Spec me the cheapest, smallest Linux build

pumaz · 27 Nov 2016 at 23:18

As tittle really, will be used for Kodi, downloading, zipping and unzipping.

Will be doing lots of archiving and extracting of large files so must do this reasonably quickly. Won't be used for gaming and already have a hard drive. I considered the Nuc and Brix but I don't know if the cheaper Atom based ones would be enough and the full fat ones work out quite expensive by the time you've added memory etc. So open to anything but Don't really want to go larger than Mini ITX.

My max budget is £200 but closer to £150 would be better

Thanks

TrojanWhore · 28 Nov 2016 at 19:02

you seen this?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ron-baytrail-ddr3-barebones-pc-fs-004-gi.html

the CPU is 2c/2t, and was all I could find on OCUK iun your budget

pumaz · 29 Nov 2016 at 18:03

Thanks but I think the N2807 CPU in the Brix will be too underpowered for my needs

Biz.Kid09 · 29 Nov 2016 at 18:05

You won't get much faster at that budget unfortunately.

Have you had a look at using a laptop? Probably get an older i5 model that you can just close the lid on and run headless. Depends if you mind second hand I guess.