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I have a Pentium NUC which works fine for this and no noise and still x86.

• tombert 7y ago
  I've debated buying a NUC, but at least on Intel's website, buying just the board cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 USD; for that price I can buy 10 Raspberry Pi 4's or ODroid XU4s. Granted, in order to use them to their full potential, you end up having to learn a lot about distributed computing (which is a bonus for geeks like me, but maybe not most people), but if your goal is to use it as a server, the NUCs seemed a bit overpriced to me. That said, if anyone is looking to stay within the x86/x64 family of CPUs, I actually recommend looking for a used Wyse/Dell thin client on eBay. You can often get a decent quad-core system with USB3.0 and 4-8gb of RAM for around a hundred USD.
  • goosehonk 7y ago
    "Just the board" NUC kits also include the CPU, case, fan, power supply, wifi, bt, etc everything except RAM and storage.
  • henryfjordan 7y ago
    That NUC is still going to have more computing power than your 10-node RPI cluster though. By a lot.