I ran on a Celeron J1900 for a while and for basic home services it was great.
I didn’t do any emulation or media transcoding so I can’t comment there. But I did run vpn / nas / web host kinda stuff.
I got a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q Tiny Intel i7-7700T on eBay for just under $200 USD. Though you can find slightly older less powerful ones for a bit cheaper. It does have a fan, but stays generally pretty quiet unless it's under a super load. It's easy enough to add an M.2 drive and get an 2.5" drive enclosure (I got on amazon).
I agree that x86_64 architecture is much more versatile than arm.
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I do not know where are you from but in Poland Dell Wyse 5070 with J5005 is really cheap and popular for selfhosting. It is really powerful (for passively cooled device) and a couple of my friends are using it for selfhosting Home Assistant
thanks for the suggestion. I ended up buying a N5100, with a case that's a large heat sink, so I hope for the best.
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