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So I have a Home Server PC I built a little while back with a ryzen 2200g, when i built the pc the main goal was just to run plex for a few of my housemates and myself mostly locally.  It has sense grown to about 10 of my friends as well as me hosting Ark Servers , wow Servers and really any private server for a game we feel like playing. Im starting to run into bottlenecks with the lil cpu in that computer. Basically im trying to decide weather i should upgrade it to a gen 3 ryzen 5 chip or if i should upgrade my main pc to a 3rd gen ryzen 7 chip and move my 2700x into the server.  I could also buy another 2700x for one of my roommates computers and move the 2600x into the server.  Obviously any of them would give me a bit more power but my main goal is to keep my price to performance in a good place and not buy a chip im going to replace again in a few months as well as keeping my system running cool since its an always on, currently sits around 28c idle 38 90% load. What are your opinions ? (I have an unused rx 580 gpu id slot in if i replace the CPU)

 

current Server ryzen 3 2200g 32g corsair Vengeance 3200Mhz Samsung  970 evo 250 nvme 4x4tb Western Digital red 1x2tb Western Digital Black

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upgrading your pc seems like a decent idea... sure it's not the cheapest way but zen 2 is a decent upgrade from zen+

Main PC [The Rig of Theseus]:

CPU: i5-8600K @ 5.0 GHz | GPU: GTX 1660 | RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3000 MHz | Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic | PSU: Corsair RM 650i | SSD: Corsair MP510 480 GB |  HDD: 2x 6 TB WD Red| Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro | OS: Windows 11 Pro for Workstations

 

Secondary PC [Why did I bother]:

CPU: AMD Athlon 3000G | GPU: Vega 3 iGPU | RAM: 8 GB DDR4 3000 MHz | Case: Corsair 88R | PSU: Corsair VS 650 | SSD: WD Green M.2 SATA 120 GB | Motherboard: MSI A320M-A PRO MAX | OS: Windows 11 Pro for Workstations

 

Server [Solution in search of a problem]:

Model: HP DL360e Gen8 | CPU: 1x Xeon E5-2430L v1 | RAM: 12 GB DDR3 1066 MHz | SSD: Kingston A400 120 GB | OS: VMware ESXi 7

 

Server 2 electric boogaloo [A waste of electricity]:

Model: intel NUC NUC5CPYH | CPU: Celeron N3050 | RAM: 2GB DDR3L 1600 MHz | SSD: Kingston UV400 120 GB | OS: Debian Bullseye

 

Laptop:

Model: ThinkBook 14 Gen 2 AMD | CPU: Ryzen 7 4700U | RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz | OS: Windows 11 Pro

 

Photography:

 

Cameras:

Full Frame digital: Sony α7

APS-C digital: Sony α100

Medium Format Film: Kodak Junior SIX-20

35mm Film:

 

Lenses:

Sony SAL-1870 18-70mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 

Sony SAL-75300 75-300mm ƒ/4.5-5.6

Meike MK-50mm ƒ/1.7

 

PSA: No, I didn't waste all that money on computers, (except the main one) my server cost $40, the intel NUC was my old PC (although then it had 8GB of ram, I gave the bigger stick of ram to a person who really needed it), my laptop is used and the second PC is really cheap.

I like tinkering with computers and have a personal hatred towards phones and everything they represent (I daily drive an iPhone 7, or a 6, depends on which one works that day)

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