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At that price, you're better off buying a NUC or an older dell beige box.

At that price, you're better off buying a NUC or an older dell beige box.

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Yep. I snagged an older i3 desktop from a former employer, 512GB Samsung SSD, 32GB or RAM...it's slated to replace most of the SBCs I have in operation simply because the x86, even as an i3, has more oomph than the ARM CPUs will ever have.

The board can take a 5th gen i5, so I may see if I can upgrade it to it's full power with 64GB.

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My recent change was to move my HomeAssistant over to a VM on my ProxMox setup. It makes it more HA and the RPI4 was starting to struggle with the amount of stuff I have it doing.

I now use a older RPI3 as a USB over IP host so I can have things like my ConbeeII served over the network so my HomeAssistant can be migrated to any host in the cluster without losing access to the Conbee.

Its way faster and more robust in this configuration. I will probably repurpose the RPI4 for some other project that it is more suited for, just not sure what yet.