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In my server I currently have an Intel i7 9th gen CPU with integrated Intel video.

I don't use or need A.I. or LLM stuff, but we use jellyfin extensively in the family.

So far jellyfin worked always perfectly fine, but I could add (for free) an NVIDIA 2060 or a 1060. Would it be worth it?

And as power consumption, will the increase be noticeable? Should I do it or pass?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Could be an interesting project tough, will definitely think about that. Not top priority, but why not since the hardware its free?

[–] Deway 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Power consumption, if you care about that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Yes, but if I can stream games to my mobile device that could be an acceptable treadeoff, if the card doesn't drain too much when idle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I would avoid it, if you care at all about availability and downtime. The result will probably not be great, you need to ensure the server side gets enough resources under load, and setting it up may require constant restarts if things aren’t immediately working as expected.

Nonetheless, here is a link where someone did essentially exactly that on NixOS: https://astrid.tech/2022/09/22/0/nixos-gpu-vfio/