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I ended up with a Beelink GTR6, picked up used on eBay for $430. It's been great so far, but it's too early to vouch for it. You lose the nice IPMI/other server

by abound 3y ago

I ended up with a Beelink GTR6, picked up used on eBay for $430. It's been great so far, but it's too early to vouch for it. You lose the nice IPMI/other server management features using consumer hardware, but that's part of the tradeoff. Rack stuff can be efficient (<100W idling), especially recent model year stuff, but it gets pricey quickly. You could spec a used 1U single socket Epyc Rome or Milan for under $2,000 if you're willing to shop around, but if you don't have other rackmount equipment, I'd stay away as it's such a price (and power) premium

cmrdporcupine 3y ago
There's plenty of 10-yearish old PowerEdge servers around here for $500ish CAD full of SAS drives and high core count Xeons and a pile of memory. But yeah, power and noise. And I don't have ethernet running down to the basement yet, so not super enthused about having that share office space with me. The laptop I'm typing on is a Ryzen 6850H, so not too far off from the 6900 you're talking about and it has plenty of oomph. I might consider such a thing.