Dreamerbydesign
Supreme [H]ardness
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- Feb 3, 2008
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Greetings guys and gals.
It’s been a minute since I’ve had a home lab. But I’m looking to buy something if possible, better than what I have now.
Current server I built from spare parts:
Intel 8700t cpu
Evga Z370 few motherboard
32gb DDR4 ram
Tier A 850w psu
Quadro p400 2gb gpu
NzXT h510 case
Hyper 212 “silent” cooler - may swap for a Arctic Liquid Freezer 280 AIO so it’s quieter…
I have someone interested in converting this to a gaming pc. So I’m wondering, can I be on the lookout for a used server that may better fit my needs?
What I currently run: (will obv change in future)
-proxmox on bare metal
-windows 10 vm
-windows 11 vm (for testing)
-at least a Linux distro spun up, usually mint or Ubuntu
-xpenology (for testing)
I have no idea anything about workstations, servers or things like Xeon processors besides the basics. I don’t know their naming scheme. I do know what ecc memory is etc.
Is there a certain model of reliable, decent enough server I could be looking for used? Power efficiency also matters to me. This is just for fun. I build what I did above specifically with efficiency in mind as well as performance when needed.
Anyone have any suggested models to look for? Could be a tower or even rack, but I’m guessing a rack mount would be much louder. It’s going in a basement, but still I can’t have a jet plane in my house my wife would kill me.
Thanks for help in advance if anyone reads through this all.
It’s been a minute since I’ve had a home lab. But I’m looking to buy something if possible, better than what I have now.
Current server I built from spare parts:
Intel 8700t cpu
Evga Z370 few motherboard
32gb DDR4 ram
Tier A 850w psu
Quadro p400 2gb gpu
NzXT h510 case
Hyper 212 “silent” cooler - may swap for a Arctic Liquid Freezer 280 AIO so it’s quieter…
I have someone interested in converting this to a gaming pc. So I’m wondering, can I be on the lookout for a used server that may better fit my needs?
What I currently run: (will obv change in future)
-proxmox on bare metal
-windows 10 vm
-windows 11 vm (for testing)
-at least a Linux distro spun up, usually mint or Ubuntu
-xpenology (for testing)
I have no idea anything about workstations, servers or things like Xeon processors besides the basics. I don’t know their naming scheme. I do know what ecc memory is etc.
Is there a certain model of reliable, decent enough server I could be looking for used? Power efficiency also matters to me. This is just for fun. I build what I did above specifically with efficiency in mind as well as performance when needed.
Anyone have any suggested models to look for? Could be a tower or even rack, but I’m guessing a rack mount would be much louder. It’s going in a basement, but still I can’t have a jet plane in my house my wife would kill me.
Thanks for help in advance if anyone reads through this all.