Raspberry Pi 5 specifications and demo. The new Raspberry Pi 5 was announced at 7:00am on September 28th 2023, and will be available at the end of October. Y...
Honestly getting cheap old laptops just make more sense for what most people use these for. Emulation on media servers will run just fine on an old thinkpad off eBay. We need to move tech to the Reuse stage
I’ve found recent celeron/pentium and i3 nucs are really great for a balance of low power consumption (<13W) and reasonable performance. Their BIOS allows you to specifically set a power limit and customise other low level things like TAU etc, so you can tune the boost performance to your liking.
It’s a shame Intel discontinued them, the form factor itself was not the only thing setting them apart. The software was well thought out and the hardware just worked 😭
The (6th gen??) ones with programmable ring LEDs are extremely handy for telling system status at a glance, I’ve got three of them 🤫. If i’m not mistaken, a few nuc generations also had onboard GPIOs too?
I have my doubts that the build quality and BIOS will hold up to an Intel-made device, but I hope i’m proven wrong once reviewers have spent some time with them. I vaguely remember something about Intel manufacturing NUC motherboards only, but I’m not sure if that applies to the arrangement with ASUS
I have the Celeron J3455 ones, can’t recall what idle consumption is but it’s really low. I stopped using the Pi for selfhosting several years back after realising my old atom netbook was faster at that time, and from there I scaled up to desktop systems, but now I’ve scaled right back down to the nucs lol.
I run HA, Plex, Zabbix and a bunch of other small stuff. Currently looking into a selfhosted markdown notes solution, since the hosted one I’m using at the moment (HackMD) is moving further into proprietary territory
But yeah, I haven’t picked up a Pi in quite a while, the only one I still use is an emulator station and media streaming device. I’ve been seriously considering getting a RockPro64 to replace my NAS, which is a fantastic option if you want low power, decent performance, small form factor, and expandable IO (it has a PCIe x4 slot).
Sure, but that wasn’t because of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, it was because there was a shortage and resellers jacked up prices. MSRP has been pretty consistent.
I wish you told me this two years ago before I bought one. It was just too underpowered to work for my use case. I was expecting like the power of a low/mid range smartphone.
It was 10x more expensive, but I got a steam deck for my usecase, which involved real time video decode for live streams of sports games. Raspberry Pi kept having micro stutters that made watching sports impossible.
My far cheaper CPU with iGPU can also do hardware video transcoding ;)
I have no doubt there’s something in between a raspberry pi and steam deck that would have worked fine for me. But I also just wanted an excuse to buy a steam deck. 🙂
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The steps are to reduce, reuse, recycle.
Honestly getting cheap old laptops just make more sense for what most people use these for. Emulation on media servers will run just fine on an old thinkpad off eBay. We need to move tech to the Reuse stage
I’ve found recent celeron/pentium and i3 nucs are really great for a balance of low power consumption (<13W) and reasonable performance. Their BIOS allows you to specifically set a power limit and customise other low level things like TAU etc, so you can tune the boost performance to your liking.
It’s a shame Intel discontinued them, the form factor itself was not the only thing setting them apart. The software was well thought out and the hardware just worked 😭
The (6th gen??) ones with programmable ring LEDs are extremely handy for telling system status at a glance, I’ve got three of them 🤫. If i’m not mistaken, a few nuc generations also had onboard GPIOs too?
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Yepp, ASUS is continuing them as far as I know.
I have my doubts that the build quality and BIOS will hold up to an Intel-made device, but I hope i’m proven wrong once reviewers have spent some time with them. I vaguely remember something about Intel manufacturing NUC motherboards only, but I’m not sure if that applies to the arrangement with ASUS
I have the Celeron J3455 ones, can’t recall what idle consumption is but it’s really low. I stopped using the Pi for selfhosting several years back after realising my old atom netbook was faster at that time, and from there I scaled up to desktop systems, but now I’ve scaled right back down to the nucs lol.
I run HA, Plex, Zabbix and a bunch of other small stuff. Currently looking into a selfhosted markdown notes solution, since the hosted one I’m using at the moment (HackMD) is moving further into proprietary territory
They’re also cheap, which is a huge benefit.
But yeah, I haven’t picked up a Pi in quite a while, the only one I still use is an emulator station and media streaming device. I’ve been seriously considering getting a RockPro64 to replace my NAS, which is a fantastic option if you want low power, decent performance, small form factor, and expandable IO (it has a PCIe x4 slot).
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Sure, but that wasn’t because of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, it was because there was a shortage and resellers jacked up prices. MSRP has been pretty consistent.
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I wish you told me this two years ago before I bought one. It was just too underpowered to work for my use case. I was expecting like the power of a low/mid range smartphone.
It was 10x more expensive, but I got a steam deck for my usecase, which involved real time video decode for live streams of sports games. Raspberry Pi kept having micro stutters that made watching sports impossible.
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I have no doubt there’s something in between a raspberry pi and steam deck that would have worked fine for me. But I also just wanted an excuse to buy a steam deck. 🙂
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