possible, that’s about when their perf/watt really started to get good - I do have a soft spot for Zen1 embedded though, you can get great prices on v1756b boxes on eBay now (the HP T740) and those make nice virtualized 10Gb router platforms.