Hi,

So after a couple months of saving I am looking at building my first homelab server using proxmox or going unraid. Now My current desktop is and AMD 5700G with 32GB DDR4-3600 & NVIDIA 3070 12gb with Asrock B550 motherboard which is what I use for daily activities.

Since this will be holding a large number of drives (16) the bulk use of it will be plex media server or jellyfin. I also plan to run some VM’s & Dockers as well.

I’m debating on doing an intel i5 11th/12th gen build with onboard graphics for video transcoding, and encoding as I do make videos for youtube, facebook… with motherboard, ddr5 and lsi raid card flashed to IT mode.

Or should I just upgrade my desktop to a newer intel 14th gen or ryzen 7000x series with board & ram and use the 5700g as my homelab server?

I do have a 1660ti I can put in it as well.

As for case either 4U Rackmount or Fractal Meshify, more leaning to the Meshify.

  • RymdLord@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That will be a beast of a server but you will miss out on server features. I have a server with I7 2600 and 32GB DDR3.

  • InvestigatorOk114@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have a pair of 5700g 128gb ram proxmox servers for running vm’s and docker.

    Couldn’t get the igpu on the 5700g to pass through properly on proxmox, so ended up running truenas scale bare on an Intel e-2224g (dell t40) and using the igpu with the plex app/plugin.