I’m considering setting up a home lab and truly self-hosting my own services. Unfortunately, my budget is limited to around $100-$150. I’m wondering if the HP Elitedesk mini PC is suitable for this purpose. I’m particularly looking at the HP Elitedesk 800 G3 or G5 models. Unfortunately, finding these devices in Dhaka has been challenging. So far, I’ve found a G3 on bikroy.com, but it comes with a 6th gen i7 CPU.
Those are great little PCs, I have a G3 and a G4 (plus a handful of other minis and SFFs).
If you can, grab an i7-7700T off eBay, it’s maybe $60 at the top end. It’ll drop right in.
@lka1988 Sometimes delivery charge is higher than the product itself when ordering from Bangladesh :) … Also customs processing will take a while. I found a G4 with i5 in a local store.
Ah, gotcha. Well, the G4 w/i5 is more than plenty to get started.