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?

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        11 days ago

        An N100 is not going to do what I want to punish this thing with. I have an N100 build going now. It’s good but it is what it is and it’s not going to handle steam games.

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          11 days ago

          If you’re talking about streaming steam games at 4k, then maybe. But at that point build a dedicated machine.

          Sunshine works fine with n100 quicksync for 1080p streaming, plus frigate. I’m running both of these on an 11th gen i5 with a coral tpu for frigate.

          Not sure what your “punishment” is for hardware, but your current list really isn’t that demanding.

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              11 days ago

              IDS, L4 firewall and video streaming from the same machine? It can be done.

              Should you do it? That’s a lesson I’m gonna leave to you to learn yourself. For personal growth.

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      11 days 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.

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          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.

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            11 days 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.

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              11 days 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.

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                11 days 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.

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                  11 days 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.