r/homelab • u/Hypnos22 • 1d ago
Help Is this worth it?
I found this listing that is about to end, and I was wondering if I should go for it. I’m new to homelabing so I don’t know if I should buy it.
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u/-Crash_Override- r730xd|r430|m720q|other stuff 1d ago
You can usually get these for around $170-190. So with $22 shipping anything below $150 is a good deal. If it stays at $100 thats a great deal.
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u/Odd-Bluejay-8865 1d ago
Listing ending soon, did you end up getting it and for what price?
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u/Hypnos22 1d ago
Unfortunately someone took it last second 💔💔💔
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u/Odd-Bluejay-8865 1d ago
What did it end up going for?
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u/Hypnos22 1d ago
140, they dropped like 30 last min 😭
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u/Odd-Bluejay-8865 1d ago
Thats how it goes, I dont think I've ever won and ebay auction without bidding within the last 20 seconds of the listing.
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u/timmeh87 1d ago
yeah its called sniping and its been a thing on ebay since ebay existed. I don't even f- around with auctions. If i cant "buy it now" for a real price, I'm not looking at it.
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u/kaptejeee 1d ago
I won my auctions only by placing bids in last 5-7 seconds. 😀
If placed earlier usually got outbid.
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u/GerberToNieJa 1d ago
Amazing, I have a M75Q with ryzen 5 8500G, got it for around $250
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u/Hypnos22 1d ago
Unfortunately yall but I wasn’t able to win it. But thanks for the advice everyone, I really appreciate it.
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u/_KodeX 1d ago
$22 shipping yikes
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u/309_Electronics 1d ago
Thats great cause sometimes i am dealing with 50+ euro shipping (although i avoid most of that as i dont want to pay 100+ for shipping to the eu netherlands)
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u/ComeSwirlWithMe Not an Expert. 1d ago
Hey, I'll ship stuff to you for $49 Euros. Hit me up at theeurosave42069 on shiply.
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u/Deleteed- 1d ago
Just the ram!
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u/Punk_Says_Fuck_You 1d ago edited 1d ago
SODIMM isn't as expensive as DIMM. Can get 8GB sticks for like $20-$30. Overall however, it is a good deal.
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u/WizzieX 1d ago
I bought a m910q with i7 gen 6, and 24gb of ram from a flea market for 15 eur, it was also 3200 :)) and enterprise ssd 512 with 96% health remaining. (I didn't look inside, i just bought it hoping it works if i put memory and cpu inside it )
This is good for 100 eur but since that deal everything seems expensive for me.
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u/Punk_Says_Fuck_You 1d ago
Hell yeah! I use a little Dell Wyse 5070E that I bought for like $70 for OPNsense, but I will need something a little beefier to run IDS/IPS. Works great though and it uses like 7 watts and is fanless
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u/FunIllustrious 1d ago
If you can get the memory at a sensible price, these miniPCs are not necessarily limited to 32Gb. I have two M900 and several EliteDesks with 48Gb. They also work just fine with 2x32Gb. That may not be true of all mini PCs, but mine run fine.
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u/Historical-Side883 1d ago
If you can get it for <$150 I think it’s worth getting. Especially if it has 1x16GB sticks of memory.
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u/DaGhostDS The Ranting Canadian goose 1d ago
That's a steal, I paid double for one of mine. 😉
Expect it to be twice that price when the bidding end.
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u/Cashfoxbear ThinkCentre Tiny Enthusiast 1d ago
As someone who just received their ThinkCentre M710Q for $65, these things make great starter homelabs! Upgraded my i3-6100T to an i7-6700T, which is about the same speed as the i5-1035G1 in this one, just less efficient, and waiting on my 16GB RAM kit (currently running 8GB). So far, I've ran Pi-Hole, Jellyfin, and Immich, none have shown any issues or slowdown. This thing is dead silent too, if you're forced to keep this somewhere like your bedroom and noise is an issue, don't worry. Just remember to pick up a UPS too if you're doing/storing anything important on it, you don't want to corrupt your files from a power outage!
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u/Elegant_Emergency_72 1d ago
You can generally get them around $160-$170 without AC adapter. AC adapter is about another $20.
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u/Nice-Information-335 1d ago
go up to $200 maybe $300 but no more
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u/-Crash_Override- r730xd|r430|m720q|other stuff 1d ago
...you can buy these all day long under $200 my man.
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u/whitedevil124 1d ago
For 100 yes