alt Hacker News*most* of the homelab setup doesn't have much load so it's mostly matter of ram available and then power consumption.
many people with setup like this probably needs maybe a 4 cores low powered machine with idle consumption at ~5-10w
*most* of the homelab setup doesn't have much load so it's mostly matter of ram available and then power consumption.
many people with setup like this probably needs maybe a 4 cores low powered machine with idle consumption at ~5-10w
Yeah, this is the AI tax. I have several times as many services (28) on a vastly smaller machine (N100 fanless), but besides some very light AI for image detection which runs on CPU, I have no AI there, so I don’t need a desktop PC.