February 2, 20179 yr Hello everybody, I need a new home server, but don't have too much money for it: about 500 USD for the whole server. I want to use it for the following things: Plex server NAS Torrent server HTPC (Windows 10 or SteamOS as a VM) various game servers (for example ARK, Factorio etc.) Unraid looks perfect for me, so my question is about the hardware. I found a nice used opteron server with the following components for 200 usd: MB: MSI MS-91F7 CPU: 2x AMD 4274 HE RAM: 4x8GB DDR3 ECC PSU: Seasonic SS400H1U The rest of the budget is for a few hard drives, and a videocard for the Windows VM. Is this rig worth it's money? I'm living in a small country in Central Europe, so I don't have a big selection in used servers. I was looking for any alternative in the past few months, but the xeon servers in the same price are very old, and no PC has more than 8 GB ram for this money. I tried to google it, but I'm not entirely sure: will I be able to passthrough a gpu with this mobo and cpus? I was thinking of a sandy/ivy bridge i7 with 16 GB for double price of the above server, any opinions about that? I can get the money for it in a few months, but I'm not sure that I need the extra CPU power, and buying more RAM is very expensive novadays. Thank you!
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