Comment on good alternatives to raspberry pi which are cheap and efficient?
dan@upvote.au 11 months agoIf you’re careful and wait for a deal, can usually find 1L boxes for like $50-75
I’ve actually got a spare HP ProDesk SFF PC with an Intel Core i5-9500. Would that CPU be sufficient?
Make sure the nic is intel, too - none of that Realtek crap
I’ve also got a spare 10Gbps Trendnet NIC which uses an Aquantia AQC107 chip. Are Aquantia OK for this purpose?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, though the advantage of the T sku CPUs is that they have ultra low tdp. Great for 24/7 boxes.
dan@upvote.au 11 months ago
The T version is usually the same price as the non-T version, and on a good motherboard you can modify the power limits in the BIOS to make a non-T CPU perform similarly to the T version.