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Silent home server

A low-power 16 GB box for an always-on household assistant. Tuned for idle draw, not peak speed.

Home server
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    • Estimate Calculated with the published formulas; not a measurement.
    • Sample Placeholder data for layout; not a real figure.
    • Not yet measured No public, citable score found for this benchmark yet. We never fill the gap with a guess.

    Verified metadata is not a measured performance result. Only cited runs matching model, device, quant and recorded context can replace speed estimates. Estimates assume one stream and F16 KV cache, with a ±25% uncertainty band. A published run applies only to its recorded runtime and conditions; missing settings are unknown.

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$1,283
complete-system parts, USDSample
27.7tok/s
Qwen3 8BEstimate
230W
at load; 30 W idle
6.6months
illustrative break-even against a $200/month plan

Includes the listed system parts. Excludes tax, shipping, peripherals, maintenance, financing and resale. Sample parts prices may differ from current hardware catalogue prices. Electricity assumes 230 W whole-system load for 4 h and 30 W idle for 20 h daily, 30 days at $0.15/kWh. Power is unmeasured.

Parts list

Sample parts and prices for layout.

Part
Item
Price, USD
GPUGeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB (power-limited to 150 W)$449Sample
CPURyzen 5 8600G$179Sample
MotherboardB650 mini-ITX$169Sample
Memory32 GB DDR5-5600 (2×16)$99Sample
Storage2 TB NVMe Gen4$119Sample
PSU550 W SFX 80+ Platinum$129Sample
CaseFanless-friendly ITX case$139Sample

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Expected speed

Reference models, default quant, 8k context.

Model
Verdict
tok/s
Qwen3 8BFits27.7Estimate
gpt-oss-20bFits75.5Estimate
Qwen3 14BFits16.7Estimate

Break-even card

Electricity $6.84/month (230 W × 4 h + 30 W idle × 20 h, $0.15/kWh).

Plan
Price / month
Months to break even
ChatGPT Plus$2097.5
Claude Pro$2097.5
Google AI Pro$19.9997.6
Claude Max (5×)$10013.8
ChatGPT Pro 100$10013.8
Google AI Ultra (5×)$99.9913.8
Claude Max (20×)$2006.6
ChatGPT Pro 200$2006.6
Google AI Ultra (20×)$199.996.6
ChatGPT Pro 500 (top tier)$5002.6

Break-even = hardware ÷ (plan − electricity). It ignores capability: a local model is not a frontier model. Adjust the numbers.