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So... which one do I choose?

Alright, not sure how many will circle back, but I’ve narrowed down my choices, as they hit my current thresholds - N150 or equivalent/greater, 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe, and Dual LAN connection.

1st place - Morefine M9S - This caugt my eye, as although because to me it’s a no-name brand, it has a beefiest specs still well within my price range ($270-ish)

2nd place - Pulcro.io TurnKey Two - These guys I just found, and they seem the most… professional? Same specs as the two below.

3rd place - BeeLink EQ14 - Weird that link has it as an N100, clearly shows N150 on the page…

Thoughts?

Amazon.com: MOREFINE M9S Mini PC, 12th Gen Alder Lake N305 (Up to 3.8GHz) 16GB DDR5 RAM 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD, Dual LAN Mini Computer Supports WiFi6 BT5.2, Mini PC Support 4K@60Hz Triple Display for Home-Server : Electronics

Amazon.com: MOREFINE M9S Mini PC, 12th Gen Alder Lake N305 (Up to 3.8GHz) 16GB DDR5 RAM 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD, Dual LAN Mini Computer Supports WiFi6 BT5.2, Mini PC Support 4K@60Hz Triple Display for Home-Server : Electronics

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linkinkampf19 🖤🩶🤍💜🇺🇦Oct 26

So I think I’m gonna pull the trigger and get an N305 based unit. That seems to be the newest kid on the block, and power consumption is well within my limits. The unit I’ve been looking at is a Morefine M9S MiniPC. 8 cores, DDR5, and a decent 512GB NVMe SSD. It also has dual Ethernet, so it’ll be perfect as a pipeline to PiHole.

Anyone have other recs? Probably gonna buy tomorrow.

Amazon.com: MOREFINE M9S Mini PC, 12th Gen Alder Lake N305 (Up to 3.8GHz) 16GB DDR5 RAM 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD, Dual LAN Mini Computer Supports WiFi6 BT5.2, Mini PC Support 4K@60Hz Triple Display for Home-Server : Electronics

linkinkampf19 🖤🩶🤍💜🇺🇦Oct 18

Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole?

https://lemmy.world/post/37541631

Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? - Lemmy.World

Hey all, lurker for a bit, but just joined because I’ve started my journey of self hosting the simple stuff (or at least I hope it’s simple). For the past couple years I’ve been using a RPi Zero W for PiHole, and more recently go into Jellyfin and Home Assistant, using an RPi4 and an RPi3+ respectively. I’ve also got a hand-me-down Synology ds214j NAS with 2x8TB in RAID0, which is about half full atm. I’m not expecting to expand that storage anytime soon, so I’ve pivoted to an attempt at combining the 3 Pis above into one NUC/SFF/etc device with a roughly similar power draw. Also looking at re-jumping back into 3D printing using OctoPrint. I’ve looked briefly at jumping to a Pi5, but that led me down the rabbit hole with Jeff Geerling’s article/video [https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/intel-n100-better-value-raspberry-pi] on Pi vs. NUC. I’ve continued to putter around looking at NUCs in the ~$200 range. Hoping to stick with MinisForum, GMKTek, or Beelink if possible, but only because… it’s all I know. I’d like to also tinker deeper with Linux flavors, as I’m a noob at best with it but want to at least have some growing knowledge, as I’ve primarily been a Windows gamer and use Apple at the office almost exclusively. I’d like to try staying with AMD as I’ve slowly moved over from the “dark side” (don’t hurt me) that is Intel and Nvidia. Last nugget is that I’ve never tinkered with Docker, as it seems that may be the best route to host all these apps on one contiguous installation. I’ve new-ish to VMs too, so anything “Baby’s First VM” would be nice. I know I made a giant pile of wants/needs, so if there’s no magical unicorn, I’m cool with other ideas. Thanks in advance, and I’m really keen on seeing what options I have.

linkinkampf19 🖤🩶🤍💜🇺🇦Oct 22, 2023

AM5 B650M USB dropouts on cold boot

https://lemmy.world/post/7166299

AM5 B650M USB dropouts on cold boot - Lemmy.World

Hey all, just recently treated myself to a new computer build after ~3 years, and I’ve been having nothing but trouble with USB dropouts. Had I done more research prior, I would have known about this issue that seems to have been prevalent since the AM4 days. Thing is, I’ve had great success with my prior build (AM4, Ryzen 7 3700x, 32GB 3600, RX 5700XT, Asrock Steel Legend mATX), so I wasn’t thinking there’d be issue. Been nothing but frustration. Specs: Asrock PG Riptide mATX Seasonic Focus Gold 80+ 750W Ryzen 7 7700 AM5 G.Skill Trident Z 32GB DDR5 6000 (Samsung chips) Asrock RX 7800XT 16GB 2TB Samsung NVMe - 500GB Inland Pro NVMe - 1TB Crucial MX500 SATA - 1TB WD Blue HDD - 4TB WD Blue HDD Windows 11 Pro Thermaltake Core v21 Case So to start it off, the USB dropouts have been… odd. They only seem to happen from a cold boot. It starts with a simple stutter where both my KB+M (wireless 2.4GHz) start lagging and stop any input, then pick back up. Then comes the audio stutter. Slowly but surely, within about 3-5 minutes, the whole system locks up. Upon having to hit the reset button on my case (as everything seizes up), everything works as if there’s no issue whatsoever. Nothing in event viewer to coincide any Windows problems. Hell, I played Starfield for ~6 hours almost non-stop yesterday with nary an issue (although Akila City decided not to load in at once point). The other thing I find rather strange is that I could not get my RAM to reach the XMP 6000 settings, but if I set it to that and then downclock to 5600, I’m stable. Standard frequency is 4800. This issue happens even at the baseline. I’ve tried BIOS upgrades and downgrades, CMOS resets, tweaking the BIOS for the “known causes” of this bug (C-states, RAM timings, etc), and yet no change. I just hope this isn’t coming down to an RMA of the board or whatnot. If there’s anymore info I can provide, please ask.