ThinkCentre M75q Tiny

As someone who also looked into self hosting I would be strongly against a raspberry pi since per dollar the performance is not really there, getting a used SFF pc like a lenovo m75q is probably going to do you far better long term.

Ich werfe mal einen refubishes lenovo thinkcentre m75q tiny in den Raum. So 200-300 EUR

Get a used office PC like a Lenovo Thinkcentre M75q or HP EliteDesk with a Ryzen 2400GE or even 3400GE if it fits into your budget. Should be small enough to fit into a Sega Genesis while being powerful enough to emulate PS2. I can't speak to the used market in Europe but I know they go for around $

From my experience, you get very good value for money buying used office business PCs, and mod them for your needs. The newer model, usually means more energy efficient. For example. lenovo m75q gen 2 mini, incus host idle with 0 load around 5W (32gig ram, 1T disk) HP elitedesk g4 mini, intel 8400T

It's a decent price. You will have to buy at least a 4gb stick of RAM, but a single 16GB or two 8gb sticks would be better. You could get away with just adding one 8GB stick for 12GB total and the lowest cost. Then you need a NVMe drive. You can get a 4GB stick for around $10 and $40 for the two 8GB

Basically, you're 100% correct. ASRock, ASUS & MSI are among the few who use mobile, non-socketed mPCs builds, with prices which reflect the market. The Chi-NUC brands have taken of this "void" in the landscape over the past few years. Bottom line, comes down to budget & long-term expectations. When

Lenovo Thinkcentre... best minis for home lab Try to look for recent models of m70q , m75q or m90q i5 should be good for basic home labbing. I would say fo with i7 (if available in cheap), 16GB RAM minimum.

I honesty bought a cheap Lenovo M75Q-1 (1 liter pc ..quite small) to place under the tv in order to use it when I want to watch YouTube so that I can block the ads w/ brave or firefox + ublockorign the pc cost me about $80~ was totally worth it. I also have pi-hole plus youtube ad blocklists that do

i don't do any gaming other than retro which is generally easily done on these machines me personally I'm a fan of Lenovo Tiny Thinkcentre/Thinkstation which has a whole scene a lot of the liquidated machines (older) you can prob get something you can expand on, however, you don't get the top end st

I am using this when I am not actively gaming as this Lenovo Neo 50Q G4 (i5-13620H /16GB /512GB SSD) uses about 2040watts while my 12700K /32GB / 2TB / 3070FE system uses about 150watts at the desktop and 370 while gaming.. I got a inexpensive but working "fine" DP KVM to switch back and forth qui