I have to say your current computer is more than powerful enough for your current uses and I would advise saving your money instead, perhaps instead just buy a SSD for the primary drive and some storage disks for storage. Your current system is also pre-PSP so it lacks AMD's version of the evil ME thus I very much suggest keeping it.
If you insist on upgrading I would consider: * The OpenPOWER9 TALOS 2 Lite which is an owner controlled open source firmware workstation (the only blob is the NIC firmware which they are working on freeing[1]) - the base 4 core CPU idles at around 10W. [1]It was considered a better choice than using an intel NIC, and the system IOMMU protects from potential malicious DMA. * Another good choice is the KCMA-D8 which is the last and best owner controlled x86 motherboard that supports libre firmware via coreboot-libre or libreboot - as you are using it for a low power server I suggest obtaining one of the low power "EE" series 43xx CPU's with their max 35W TDP which idle at around 20W per 4 cores and are good enough to watch 1080p movies on. The KCMA-D8 can now use OpenBMC[2] if you obtain the optional ASMB4 or ASMB5 BMC firmware storage module. I have a few of the pre-PSP Socket C32 computers and I am quite satisfied with them and their power consumption, which is much better than the Socket G34 systems such as the KGPE-D16. [2] The KGPE-D16 and KCMA-D8 have the facebook OpenBMC whereas the TALOS 2 has the better (in terms of features) IBM OpenBMC however both are a secure open source remote access solution which is much better than the proprietary junk shipped with the modules. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
