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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well.... Thats a beast.

Proxmox. Run multiple VMs. 2 VMs for ubuntu server, run all your containers through that, perhaps kubernetes? This way if your containers go down, they just switch over. Super nice.

Than with all the extra resources... I mean, home lab for fun. Spin up windows server. Diff Linux distro. Learn arch, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

+1 for proxmox. He can also run a Hackintosh VM reliably since he got an AMD GPU.