NAS / Game Server

[Arki]

Hello everyone! 

 

Im planning on building a Server for running game server of diffrent games, such as Ark Survival, Minecraft, Valheim, Enshrudded, and future games to come.

im looking in to building something myself out of used hardware ill buy as i find what might fall inside the right proformance range but im a little unsure to as where that is currently,

im thinking buying some older Ryzen processore like a 5900X and working on he stuff around it from there should be plenty fast enoghe and high core count.

 

But i am looking to put all this into sleak nice "box" hidden away and silent, tunning down the power limit on the cpu, getting a platinum or titianium 80+ PSU for better effiancy in power draw, maybe a tiny UPS aswell so it shuts down properly if power should cut out, currently i havent found a case that fits all of this yet. i have a resenable budget for it all but im going for a cheaper build rather then great, i know 5900x is not cheap but i think i will do alright in cheap b450 or so motherboard, some ddr 4 ram 32gb or so im thinking.

 

i look around for some older prebuilds from the likes of DELL, HP, Lenovo.  i found this HP Prodesk 600 G5 SFF, attached a photo with more details, but i think it might be good choice for it aswell but i am uncertian.

 

i kind like the idea LLT had for having there steam games on a server downloading it from there insted of online when needed im thinking about doing the same in this case aswell, making the entire server a multi purpose making it far more used the once and a while when i need a game server or a file, also plan on running it as a window machine or windows server ? as i have never run a server ever going to be a learning experiance, i looked up some remote software control for it so i can run it from my normal desktop and for the game servers i plan on running AMP.

 

what Experiance do you guys have with a project like this ? what would you recommend in parts and compostion of the parts, love to hear from you all !

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 hours ago, Arki said:

 

i look around for some older prebuilds from the likes of DELL, HP, Lenovo.  i found this HP Prodesk 600 G5 SFF, attached a photo with more details, but i think it might be good choice for it aswell but i am uncertian.

Should work fine, its a bit older, and I'd probably get more ram, but nothing really wrong with it.

 

2 hours ago, Arki said:

i kind like the idea LLT had for having there steam games on a server downloading it from there insted of online when needed im thinking about doing the same in this case aswell, making the entire server a multi purpose making it far more used the once and a while when i need a game server or a file, also plan on running it as a window machine or windows server ? as i have never run a server ever going to be a learning experiance, i looked up some remote software control for it so i can run it from my normal desktop and for the game servers i plan on running AMP.

 

Normally its pretty easy to put a big HDD in a system like that for caching.

 

I'd probalby run a hypervisor on the host like Proxmox. Makes it a lot easier to backup all the VMs, make and restore snapshots and more.

[Arki]

18 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Should work fine, its a bit older, and I'd probably get more ram, but nothing really wrong with it.

think there would be any value to going and getting something i build myself more high end or would i simply use money on getting proformance i dont need ?

 

 

[GooseofGeese]

10 hours ago, Arki said:

think there would be any value to going and getting something i build myself more high end or would i simply use money on getting proformance i dont need ?

 

 

Personally, I think you'll end up spending a lot more for a computer with much fewer limits. While something like an optiplex will probably be significantly cheaper, I found that they made upgrading to fit future needs a lot more inconvenient. I started on an old optiplex, then moved onto an HP machine like you've linked, and finally just used an old AM4 build because I found an enthusiast case to be more convenient for upgrading storage needs or adding things like a GPU for jellyfin/hardware transcoding.

They work as beginner solutions and easy ins to the hobby, but if you want the machine to be multipurpose or use more than what it gets specced with from the manufacturer (outside of swapping to an ssd or upgrading RAM to a point). My prodesk was annoying to get more than a single big hdd in without using external adapters or hubs, so inconvenient as a storage solution past 1 or 2 big drives mirrored together.

The bigger machine will obviously cost more though, especially if you don't have old hardware laying around, and it's not like you really need a 16 core gaming cpu or a 3090 in a server. They're obviously good if you have one lying around, but you don't need that level of hardware to dive in