What are you building?
Pick the job. We'll rank the boxes - and the add-on cards - that fit it, on the spec that actually matters.
Plex / Jellyfin media server
Hardware transcoding for a media library that streams to phones, TVs and away-from-home.
See the best picks →Frigate NVR (security cameras)
Real-time object detection on your camera feeds, recorded locally.
See the best picks →Local AI / LLM host
Run open models (Ollama, LocalAI) on your own GPU instead of paying a cloud API.
See the best picks →General homelab / Proxmox
A stack of VMs and containers - the do-everything virtualization box.
See the best picks →Firewall / router (OPNsense, pfSense)
A low-power box with fast NICs to route and firewall your whole network.
See the best picks →Rankings come from the same curated specs and capacity logic as the calculators - approximate, and a starting point rather than a verdict.