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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If anyone is interested, I have a lot of HP elite desk g2s with core i5 6500t processors, 8gb ram and 256gb ssds.

Work was throwing them away and so I turned my trunk into the trash can with the it directors permission.

I'll be glad to let them go for $75 a piece.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have one that I got for $130. It’s an excellent server. This is a great deal.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The design of this website resembles times and mentality contemporary to Netscape Navigator and Altavista.

...but the suggestions are good. Absolutely worth reading.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Good article. I've been happy with my Lenovo M93p's for some time now. They seem to be very comfortable running Ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I love my HP Prodesk 600 G3 DM. Bought it for €90 and it runs Proxmox and my containers perfectly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Detailed article.

I’ll just add, I recently bought an Optiplex with a 7500t. It was just over $100, but the Gen 7 Intel means it has quicksync which is great for a media server that needs to transcode.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Funny timing.

Just yesterday, I bought a Lenovo micro PC off eBay for $30 to repurpose as a Chromebox for my kids to use for schoolwork.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wasn't sure what they were gonna list, but good to see they listed what I'm thinking of getting: a Raspberry Pi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I researched a bit ago and had no luck, but maybe this is the place to ask. Is there any business mini PC that has a powerful enough PSU to add a graphics card? Specifically an RX 580.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I started getting mini PCs when raspberry pi prices were peaking. My favorite mini PC I have was a bit expensive at around $200 CAD at the time. Its an hp elitedesk 705 g4 with a Ryzen 5 pro 2400g. Runs just about any server I need and does great for audio recording in Windows.

I also snagged a lenovo mini thinkcentre for about $100 CAD. It's a bit older with a 4th gen i5 ( I think) and 8gb of ddr3. It sits in the data closet for contract work that I do and has all my work stuff, office 365, Visio, affinity designer, cloud connections.

I use a remote connection with my main PC ( running pop!_os Linux) to connect to either of the two instead of buying extra monitors or any peripherals. At the very least, It's been a fun experiment.