Hi everybody!
I want to move my selfhosted services from a VPS to a PC in my house.
I have an E5-2620 and a it-6700K, which one would you pick and why?
The E5 already has 2 PCI-X each with 4 NIC (that I need to use with OpnSense to share my Internet connection with my neighbor) that I would need to throw away and buy as PCIe for the i7.
Thanks!

  • @peregusOP
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    2 days ago

    I’m assuming the xeon comes with ECC ram?

    Yes, it does.

    Since you’re just looking to make a router the xeon would be my tentative choice.

    No no, it willwork ALSO as router, but it will have about 15/20 Dockers containers.
    It’s not that loud, but it will be placed in a dedicated small room under the roof.

    • Toes♀
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      22 days ago

      I’m assuming you’re talking about version 1 of the 2620.

      Although the xeon is the weaker processor, if you’re planning on having those containers active together the larger thread count will potentially be more beneficial than the faster i7.

      But this is one of those things where you’d need to test against both and see. Since there’s a bunch at play.

      • @peregusOP
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        22 days ago

        I’m assuming you’re talking about version 1 of the 2620.

        Nope, V2.

        Although the xeon is the weaker processor, if you’re planning on having those containers active together the larger thread count will potentially be more beneficial than the faster i7.

        This is what I thought, before @[email protected] pointed me to the quicksync of the i7 (I will have a Jellyfin container).

        • Toes♀
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          22 days ago

          Oh thanks I must have missed that in the title.

          The xeon does have more cache too. So if the GPU acceleration is the make or break it option. You could toss a card in there.

          • @peregusOP
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            220 hours ago

            What kind of a card do you think that could do the job? There will be 2 maximum 3 people watching Jellyfin.

            • Toes♀
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              218 hours ago

              I haven’t tried setting up jellyfin myself. However, if you’re able to use pcie passthrough on your container, you could probably use any spare card you might have? (assuming it fits and your psu can handle it)

              • @peregusOP
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                111 hours ago

                I’ll do some testing during the Christmas holiday. Thanks!