Im interested in starting to self host and ive seen that people use old computers, but Im wondering if these specs are overkill:

Intel Core i7 2600K Processor 24GB RAM 800GB SSD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Graphics Card

Its a used computer, and I was going to offer 150-170? They are asking 250. Things I want to try are:

-cloud storage -immich for photo backup -jellyfin -game servers like enshrouded, vrising, palworld, etc

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Update: Thanks everyone. I will search for something more power/cost efficient. I thought that a graphics cards was more necessary for jellyfin and game servers, but clearly not at the cost of cpu power/efficiency.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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    2 days ago

    The Intel Core i7 2600K will be fast enough for most regular things, but it is quite power hungry, so not so great on your power bill. Also the Intel Quicksync in it is old and thus not very helpful for hardware transcoding videos in Jellyfin, meaning you would need to do most of that on the CPU, which is much slower.

    24GB RAM is definitely sufficient for most things and the SSD storage as well, although you might want to add some redundancy to that at some point.

    The Geforce is pretty useless for server tasks and the NVenc chip in it is also pretty old, so I would just remove it, or maybe ask the seller to remove it and sell separately.

    As a start it is probably over-powered, but the price seems reasonable.