I’d like to buy an ex company PC to serve as home server, as an upgrade for my raspberry pi. It should run some selfhosted services like Frigate and Immich, and perhaps Jellyfin. I was thinking to buy an 9th gen Intel or later ex company PC. It should be energy efficient as well.
I tried looking at Trademe but you can’t filter on CPU generation. I could search on the exact Intel cpu number but that seems too restrictive. Pbtech is too expensive what I saw. I haven’t tried Marketplace but guess that’s the same. Some reddit post suggested Dell Optiplex, but no idea how their type numbering works.
Any tips?
Yeah the difficulty of sourcing corals is exactly why i’ve not yet used one. I’ve used both GPU & CPU for detection and both have been fine. I switched to CPU because the GPU I had in this box originally was a Quadro and its power use and heat output was just rediculous. I’ve since bought a passive cooled GT1030 but I might not have even switched back to GPU over CPU since I installed - I only have 4 cameras in Frigate and the CPU is keeping up fine.
I figured i’d have a crack at enabling the GPU detector today and noticed that i’m currently not using CPU detectors anymore, i’ve at some point switched to using the OpenVINO one so its using the Intel iGPU I think. That must have been working well given I forgot that’s what I was using :)
I’ll let you know how I get on switching to the nVidia detector.