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How to find a cheap ex company PC based on which Intel generation? (self.newzealand)
submitted 2 years ago by sylverstream to c/newzealand
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I'd like to buy an ex company PC to serve as home server, as an upgrade for my raspberry pi. It should run some selfhosted services like Frigate and Immich, and perhaps Jellyfin. I was thinking to buy an 9th gen Intel or later ex company PC. It should be energy efficient as well.

I tried looking at Trademe but you can't filter on CPU generation. I could search on the exact Intel cpu number but that seems too restrictive. Pbtech is too expensive what I saw. I haven't tried Marketplace but guess that's the same. Some reddit post suggested Dell Optiplex, but no idea how their type numbering works.

Any tips?

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[-] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 1 points 2 years ago

Well the nVidia detector is a bit more fiddly to get going than the OpenVINO one; but not too hard, just a matter of going through the steps in the documentation.

You need to run a different image of the frigate container so it includes all the TensorRT stuff and separately you have to generate the models. The only hiccup I had there was setting the right GPU to generate on bc mine is only a 1030 disabling FP16 operations.

That's all running fine so now i'll just monitor it for a bit to see if it makes any significant difference to CPU load & case temperatures running the detections on the GPU instead of CPU.

this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2024
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