LGA 1151 Mini PC ?

[jakey1479]

Hi All, 

 

Currently I have a standard ITX PC running as my home server which i use for random projects and media etc. I am moving at of home into my own place and now I'm not paying the electricity bill I would like to get something more efficient an smaller lol. 

 

My ideal would be to find a barebones mini PC that I can move my CPU and SSD into, does anyone know of any mini PCs that use LGA 1151 sockets (my specific CPU is an 8th Gen i7) ? I believe there are Lenovo and other brand mini PCs that do have removable CPUs and I would love to find one that is compatible with my current CPU. I appreciate no one will make one anymore as this is older tech now, but im hoping if I have some model numbers I can hunt something down on ebay. 

 

Any help or advice appreciated. 

 

Many Thanks, 

Jake

[PDifolco]

With the same CPU how do you expect to have less power consumption??

An old i7 is pretty inefficient by today's standard, rather get some mini PC with a laptop chip

[Needfuldoer]

Which i7 do you have? Cooling is the biggest limitation for prebuilt mini PCs, so they usually come with i3s, i5s, or the T variants of i7s that have a low capped TDP.

 

Dell, HP, and Lenovo all make tiny office machines that should take your CPU, but may require SODIMMs for RAM.

 

https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/

 

For the form factor, modern low-end parts make more sense than reusing the old CPU. Even the lowly Intel N100 is about as fast as a Skylake quad-core on paper.

[jaslion]

2 hours ago, jakey1479 said:

Hi All, 

 

Currently I have a standard ITX PC running as my home server which i use for random projects and media etc. I am moving at of home into my own place and now I'm not paying the electricity bill I would like to get something more efficient an smaller lol. 

 

My ideal would be to find a barebones mini PC that I can move my CPU and SSD into, does anyone know of any mini PCs that use LGA 1151 sockets (my specific CPU is an 8th Gen i7) ? I believe there are Lenovo and other brand mini PCs that do have removable CPUs and I would love to find one that is compatible with my current CPU. I appreciate no one will make one anymore as this is older tech now, but im hoping if I have some model numbers I can hunt something down on ebay. 

 

Any help or advice appreciated. 

 

Many Thanks, 

Jake

Just changing to a mini pc form factor wont lower the power draw. The big power draw in your system is the cpu and if you dont change that the power draw would be basically identical. Or well it would take 50 years of nonstop running to see those 2 watts saved finally save you more money than you spent on changing the hardware.

 

Those usff systems (its what they are typically called) CANNOT cool and some cant even run a full fledged i7 8700(k) if its not the T version as the power draw is FAR too much.

 

If you want to lower power draw legit just undervolt the i7 you have now on those mini pcs you usually cannot do that. That will save you the most power by far

[OddOod]

Honestly, how much are you paying for power?