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. 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 1.5k on that and im not about that life
@artemis 👀 what did the humans who built it refer to it as?
@ckie very quiet. and its like. well its a box. its not the smallest or the biggest tihng