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20(euro)cents used to be average price in my country. I actually have much lower price (about one third of that) because I don't have other energy source. It do
by hexo 4y ago
20(euro)cents used to be average price in my country. I actually have much lower price (about one third of that) because I don't have other energy source.
It does not really matter where that price came from, as it can nicely serve as reference point and you can easily scale it according to your price of electricity.
Also, $400 mini PC have performance nowhere near workstation, since RAM only costs more, not even thinking about gaming GPU or price of decent SSDs and HDDs.
What did I do with excess heat? Opened window and turned off POWER8 energy hog.
- iasay 4y ago$400 mini PC gets you an i5-11500T with NVME SSD that will take 128Gb of RAM. Some of them even pop up with NVidia T400 in them. New with Lenovo warranty on eBay. The i5-11500T has better single and multi thread performance. Sure you won’t get an RTX in it but that’s a 1% case really when we’re talking software engineering. That’s a hell of a lot better value proposition than a 5+ year old Xeon which is what we’re seeing suggested here.
- hexo 4y agoJust that 128GB DDR4 is more than 550usd in my country. GPU with 2GB of VRAM is not much today, my 4k desktop consumes 1.6G vram and i'm not even running any game.
- iasay 4y agoFits in your $4000 workstation budget :)
- hexo 4y agoAlso, have you seen high-end laptop prices? Dell XPS is easily 3k+$.
- iasay 4y agoYeah I have a fully loaded XPS 5500 and a 14” MBP
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoWe have them at work, XPS are overpriced garbage machines that just look and cost premium. Do avoid. Midrange machines <1000€ from Lenovo and HP make great workhorses at a fraction of the price.
- iasay 4y agoAs an owner of one I completely agree with this.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago>my 4k desktop consumes 1.6G vram and i'm not even running any game What desktop is that? I ran Windows 11 desktop with youtube and bluray rips fine even while allocating only 512MB of VRAM, though the more you allocate it the more it will use, to cache and speed up various frequently used apps, but even with 512MB it still worked fine.