I’ve been planning out a proxmox server for when I eventually have money. (Shut up. It can happen. Shut up!) but I saw something today that got me thinking. Minisforums makes some pretty nice shit at a reasonable price. The entire minis market has actually become pretty great while I wasn’t looking.

I need proxmox hosting opnsense, frigate, jellyfin, homeassistant, BitTorrent, immich, sunshine, steam, and i2pd.

So there are obvious advantages to building my own shit with a trip to microcenter. But maybe these micro machines could actually handle this shit anymore. Opinions?

  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    19 hours ago

    I’ve got three with quadros in them.

    There are definitely options. No youre not shoving a full size GPU in there, but there are options.

      • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        19 hours ago

        Depends on the model.

        I can say for jellyfin transcoding, the igpu is plenty. The quadros only get used for transcoding and some misc cad use and other such things.

        Given the recommended GPU w/ HDR specs for Sunshine - Intel HD Graphics 730 or higher - thats easily accomplished, even used. I couldn’t say how well it runs though as I don’t use it myself.

        • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          1·
          19 hours ago

          I wish SR-IOV support was more common. I suspect I will end up with an Intel GPU most things and an AMD GPU on passthru for the games. So needlessly inefficient.

          • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            19 hours ago

            I mean, thats what my quadros are. There is an Intel igpu plus the quadro, I find it more efficient because I can dedicate them to tasks more easily.

            I agree sr-iov being better adopted would be great, but I also realize I’m not really a candidate either, I find the split approach best for my needs.

            • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              11·
              19 hours ago

              NVIDIA is not an option for me. The hardware is great but the company is evil and I won’t give them my money.

              • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                2·
                19 hours ago

                Do you think you can’t have an AMD GPU with an Intel board and iGPU?

                Because you absolutely can. This is a non-issue.

                • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
                  1·
                  18 hours ago

                  Oh I get that but that would mean I would have an Intel CPU as well. No. I’m fine getting an intel dGPU but not an intel CPU. Even if I end up with a Ryzen CPU and throwing the Intel GPU in a pcie v4 slot that still plenty for this.

                  I wouldn’t mind an ARM build for some of this but they are expensive and not supported by mainline OPNsense so if I’m going to be spending all this money on it, it should be able to streams games too, replacing multiple power hungry devices. And ARM can’t do that.