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If you look right now at the homeserver market, it's getting larger and larger. With APUs, it could be a great bargain for a self-hosted PC console with decent
by 3abiton 3y ago
If you look right now at the homeserver market, it's getting larger and larger. With APUs, it could be a great bargain for a self-hosted PC console with decent steam deck like performance. Linux is getting spoiled with steam compatibility. I have one of those iGPUs, with around 15W idle, and their performance is surprisingly good for an old APU, on low settings for AAA games. You can check YouTube for some comparison.
- c0pium 3y ago> …homeserver market, it's getting larger and larger. Is that true? How are you measuring it?
- 3abiton 3y agoProxy kpis, like how many tech YouTubers are pivoting to the "check my home server you guys", and the popularity of home server desktop hardware (on the shopping sites I follow)
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- diffeomorphism 3y agoThere are somewhat opposing goals between home servers (e.g. movies, many drives, low power consumption, stowed away) and gaming console-like pcs. A mini pc can be a good compromise but not the best at either.
- blackoil 3y agoHome Servers need not be very small. If gaming is primary objective, you can add a 3060/70 or similar, or old gaming laptop, otherwise like you said current iGPU also serve purpose. OPs idea is to sacrifice CPU cores for iGPU, i.e. a home server with weak CPU but powerful iGPU, that is a small niche.