Home Server + Maybe gaming rig later on

[Toxicable]

Budget (including currency): A$600-800

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Torrenting, Remote programming, Sometimes game servers (Minecraft, Valheim, etc)

Hey team, I'm looking at building a new home server that I'll be using for a variety of server stuff, as mentioned above.

One use case is game servers, so I think a CPU with a bit of single core performance would be ideal, but then also a good amount of cores for the various loads.
Additionally I might partition this into half gaming rig, half server later on for my partner  to be able to use - The idea here would be to just slap in a GPU if that happens.

The main part I'm not 100% on is the CPU, the 5600 dosen't come with onboard graphics so transcoding will be done on the CPU which will be quite the burden, I'm not sure if it's worth the trade off for CPU performance to get maybe the 5600G which has onboard graphics.

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/nF9NMb

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($209.00 @ Amazon Australia) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M K Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($122.82 @ Amazon Australia) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($122.54 @ Amazon Australia) 
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($74.00 @ Austin Computers) 
Case: Antec VSK10 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($59.00 @ MSY Technology) 
Power Supply: Silverstone Essential 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($99.00 @ PLE Computers) 
Total: $686.36

[AbydosOne]

1 minute ago, Toxicable said:

The main part I'm not 100% on is the CPU, the 5600 dosen't come with onboard graphics so transcoding will be done on the CPU which will be quite the burden, I'm not sure if it's worth the trade off for CPU performance to get maybe the 5600G which has onboard graphics.

You sound like you're talking about Plex, which only works with Intel and Nvidia GPUs anyways.

[Toxicable]

29 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

You sound like you're talking about Plex, which only works with Intel and Nvidia GPUs anyways.

Ah, I should have specified, I'm using Jellyfin not Plex, which as I understand can use AMD, Nvida or Intel hardware, although maybe there would be some performance difference, I havn't investigated much past "does it work"

[Needfuldoer]

You might need a video card of some sort in order for the machine to POST without errors (at least until you can go in and set it to ignore VGA errors in the BIOS.) Even a throwaway OEM PCIe display adapter should be enough for that.

 

If you plan on gaming with this machine in the future, I'd recommend oversizing the power supply. Otherwise you might have to upgrade it once you add a real video card.

[PC HEROES]

40 minutes ago, Toxicable said:

Budget (including currency): A$600-800

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Torrenting, Remote programming, Sometimes game servers (Minecraft, Valheim, etc)

Hey team, I'm looking at building a new home server that I'll be using for a variety of server stuff, as mentioned above.

One use case is game servers, so I think a CPU with a bit of single core performance would be ideal, but then also a good amount of cores for the various loads.
Additionally I might partition this into half gaming rig, half server later on for my partner  to be able to use - The idea here would be to just slap in a GPU if that happens.

The main part I'm not 100% on is the CPU, the 5600 dosen't come with onboard graphics so transcoding will be done on the CPU which will be quite the burden, I'm not sure if it's worth the trade off for CPU performance to get maybe the 5600G which has onboard graphics.

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/nF9NMb

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($209.00 @ Amazon Australia) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M K Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($122.82 @ Amazon Australia) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($122.54 @ Amazon Australia) 
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($74.00 @ Austin Computers) 
Case: Antec VSK10 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($59.00 @ MSY Technology) 
Power Supply: Silverstone Essential 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($99.00 @ PLE Computers) 
Total: $686.36

Hello, I was able to come up with this, the CPU has a built in Graphics Card and will get you by until you can afford a dedicated Graphics Card. Power supply I picked can handle most Video Cards.

 

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/y3PVNc

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4600G 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($159.00 @ PLE Computers)
Motherboard: MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($170.26 @ Amazon Australia)
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($117.00 @ I-Tech)
Storage: Western Digital Black SN770 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($99.61 @ Amazon Australia)
Case: Cougar MX330-G Air ATX Mid Tower Case  ($85.00 @ JW Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair RM850e 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($159.00 @ MSY Technology)
Total: $789.87
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