July 28, 20232 yr Hello, all. I could use some advice and feedback on my next build with the goal of running it for the next 5+ years with little maintenance and reasonable power consumption. Beyond local shares I plan to use it to run a bunch of useful containers including Jellyfin, Nextcloud, some Home Automation and Photosync and may dabble in VMs as there is a lot of horsepower here. Some 4K transcoding too. Here are my 2 options: Option 1: Used build off Kijiji ($800 CAN) cash see photo i9 9900k CPU - Corsair Water Cooling MSI RTX 2080 ti Duke GPU 16 gb Corsair DDR4 Ram Corsair RMX Series 750x, 80+ Gold PSU Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro Wifi Motherboard CM Storm Trooper - Gaming Full Tower Computer Case with Handle pros: fast / lots of cores / decent GPU / lots of drive bays / iGPU and dGPU / 6 SATA ports and 2 NVME cons: ~3yrs old / likely power hungry / liquid cooling (scares me) / needs more RAM / bulky tower / much older chipset Option 2: buy mostly new (~1200) i5-13600k DeepCool AK620 air cooler ASRock Z790 PRO RS, Intel 13th & 12th Gen, DDR5 6800+ G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 Corsair RM750x PSU Fractal Define R6 (used) Pros: new parts / has P and E cores / decent iGPU / lower power consumption / 8 SATA ports and 4 NVME /lots of 3.5” expansion trays Cons: cost / will require time to source and build The HDD disks I already own, but intend to invest into SSDs to speed everything up That’s all I can think of. My goal here is longevity and stability and a $400 difference won’t make or break either way. Would really appreciate this community's thoughts based on your experiences. Edited July 28, 20232 yr by vvolfson
July 28, 20232 yr Not really know how 9900k build use lot of power or 13600k can save how much for same task / work load. My 9700k build only use 30w ( no heavy job duty ) 2x 3.5 6TB 1x 2.5 1TB SSD 2x NVMe 2TB and 1TB 64G memory 10G NIC SFX PSU Coolermaster NR200P ( smaller then matx ) Edited July 28, 20232 yr by Vr2Io
July 28, 20232 yr Author 1 hour ago, Vr2Io said: Not really know how 9900k build use lot of power or 13600k can save how much for same task / work load. My 9700k build only use 30w ( no heavy job duty ) 2x 3.5 6TB 1x 2.5 1TB SSD 2x NVMe 2TB and 1TB 64G memory 10G NIC SFX PSU Coolermaster NR200P ( smaller then matx ) My thinking was more towards the additional power for the the liquid cooler and the 2080 ti. Though at idle, it may not be all that much. Tx.
July 29, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, vvolfson said: My thinking was more towards the additional power for the the liquid cooler and the 2080 ti. Though at idle, it may not be all that much. Tx. I'd assume @Vr2Io hasn't noticed the 2080 ti and was just comparing processors. And yeah, steer away from liquid coolers in a NAS environment. IMO, option 2 is the way - no contest.
July 29, 20232 yr Author 11 hours ago, Lolight said: I'd assume @Vr2Io hasn't noticed the 2080 ti and was just comparing processors. And yeah, steer away from liquid coolers in a NAS environment. IMO, option 2 is the way - no contest. Noted. Also buying used could be a can of worms. Going with Option 2 for sure!
August 6, 20232 yr If you are going to use it for virtualization I would skip e-cores and go for i5-12500. I would skip K processor and DDR5. Have a look at Gigabyte MW34-SP0 motherboard, let's you use ECC with Intel core cpu. *If you are building some sort of gaming PC ignore my comments.
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