My edge case is: I wanna spin up an ai-lxc in proxmox. ollama and open webui. using RAM instead of vram. but it should low on power consumption on idle. thats why I want an intel i-9 oder core ultra 9 with maxed out RAM. it idles on low power, but can run bigger ai-models using RAM instead of VRAM. it would be not so fast like with GPUs, but thats OK.
I think a xeon would need more power…much more power in idle. I have an old Xeon E3-1275 v5, 32 GB RAM with a supermicro D3417-B mainboard and it idles about 10 Watts. this is fantastic, I but I don’t think I can get a good newer Xeon with low consumption like this. but I wanna send the old lady to retirement.

Oh, I’m not using it for OMV and Samba. I’m using it for ollama/open webui with RAM instead of VRAM.

sorry, fat fingers on tablet: I mean “open webui”.

For clarification: it’s for a proxmox instance. I wanna use the ram for open webzine/ollama. edit: open webui, not webzine

Thank you! I will look into Gamer’s Nexus.

Thank you! The AMD-Route sounds also promising, but I’m not sure about there idle power consumption. they say that intle is bettle in idle mode. But i’m not sure if proxmox can handle the E-cores properly.