Cheap game and plex server

[Smackaroy]

Budget (including currency): £500

Country: uk

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: light plex server and heavily modded game servers

Other details already have a 256gb boot ssd. Also has to be small so no atx motherboards also has to be near silent 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Do you care bout power usage?

 

Either id get a used server(loud, power hungry, fast, lots of ram support, good impi), or a basic desktop with something like a 1600, gt 710, 32/16gb of ram, and some hdds.

 

How much storage do you need?

[Smackaroy]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Do you care bout power usage?

 

Either id get a used server(loud, power hungry, fast, lots of ram support, good impi), or a basic desktop with something like a 1600, gt 710, 32/16gb of ram, and some hdds.

 

How much storage do you need?

Not much 2tb, loud no it has to be quiet and small 

[Smackaroy]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Do you care bout power usage?

 

Either id get a used server(loud, power hungry, fast, lots of ram support, good impi), or a basic desktop with something like a 1600, gt 710, 32/16gb of ram, and some hdds.

 

How much storage do you need?

loud no it has to be quiet and small. About 2tb oops

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, Smackaroy said:

Not much 2tb, loud no it has to be quiet and small 

How bout this 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/8CfYMc

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£134.97 @ Laptops Direct) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£62.93 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£104.29 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£51.02 @ CCL Computers) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GT 710 1 GB Video Card  (£34.16 @ Box Limited) 
Case: Deepcool MATREXX 30 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£24.98 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12III 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£54.41 @ CCL Computers) 
Total: £466.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-24 03:54 BST+0100

 

Cheap case, idk what you want, but should work here.

 

Yea its a smr drive, but should work fine for this use, Id probalby get a 4tb if it was me. Not nas rated, but won't really matter here. Makre sure you have backups.

 

gt710 is for basic video. Can do transcoding but not really needed.

 

Probably get faster ram, that was just cheap.

 

 

[DefineOG]

55 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

How bout this 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/8CfYMc

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£134.97 @ Laptops Direct) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£62.93 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£104.29 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£51.02 @ CCL Computers) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GT 710 1 GB Video Card  (£34.16 @ Box Limited) 
Case: Deepcool MATREXX 30 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£24.98 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12III 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£54.41 @ CCL Computers) 
Total: £466.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-24 03:54 BST+0100

 

Cheap case, idk what you want, but should work here.

 

Yea its a smr drive, but should work fine for this use, Id probalby get a 4tb if it was me. Not nas rated, but won't really matter here. Makre sure you have backups.

 

gt710 is for basic video. Can do transcoding but not really needed.

 

Probably get faster ram, that was just cheap.

 

 

Getting a 710 probably isn’t the best idea, there is another 34$ in the budget so maybe this person should look to see if they can find a used rx 550, 560 or 4 series equivalent. They will have a much better experience with that.

[Electronics Wizardy]

11 hours ago, DefineOG said:

Getting a 710 probably isn’t the best idea, there is another 34$ in the budget so maybe this person should look to see if they can find a used rx 550, 560 or 4 series equivalent. They will have a much better experience with that.

The 70 isn't there for the compute power, its just there for a low power display output. Those cards would probably be worse i this case as they use power power, cost more normally.

[Smackaroy]

6 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

The 70 isn't there for the compute power, its just there for a low power display output. Those cards would probably be worse i this case as they use power power, cost more normally.

I whould probably drop the gpu and replace it with a faster single core cpu.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, Smackaroy said:

I whould probably drop the gpu and replace it with a faster single core cpu.

you can get something like a i3 10100 or 10400 here for betting single thread.

 

You cn't just tke the gpu out, you need to hvae. gpu for rzyen as it doesn't have a igpu

[Smackaroy]

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you can get something like a i3 10100 or 10400 here for betting single thread.

 

You cn't just tke the gpu out, you need to hvae. gpu for rzyen as it doesn't have a igpu

Intel has tho. Or I'll wait for the apps to come