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I haven’t tried setting up jellyfin myself. However, if you’re able to use pcie passthrough on your container, you could probably use any spare card you might have? (assuming it fits and your psu can handle it)

Oh thanks I must have missed that in the title.

The xeon does have more cache too. So if the GPU acceleration is the make or break it option. You could toss a card in there.

I’m assuming you’re talking about version 1 of the 2620.

Although the xeon is the weaker processor, if you’re planning on having those containers active together the larger thread count will potentially be more beneficial than the faster i7.

But this is one of those things where you’d need to test against both and see. Since there’s a bunch at play.

I’m assuming the xeon comes with ECC ram?

I’d decide based on how loud it’s gonna make my homelab, if I get to use ECC ram and the type of workload being applied.

Since you’re just looking to make a router the xeon would be my tentative choice.

So it depends. For example some legacy apple stuff had a bad DHCP implementation where it would try to hold onto an IP address it had before.

When there’s one DHCP server with a reserved ip it won’t assign that ip to the wrong device. (Unless you’re running some buggy software that takes your configuration as suggestions)

Where the advice to set it anyways comes from scenarios where that DHCP server goes down for long enough that everyone starts self assigning addresses. It’s a real hassle to find the correct system when that happens.

My clients when they text me the server is down.