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These mobile APUs are amazing. Especially when combined with a GPU. It would be really nice to be able to use these in a standard ATX motherboard because it wou
by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 6y ago
These mobile APUs are amazing. Especially when combined with a GPU. It would be really nice to be able to use these in a standard ATX motherboard because it would make the perfect home server CPU.
- 1996 6y agoI share your interest for a silent yet powerful homeserver. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any desktop motherboards for mobile zen2 yet. Too bad. I would even settle on a NUC.
- lostlogin 6y agoA common use case includes video transcoding and the ability to offload this to hardware makes the NUC a good choice. I’d love a good AMD option, but for the size and price, I can’t find anything that will transcode as efficiently. The new Ghost Canyon NUCs look excellent, but I assume pricing will be eye watering. They are also much larger. https://www.anandtech.com/show/15720/intel-ghost-canyon-nuc9i9qnx-review https://www.anandtech.com/show/15720/intel-ghost-canyon-nuc9...
- rubatuga 6y agoI've found the HP Z230 SFF to be very silent and available for only ~$150.
- jamiek88 6y agoWhat would you use the GPU for in a home server?
- 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 6y agoHardware accelerated h265/h264 decoding/encoding for media streaming and CCTV cameras.
- Narishma 6y agoAn APU is fine for those things, you don't need a dedicated GPU.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y agoMy home server is a Dell Latitude with an i5-2520M $80 on craigslist 3 years ago.