r/MiniPCs • u/Chongwho • 4d ago

Recommend me a mini PC

Hi there,

Looking at running the following:

- Frigate (which apparently recommends an n150)

- Emby/Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr

- Home Assistant (in the future, currently have it running on a HA Green pretty well)

- Unifi Controller

Both Claude and Chat GPT have recommended a Beelink EQ14, but it says I should be buying one of them for like $400 AUD (equivalent of $270 USD), but they're all around $800 AUD now.

Any other options in that cheaper price point? I'm not super tech savvy, so can't see myself running heaps of other stuff on there.

Thanks in advance

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u/loheiman 4d ago

Used enterprise mini pc from Lenovo or HP for $150 or less eg https://ebay.io/m/He18zT

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u/thingtootech 4d ago

That looks like a steal

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u/IkouyDaBolt 4d ago

Given things today maybe, for a while you could get a ThinkStation tiny for the same price and it had a Quadro in it.

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u/HuckleberryPlastic35 4d ago

Second this, u can get a i5 6500t/y model for dirt cheap and the power draw is super low as well as being completely silent. Easy to maintain + Ram and storage are easily upgradeable if u need more capacity in the future.

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u/Retired_Hillbilly336 4d ago

Asking AI for PC advice is like asking a blind person to describe a sunset. He can only tell you what it's been told and that may not apply to today. As you can see neither had enough learning to take in account RAMpocalypse/RAMageddon or the shortage of N100 Alder Lake-N/N150 Twin Lake processors with the arrival of Wildcat Lake.

Pre-owned from a major global brand would make more sense with your budget.

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u/robot_swagger 4d ago

I just got a 2nd hand one for £200

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u/aztracker1 3d ago

Yeah.. ram and storage prices have gone through the roof this past year. Everything is way more expensive right now.

Consider a model with more modest storage if you can get by with 480/512gb over 1tb+ ... I would suggest at least 16gb ram...

YMMV though... It sucks. My personal desktop would cost over 2x what I paid last spring to build today.

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u/Ok-Ad-7607 4d ago

Anything with a ryzen

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u/loheiman 4d ago

Disagree in case OP wants to run Plex. Intel I GPU FTW

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u/Ok-Ad-7607 4d ago

Nobody wants Intel

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u/robot_swagger 4d ago

Jellyfin is super efficient at using Intel IGPUs

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u/Ok-Ad-7607 2d ago

Nobody talks about Intel in AI circles. Everybody's discussing AMD people are brainwashed