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Overkill for starter build? (alien.top)

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

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Will this be overkill or otherwise not recommended for someone who is new and just starting to learn?

My goal is to have something I can grow into, but initially I'd like to host a few VMs, game servers, and a have place to store content. I'd also like to host a PLEX server in the future as well but might buy a separate piece of hardware for it specifically down the road. Thanks in advance for taking the time to help a newbie!

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

Honestly I’ve been finding used workstations to be amazing starters and even for light to moderate compute nodes,

My goto currently is the Lenovo p520 they run usually around $200 kitted out and come with usually a skylake xeon workstation cpu and are nearly dead silent.