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  • NotAfran@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What’s the power consumption like on the mini PCs? They seem pretty efficient compared to the big ones

  • UltraSPARC@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, these little things are great!

    FYI - you can get 2.5GbE cards that slot into the WiFi slot on the motherboard and pig-tail a line out one of the antenna ports.

    • OverloadedConstructo@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I use the 1 GbE ethernet card in wifi slot with the elitedesk, then replace the vga removable port with 3d printed module in thingiverse to fit the ethernet port output. Quite a saver than having to find mini pc that support 2 GbE ethernet and a good processor which is more expensive (not to mention unknown bios support).

    • prototype__@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yes! Or get creative with a dremel and pliers… Sometimes it’s worth sacraficing the odd VGA port (or equiv) along the way.

      /u/Fruguy01, please chare your stack with /r/minilab too!

  • phychmasher@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This title feels designed to find the homelab Dads of young girls.
    My little homelab, my little homelab, ahhhh ahhhh ahhhh ahhh!

  • Icinglips@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can you please at least wipe the shelf it’s on? All you need is 1 Lysol wipe, maybe 2.

  • AJL42@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I got one of the Elitedesk mini PCs with a Ryzen 2400ge in it but was never able to get the bios to save any of my settings so I couldn’t disable secure boot. So it’s going to get turned into a chock block for my snow blower.

  • Fruguy01@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    From top to bottom

    HP Elitedesk 800 G5 - Core i7-9700T 8 core, 16GB RAM, dual 256 GB nvme ssds

    2x HP Elitedesk 800 G4 - Core i5-8500T, 16GB RAM, 256GB nvme SSD and 960GB Enterprise Sata 2.5" ssd

    Dell Optiplex 5050 - Core i5- 7something, 32GB RAM, 256GB Sata m.2, 4TB WD Blue - This is my plex server atm.

    HP Prodesk 600 G4 - Core i5-8500, 32GB RAM, 512GB m.2 NVMe - Just a testing machine atm, may be added to Proxmox cluster.

    The HP mini pcs are my new Proxmox cluster. I’m setting up a few Windows Server VMs to learn some stuff for work. Other ideas are in the pipe, but I want to figure out some stuff in the Windows Server world first.

    • ChumpyCarvings@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Gotta be honest the 2 bottom ones need to go, for neatness, power use, etc - I just see no point in anything bigger than a 1L now unless it’s a total beast.

      You can stack the 1L from Dell / Lenovo and HP all quite nicely.

  • jlboygenius@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How hard is it to add ram to those elitedesk’s? I have a G4, but the bigger case. it had 4 ram slots, so it was easy to add to.

    Looking at a few of those on ebay, I don’t see a ram slot. is it just hidden under the fans?