I bought a used 8th gen intel NUC a few weeks ago, and was surprised by what I got for the price.

110€ for 8GB of RAM, an m.2 slot with a 240GB SSD and a 7781 Passmark multi-core score i5-8259U with a GPU usable for stuff like frigate but also QuickSync transcoding.

Plus a second DIMM slot to upgrade to 16GB RAM for another 30€. Plus a SATA Port. Thunderbolt. WiFi/Bluetooth, and ~4.7W Idle power consumption.

For all the "HW has gotten so expensive", that.. kinda isn't? I mean it's still 8 year old used hardware, but it's also perfectly fine still performance-wise. And it's just some x86 thing, so it runs mainline linux.

For reference, the N100 mentioned in the article has a passmark multi-core score of 5305. Granted, it also has a TDP of 6W, but still.

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vladgur 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Have you measured how much energy it uses once you have your frigate continuously recording and go2rtc multiplexing all the streams

	▲	hypfer 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't use it for that. I just put the option there for the context of the thread. In my setup, Frigate runs on some 6th gen Intel desktop chip with a coral accelerator that regularly dies, however, on this old mainboard, it does not take the whole USB controller with it (contrary to the 9th gen intel host I've used previously). I couldn't tell you how much of that system's power draw is frigate as it does a lot of stuff beyond just that.

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Hikikomori 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just upgraded from 7th gen NUC to a new bee link with the new intel Core 3 304, 16GB ram, 500GB ssd for $469 (EU price), my NUC was struggling with jellyfin and some 4k content. The old NUC cost $410 in todays $ without memory and ssd, so maybe $550-580 with those included.