Hello everyone, I posted a couple of days asking for some advice on alternatives to RPi’s for self-hosting.
I guess I got VERY lucky and managed to buy the following setup from a surplus website for cheap (~$300). Here is the setup:
MOBO:
MSI B550 Gaming Plus
CPU:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 4th Gen (8-Core, 16-Threads, unlocked)
GPU:
NVIDIA GeoForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GDDR6
RAM:
24GB (weird number but okay). They are all Corsair brand, not sure about the bandwidth and timing on them, haven’t had the chance to play around with them yet.
Storage:
512GB Samsung SSD
PSU:
650W (again, haven’t gotten to dig into the gritty-nitty details)
So far, on my random RPi’s, I have PiHole+Unbound, Homebridge, Wireguard server (will probably keep those three on a dedicated RPi), SearXNG, Paperless-NGX, Lemmy (duh), Nextcloud, Uptime Kuma, Plex (+Debrid) Server, Jackett, and a couple of other services I can’t really recall of the top of my head.
What and how would you recommend I set up my newest acquisition to host my services? Any specific OS to run to best handle all of this efficiently and with ease? It already came with Windows 10 pre-installed (and I’d like to keep it because my Ph.D. research uses many programs only available on Windows, SMH)
That’s a hell of a good deal!
You could install Docker on windows, that would make hosting most common services pretty easy. Hyper-V would let you run VMs if you needed to for some reason.
The setup seems quite beefy relative to anything I ever owned. I understand that my power bill will be more costly if I leave this running 24/7.
Compared to 4 RPi’s running 24/7, how much more energy do you suppose I’ll be expending?
I ask because my basic understanding of electrical engineering states that my system will only draw as much power as it needs (not the full rated 650W), so I’m not really sure how that compares to all 4 RPi’s running.
That depends on how much load it’s under. Idle power will probably be around 50 watts. Fully loaded, it will be several hundred.
You got a nice gaming computer, but it will be expensive to run 24/7 for use as a server.
You’re correct that it won’t draw 650W. You could get a power meter or a power measuring plug and measure the energy consumption.