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Running a gaming pc as a server? (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I am getting the following pc and would like to also run a server. Power consumption is no issue as I pay a fixed amount rent, no utilities/electricity on top. I am also able to fully control port forwarding (no CGNAT). I am wondering if this will cause harm to the PC, if so how much harm?

Lenovo Legion Tower 5
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900 (3.70 GHz up to 5.40 GHz)
GPU: RTX 4070 Ti 12GB GDDR6X
Ram: 32 GB DDR5-5200MHz (UDIMM) - (2 x 16 GB)
SSD: 1 TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Performance TLC

I would want to keep it on all the time since I would like to install like moonlight to stream games, and possibly also remotely access it to run machine learning algorithms. Along with that, I want it to host maybe a plex or some kind of media (at least file sharing) server so most of the time there is going to be hardly any usage. I was also thinking of kasm for certain apps which don't run on my rasp pi's (due to ARM)

What do you guys think?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'd up the RAM to 64GB and run the extra stuff in Hyper-V that way it's easy to keep your gaming OS clean and prioritize services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Why not - I used to add my previous gaming machines to my homelab multiple times. The only problems are cheap mainboards. Lenovos Legion Rebuilds I don't know enough about to say if their hardware is ok for that - their workstations would better be suited, I gues. But usually I'd say: why not. Just remeber to have regular backups in place, just in case

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Sell it and buy a better suited pc? Or just sell the GPU ^^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hmm but have you thought about power consumption? $$$

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I do this. Gaming on Windows on NVME, When I want to lab I boot esxi from usb. Have second SSD for the esxi data store.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

There are things that real server hardware does fasger/better, but there is no reason why old gaming hardware can't be a fileserver, router, firewall, gateway, etc... It'll do Just Fine (TM) at it for home use.