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.
Isn’t that processor almost 15 years old? Nor sure what kind of price is alright for that. 250 seems a bit much but I don’t really know. I mean it’d probably work fine and 24GB is plenty of RAM for a few selfhosted services. I don’t think you need a graphics card for most services. Though Jellyfin can make use of the video encoder in it. Or use the encoder that comes with the iGPU in the processor. (Edit: Not sure in this case as it’s a very old generation.) And maybe the machine learning features in Immich can make use of the graphics card. Otherwise a GPU just wastes power in a server.
No idea about power consumption. I don’t know where you live, some countries have really cheap electricity. Some don’t and you maybe don’t want to run a random (old) gaming pc, because some waste a lot of power and some don’t and there is no good way to tell except measure it.