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What should I do with spare PC? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by musclegeekz@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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I have a gaming PC that’s been sitting around and have been thinking about finding ways to use it.

Specs:

CPU: i9 9900K
RAM: 64 GB DDR4
GPU: RX6700

My “homelab” - if you can even call it that - is pretty basic. I have:

RPi 4 running Pi-Hole and TeslaMate
Synology DS218 to backup phones and pcs

Should I repurpose my old gaming PC to a Proxmox machine and run everything off that 1 machine?

What else can/should I consider hosting?

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[–] chrishch@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

With that much RAM, maybe buy a few NAS drives during Black Friday and use it as a NAS. Get an HBA card if you don't have enough SATA ports, and put TrueNAS on it. ZFS loves lots of memory.