[WarOnPrivacy]

> 2x Xeon Gold 6248 CPU

300 are a lot of watts. ...I didn't used to pay attention but power costs keep rising.

I recently opted for a i7 F (65w base) over an i7 K (125w base) even with the 15% performance hit.

[doubled112]

I have a couple of machines that I can spin up if I need the power and performance, but it was amazing to me that the always on services that I'm actually using would run on an N95 mini PC.

YMMV, I'm not saying it's enough for every use case. The CPU will transcode my 1080p media using QSV at ~500 FPS. I don't have enough users to saturate that using Jellyfin.

[Aachen]

N95? As in, the Nokia?

Edit: did some searching, probably you mean the N95 Intel CPU as the basis for a mini pc, not actually a system called N95. That thing is 30% faster than my server's cpu which has <10% occupancy, and about half of it comes from the 1 Windows VM that I need for a legacy application I should really be getting rid of. It's also very recent, you can use way older CPUs from hardware people are throwing away that use similarly little power instead of buying a new product

[doubled112]

Yes, the Intel N95 CPU. They're common in sub-$200 mini PCs. We'll see about longevity. It's run over two years 24x7.

I agree about finding old hardware to use. Sometimes it is the way to go.

I ran old Dell laptops from the recycle bin at work as servers for some time. I ran old gaming machines at one point as well.

Those laptops used more power than this thing, put out more heat, and were slower.

I was just saying that people don't always need dual 150W Xeons monsters for homelab.

[WarOnPrivacy]

> The CPU will transcode my 1080p media using QSV at ~500 FPS.

Did you do the original encoding yourself (to insure everything is optimized for your rig)?

[doubled112]

I ripped them from Bluray a long time before this machine was around. They were likely encoded using whatever preset Handbrake would have used as a default at the time