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Lowest TDP "consumer grade" (off the shelf) CPU? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by RazvanRosca@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hello,

What would be the lowest TDP consumer grade CPU that I could get off the shelf? I've read that recent Intel "i" series are quite efficient, but I'm wondering which3/5/7/9 series (and maybe a model?) is "the best".

I'm looking to self-host only a small amount of containers. 4k video output (or transcoding) would also be a great feat, even if nowadays I'm not using Plex that much.

Thank you

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[โ€“] mrpeenut24@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a big fan of SuperMicro's Xeon D- series 1U short servers. Not really consumer grade, but not overly expensive either (about $1k on ebay for everything but the disk), and power consumption was not much higher than Atoms at the time I bought them.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/series/87041/intel-xeon-d-processor.html

I have a D-1541, 8 core (16 thread), 2100MHz @ 45W TDP, and two D-1518s, 4 core (8 thread), 2200MHz @ 35W TDP. They'll both run proxmox with a handful of containers, and another selling point was 10GbE, which is great if you're looking to upgrade your LAN.

[โ€“] RazvanRosca@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds interesting, thank you. What about noise?