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Yeah it's touching 2k USD without RAM / storage or OS. I don't know if many homelabbers are going to buy that just for the form factor. Building a small box wit
by blinkingled 6y ago
Yeah it's touching 2k USD without RAM / storage or OS. I don't know if many homelabbers are going to buy that just for the form factor. Building a small box with 8-C Ryzen would be an interesting exercise.
- devonkim 6y agoThere's no practical reason to use this new box for homelab folks compared to some older micro workstations that came out a year or so ago that had E3-class Xeons in them at least. For an entry of $2k it's easily worth it now to find some old Xeon D mini ITX based boards and plop them into inexpensive cases with SFX PSUs. Old gear is the bread and butter of the homelab experience and people dumping. The hard part with AMD building is mostly the ECC DIMM motherboard support experience but SMB-class hardware still is a Good Idea for prosumer and homelab folks due to software compatibility (read: drivers and less cost-driven gotchas ala winmodems) compared to consumer hardware.