I want to but a new sff/mini pc for running frigate (with a coral usb). Any recommendations for a good deal at the moment (I missed out on a couple recently :( )?
Well Priced Mini Pc Capable of Running Frigate
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Yep - frigate is a nvr. It’s just really about finding a reasonably new intel cpu i believe.
As i have a coral stick, number of cameras is less relevant (there are 5 cameras), except for storage purposes. Re storage I don’t need heaps and can also make use of NAS (Synology) with ssd cache.
Budget… say $500 limit minus storage.
I just did this. I sourced parts over about 3 months so it required a fair bit of patience and work:
Part type Part Name Vendor Price $ Notes Case Fractal Node 304 FB Marketplace 40 Motherboard Asrock z790 itx Amazon AZ shop 280 Got this on rare deal. A lot of builders pan this mobo but I'm not intending to use it for over locking. The extra 2.5G lan helps PSU Silverstone gold 650W Ebay 30 This one is controversial. A lot of people wouldn't take the risk and I'd completely understand. For me, the vendor seemed pretty on the level and it looked brand spanking new. CPU I5 12600k Amazon US 290 Black Friday deal. Overkill for current purpose with room to grow for homelab. Bought for Intel UHD 750 quicksync. Currently used power limited. A cheaper 12500 would do the same thing but there were none at the time. RAM 16x2 Hynix DDR5 4800 FB Marketplace 60 Someone's upgrade leftover from a prebuild. Didn't need fast RAM and this was going to do the job. Could pay $40 more for new. HDD WD 8TB white label shucks Bought a few years ago TPU Coral USB RS components 125 Bought a while ago GPU Nil I might consider a used quadro if my needs increase in future. FWIW, in my 3 months camping for deals (longer if you include planning), I never saw the I3s drop in price and the itx deals were almost non-existent. If you want to get sub $500 on lga1700 and you're patient, you'd need to camp fb marketplace and ebay for the safer parts (ram, case, not psu like I did :)) and look at micro atx boards.
On CPU, the I5 12500 got as low as $259 (has UHD 770 but half your budget). Otherwise you would need to settle for i3 12100 or even a pentium/celeron. Otherwise you'd need to dial back to 10/11 gen.
Hi! Thanks for sharing your list.. how are you finding the power consumption with that setup? Is it important to avoid the UHD 630 iGPUs of 10th Gen and earlier? Because it looks like 8th and 9th gen are where the vast majority of used office mini pcs are at (which is what I was thinking of getting for around $200)
budget, requirements a bit more clearer ??
i assume you meant nvr video camera recording stuff ??