Advice on building Home Server

[dire lichen]

great specs

have not seen anything better

better then mine even

[alpine terrace]

You really think so?. Am just getting into the whole having my own server after years of watching ltt vids, one of my concerns is will 8 core be enough for my testing new things and stuff? And if I wanna upgrade will I have to purchase new everything or I can just upgrade parts?

[dire lichen]

i was joking

i cant see jack shit

as the bot got angry over something

[dire lichen]

unless you are transcoding even a n100 is overkill for most

[alpine terrace]

Bruh fr... Yeah the bot for angry for something... Wait lemme try again...

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO (supports up to 128GB RAM)
RAM: Starting with 1x32GB DDR4 3200MHz, plan to expand to 128GB
Storage: SSDs for cache/boot, HDDs for mass storage (planning ZFS)
GPU: Still deciding, mainly for light LLM and media decode
Case + PSU: Not finalized, open to suggestions
OS: Planning to use TrueNAS SCALE

And this is what I wanna do.

NAS with ZFS and snapshots

Media server (Jellyfin or Plex, 4K support if possible)

Home Assistant (smart home automation)

Local DNS and DHCP (so I don’t have to set hosts files manually across devices) — thinking of running a router stack in a VM

LLM playground (running small models like TinyLlama, Mistral)

A Linux VM for general experimentation and testing

[dire lichen]

a a310 can do 4 4k streams ez pz

only thing there that needs cpu would be the linux VM

the rest are light af

but with a LLM what i plan on doing myself even is getting some used 3060

ofc 12GB version

[dire lichen]

i suspect those parts are ones you already own?

[alpine terrace]

Nope... Imma start fresh

[dire lichen]

12100 NOT F can be a good move

[alpine terrace]

I went Ryzen for their unofficial ecc support...

Am a blue team guy but the ecc was the only fact made me choose Ryzen

[dire lichen]

the only issue is that its not really ecc support

it claims to be it but it does not offer the kinda ecc people want

also been running non ecc for the past year with zero issues

i am going to say it, ECC is only worth it for xeons and epycs

[robust pollen]

What? What do you mean

[robust pollen]

Planning to upgrade to 128GB? Do you think you’ll need that much? Also, imo, a hypervisor like proxmox would be better for a do-it-all home server than truenas scale, especially with a gpu

[robust pollen]

Yeah I’ve also been running it for a couple years without issue

[alpine terrace]

That's a really good insight...

[alpine terrace]

I can my end goal is bigger than what I can do with proxmox, am a software and AI engineer, I wanna get my hands dirty with servers...

Now am a little thrown off. Went Ryzen just for the ecc support, should I still go with Ryzen? One reason why I think I can stick with Ryzen is it's cheaper than intel and not as power hungry as intel. Thoughts? What cpu will you guys recommend?

[marsh shard]

Big boy want performance get the threadripper big boy big pocket big performance

[dire lichen]

You can't say anything

[marsh shard]

Small boy small performance get the i9 14900k or Ryzen 9 9950X3D
For gpu go with dual RTX 5090

[dire lichen]

You do not even want a GPU in your pc

[marsh shard]

It's just for my work,doesn't mean I don't know anything about pc

[dire lichen]

Get out of here

[marsh shard]

Yeah right... Dude if your the guy who thinks everyone needs a gpu then get out too

Cuz fun fact I do work that's cpu heavy

Not gpu intensive

[dire lichen]

Well what

[marsh shard]

You just need to stop the cap bro,not everyone is into gaming

[dire lichen]

Gaming is the smallest use case for a GPU

[marsh shard]

I do programming ok? I need multithreading more than anything

[dire lichen]

There we have it

[marsh shard]

So that's why I don't wanna waste money for gpu

[dire lichen]

Not fully a waste but yes for that there is no major benefit to having a GPU

[marsh shard]

See? Now you get MY specific work case

[dire lichen]

Anyhow do not go into other people threads and just be annoying

[dire lichen]

100$ laptop could be just as good

Well

Ok fine maybe not fully

Up to how much you need to compile

[marsh shard]

I aint,I am a pc nerd aswell,just cuz I don't want a gpu doesn't mean I know no shit

[marsh shard]

Hell nah

[dire lichen]

Anyways get out of his thread

[marsh shard]

Nope

I am tryna help

Your not the only one

Anyways

[marsh shard]

Look if your running LLM you need both GPU AND NPU

[dire lichen]

No

[marsh shard]

He did mention Large LLM so I'm thinking 200B+

For that atleast 30 TFLOPS would be necessary

[dire lichen]

Question is speed

Then

Anyways mans on am4

[marsh shard]

Hell nah

[robust pollen]

Get out of here

[marsh shard]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pjbpv4
This thing is on fire
Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF(with NPU)
192GB RAM DDR5-5600
2TB 990 PRO SSD
32 TB HDD
5070 TI 16GB VRAM
1200W PSU
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pjbpv4

[marsh shard]

Cry about it

[dire lichen]

No quick sync??

[marsh shard]

I mean,this is the best i could find for sub 2500

[dire lichen]

He does not have 2500???

[marsh shard]

How much is his budget tho

[dire lichen]

not 2500

[robust pollen]

This is exactly why you need to get out of here because you’re only cluttering up the thread

[marsh shard]

Your name says all about you Creep

[robust pollen]

Explain

[marsh shard]

I ain't even talking to you and your crying like a karen

[robust pollen]

???

[alpine terrace]

Let's say 800 min... Can go upto 1000...

[marsh shard]

I mean that won't let you run more than 2 displays considering the price of pc is a 5070 ti

[dire lichen]

what???

[alpine terrace]

Let's not being gpu into the mix right away. I want a solid base first which I can upgrade down the line...

I considered all the things. My mentality is, if I see something I'll wanna try it and my interest is getting into the server area and I want my first server to be a good sport that can support my needs

[dire lichen]

rixx is a troll my guy

[robust pollen]

Can we ban them somehow?

[marsh shard]

Yeah try it,bet I broke a rule or two

[alpine terrace]

Guys 🫠🥹 I just want an idea on what parts I should pick.

[dire lichen]

Could just do tbh any cpu with like a 3060 12GB and just enjoy