I have had a Phanteks Enthoo case for some yrs now with an old AMD 1600 CPU, and have always wanted to turn it into a Gaming Server. I also have a Gigabyte B450M DS3H MoBo , and very little $ at this point. I would like to know if the Gigabyte B450 will do for a bit till $ better. I have put a couple of possibilities on PCPart Picker, but not sure if I was correct in my choices. https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Yeti8it/saved/#view=B4MCFT
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Do you have need for BMC? Will your server be far enough from you that the BMC would be of use to you?
What exactly are you going to run on this gaming server?
I personally would not run any server without ECC ram because i am too lazy to deal with bad RAM sticks at this point.
If you dont want to spend any money and BMC is not requirement just stuff your former gaming PC innards into Phanteks and call it a server. Have spare 19 monitor plugged in and turn it off to save energy.
Do you have need for BMC? Will your server be far enough from you that the BMC would be of use to you?
What exactly are you going to run on this gaming server?
I personally would not run any server without ECC ram because i am too lazy to deal with bad RAM sticks at this point.
If you dont want to spend any money and BMC is not requirement just stuff your former gaming PC innards into Phanteks and call it a server. Have spare 19 monitor plugged in and turn it off to save energy.
Thank for replying.
No BCC as of now., and the Games will be like Conan, Ark, and similar type games. If it works out well I may ad more to it later as $ gets better. I just turned 65 and am Partly disabled, and unable to work. I figure it could help occupy my time. There is also a possibility of enlisting someone who knows more than I do, and let them play for free on the server.
I currently have a Gaming rig I build a few yrs ago with a AMD 2700X, and a EVGA RTX 2070, and a different PC with a 1060 6gig. I figure one of the two GFX cards could work for the server if I'm correct. then upgrade the GFX card that's matched with the 2700X.
For sure constructive input is welcome.
ECC ram is surly best for my liking of not wishing a lot of headache for the server.
No BCC as of now., and the Games will be like Conan, Ark, and similar type games. If it works out well I may ad more to it later as $ gets better. I just turned 65 and am Partly disabled, and unable to work. I figure it could help occupy my time. There is also a possibility of enlisting someone who knows more than I do, and let them play for free on the server.
I currently have a Gaming rig I build a few yrs ago with a AMD 2700X, and a EVGA RTX 2070, and a different PC with a 1060 6gig. I figure one of the two GFX cards could work for the server if I'm correct. then upgrade the GFX card that's matched with the 2700X.
For sure constructive input is welcome.
ECC ram is surly best for my liking of not wishing a lot of headache for the server.
Unless you plan to also host games you do not need any GPU on gaming server it can be headless you can add low power GPU for diagnostic purposes or if your motherboard does not support booting headless.
Install your game server sw at home and try connect it with your own game pc then you will have to figure out the harder software part about letting your friends to connect to your server.
Install your game server sw at home and try connect it with your own game pc then you will have to figure out the harder software part about letting your friends to connect to your server.
That board AND that CPU will be fine. Its not going to be the fastest server in the world, but I think you will be very impressed with it. That board doesn't support ECC RAM, but don't sweat it. We are just about the same age. Go an enjoy it. It will be a nice set up for Proxmox if you want to play around with virtualization.
Dual CPU mobo for 100USD must be something old slow and power hungry. Stick with your Ryzen unless you actually found a deal which could belong to Great Deals section.
There's plenty of dual CPU motherboards, waaay under $100.
Old - Likely
Slow - Maybe. Quite subjective, depends on the use case.
power hungry - You'll be surprised at the power consumption delta between 10yr old dual CPU systems, and newer ones. Hint: It's not as much as you think it is.
Edit: As an e.g.
These were recently listed (all sold out now).
Dual CPU = yes.
Old = yes.
Slow = hardly.
power hungry = Dual 2600 v2 series idle ~80w with a few sticks of RAM. Newer systems maybe 60-70w. Not that much of a difference.
Bonus - Two 10g ports and SAS2208 controller included.
Downsides - This is a proprietary sized motherboard (and is huge btw), doing a chassis for this will be tricky.
The point I was trying to make was, a dual CPU motherboard with two CPUs (half decent) and two heatsinks for $27 shipped? I mean...
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The man is trying to run a game server and has spare computer already so i do not think he needs to buy old hardware and do i have serious doubts whether his game server could actually benefit from anemic old Xeons. Sure you can nitpick on my power hungry assessment and retrospect i should have written s/power\ hungry/power\ inefficient/g but it does not change anything for the OP. The software part is far more important here.
We still do not know whether he has static IP address or whether his games have old fashioned play on lan capability etc.
We still do not know whether he has static IP address or whether his games have old fashioned play on lan capability etc.
The OP asked for hardware advice and you:
hence my post. I don’t care what software the OP is running or wants to run. Bad advice is bad advice.
A CPU that old is missing out on the next 5 major revisions worth of IPC improvements and a ton of memory speed, on top of having mediocre clock speeds to begin with. Some workloads also don't like having the cores split across two NUMA nodes anyway. A more modern single-socket system will run circles around it.