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CPUs from 2010 are literally fine for a hobbyist. i have 24 threads churning through an assload of audio transcodes and GCC compilations. and 96 gigs of ram. it cost me like $400 (?) if you include the CPU, motherboard, cooling, ram, psu.
the fuck you need anything else for?
video transcodes is the answer of course. doing that without AVX is kinda ass. but like idk slap an old cheapo nvidia in there it'll do your plexes just fine
seriously this stuff is so good for homelabbing it has IPMI (iKVM requires a java applet but just ditch that and use the serial-over-lan with `ipmiconsole` from yr main computer). it has two ethernet ports, plus the ipmi port. it has PCIe slots. I stuck an NVMe drive in one of the PCIe slots with an m.2 to PCIe 4x adapter so it has 4xgen2 lanes (16gbit/s ish bandwidth). the ram is ECC. its ddr3 but eh whatever you probably dont care for most homelab stuff. yeah you could compile rust faster on a modern top of the line system but you could also drop 1k, 1.5k on that and im not about that life. also ddr4 ecc pricing is nutzo
anyways if that stuff is out of your price range id probably recommend a rockpro64 + either the sata adapter or m.2 adapter depending on what you're into. $200 gets you a fairly weak compared to x86 but strong by arm SBC standards setup. and its super power efficient and actually has ok software support in current year.
or just buy an old thinkpad from ebay and have a UPS built in and a lot more compute than the rockpro64. but it'll be loud when you do anything intense on it is the problem and external drives gets limited to USB. you can solve the loudness problem by throttling the CPU tho
cromulent! its even got a DVD drive built in that might work and is replaceable if its busted. you can do a whole lot of homelab shit off of one of these. and the keyboard/monitor makes debugging network issues infinitely easier. fuck the raspi
btw you can upgrade these to 16 gigs of ram if you get the money for it later down the line
& @artemis hows the fan noise? size?
@ckie very quiet. and its like. well its a box. its not the smallest or the biggest tihng
@artemis 