Hard Pass

As part of my Homelab, I have TrueNAS Community Edition running in a big case with a bunch of Frankenstein parts including two GTX 1080s. TrueNAS recently phased out support for these older cards and I've been having to go through and manually install working drivers, which seem to have gotten overwritten on the last update anyway. Since I'm not actually using anything for video output (and have onboard HDMI if needed). One of the cards I am passing through to a VM (where it has no problem being recognized and used). The other card was used by Truenas for my apps.

Do you have any recommendations for hardware to accelerate tasks like Immich, Jellfin transcoding, media fingerprinting for metadata, OCR on bulk-uploaded pdfs etc.?

I was never really a hardware guy, especially when it comes to self-hosting and servers.

• I don't want to play games on my server.
• I don't want to empty my accounts to put a 5090 TI in a server.
• The above tasks are too slow on CPU alone, so I have to put something in it.
• I could keep running the 1080s with manually installed drivers, but it's a PITA and I wouldn't mind not doing that.

Are there reasonable options that can take up the workload, but come in at a decent price point? I know with a server, I don't necessarily have to run the same stuff as gamers. Are there options outside of the typical NVIDIA and AMD gaming linups that would work for my purpose, perhaps acquirable via FB marketplace, Craigslist, etc.? Does your server have video acceleration and, if so, what hardware are you using?

I appreciate any guidance the community can give me.

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Internationally, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have been pursuing the 4F² technology.

SK hynix unveiled its 4F² road map in 2025, while Samsung planned to mass-produce sub-10-nanometre DRAM based on the new design by 2028, according to a report published by Seoul Economic Daily on October 13.

CXMT said it was the first company to complete engineering sample validation of the architecture, and if development continues smoothly, it could become the first company globally to bring 4F²-based products to market.

Taking a shit A huge cockroach comes out of a little hole in the wall facing me It just stands there, then turns sideways and twitches its antenna everywhere Motionlessly stare at it It stops all motion too

Drop a shit in the toilet It drops a shit at pretty much the same time Then it turns around and nonchalantly walks back into the hole

I don't know of any words to accurately describe how this scenario made me feel.

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