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Why not. It has enough power. But you can easily consume all that RAM if you run Minecraft server, or crypto software
But why would you do that on a raspberry?
I mean if you have one already go ahead do your thing! But here we're talking buying a new one.
At that price it's really pointless.
But at normal prices, you can slap passive radiator on it, and have perfectly decent server for these things taped to the wall behind your desk. Zero noise, minimal power consumption, works reliably 24h
Yeah sure, those small pieces are marvels for stuff like that!
It actually saves you decent money compared to regular optiplex. In 24h work power savings translate into meaningfully lower electricity cost over the year.
I think mine is like 10 watts so not very expensive yearly, like 20€. And everyone forgets that for many, it's just energy you'd use for heating anyways during many months of the year.
Yeah, but it's only 100% efficient at best. Heat pumps are 200% - 400% so it is not really a 1 to 1 as far as heating. And in warm months you have to offset that heat so it very well could be a net loss.
Sure, that 20€ will really hit me hard 😁 /j
Nice find about heat pump efficiency, I had not thought about that!
Yeah for a pi not a huge deal. But I've heard people argue it before for larger devices as well.
Yeah people buy a server rack that burns 500 watt all year around will regret it for sure.
Point is that this 20€ annual stacks over the years contributing to the long term cost of your device.
Remove the winter 10€ and it will only need 30 years to go positive! Yay!
Ehhhhh it kinda has enough power.
I have an 8GB Pi5 we use as a desktop in our living room. PiOS is sluggish to navigate, even though it’s an 8GB pi5 running off an NVMe SSD instead of a memory card. It’s just there to stream YT and Twitch and whatnot though, and it streams at 60FPS no problem once you’ve got the stream pulled up.
I wouldn’t recommend it as a desktop PC though, as navigating the OS and loading programs is not a great experience.