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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Those are CPU from, like, 2014… they are definitely “beefy” (ie. needlessly powerful regardless of what you plan to do with them) but not more powerful than modern mid-range CPUs (which have way lower TDP).

    This is not to mean that the server is necessarily a bad deal (how much is it?)… there’s lot of stuff on top of the CPU, but you should definitely factor in the electricity cost (especially if you are not the one paying for it and/or are sensitive to climate issues) and see if you can maybe buy a more “humble” server with a modern CPU and fewer, bigger drives (each hdd consumes more or less the same amount of power, regardless of capacity).

    Oh, make sure to check if those old CPUs have hardware-accelearted video codecs if you plan to do transcoding!

    Also, make sure to compare prices from ebay.