I'm considering building a home server which I kinda want to use as a private git forge, but maybe also distributed compiler and maybe other things.
And I want it passively cooled with a thermal budget of around 100W for the CPU.
But what I do wonder about is what CPU to choose. Do we have proper ARM boards now in the ITX form factor? Should I go with AMD or Intel? What are the power efficient options here and what option has the lower idle power consumption?
@karolherbst I'm using HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus, with updated CPU. Have pcie slot, remote management capability(paid add-on), very small (sits on my desk, no problems) and quiet.
@karolherbst for just a git server a raspi would be enough, but you are limited by RAM in the long run, so I would recommend AMD AM4 or AM5, depending on your budget.
@karolherbst 100W is kinda a lot, so you should be able to get well under that. Modern AMD and Intel desktop parts both tend to idle quite high, AMD a bit higher, but generally speaking it's not hugely impactful either way. No idea about arm dev boars though. I wouldn't really expect that they're vastly different in practice.
@karolherbst I would recommend seeking out actual numbers from people who have used that specific cooler with similar CPUs, my expectation is that unless you're in ideal conditions you might struggle to hit the advertised numbers :')
@dotstdy because you get more perf by having more threads. I could get a "14600T" but then I have 20 instead of 28 threads and just save a little bit of money. Something like the 14900T would be overkill tho.
Storage and all the other stuff will be the more expensive part of all of this anyway.
@karolherbst@dotstdy Feels like the integrated graphics on Raptor Lake are a bit wasted in headless server use case... That said, I don't have enough experience to recommend specific Xeons either.