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How's a HP EliteDesk G4 Tower with i7-8700 for a first home server for Jellyfin, Home Assistant & OpenVPN? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by etay080@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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It would cost me around $250, is it worth it?
Will it be able to handle it all? Would it be able to handle Jellyfin transcoding if necessary?

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[–] EndlessHiway@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yes and a lot more.

[–] thepenis_mightier@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, it's plenty. My own "most powerful" server runs on an i7-7700, and I've never seen it's CPU usage spike above 20%.

Intel 14nm CPUs are still solid performers for secondary usage today, mostly because Intel stuck with that process for so long. Even their newest processors on the 10nm process is essentially just a die shrink version of the 14nm process, because that's how Intel insists on working.

[–] kookykoalajon@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I actually run a HP 800 G3 tower I needed the 5 1/2 drive bay for my blue-ray drive, with a i7-7000 it will do fantastic, mine runs my NAS. Jellyfin, Hand break, and Makemkv in containers doesn’t have any issues can handle 3-4 streams with no issues

[–] etay080@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks everyone, I've went ahead and bought it. Excited to get working on my first home server!