Looking for some additional advice about setting up my own homelab for game server hosting etc.

Enavin · June 19

So recently I had bought a workstation off a coworker with no cpu - specs:

X99 Asus Deluxe

32gb DDR4 3200

1TB SSD

Nvidia P4000

I picked up an Intel Xeon E5-2667V4 from ebay to toss in it and seemed like this would be great for what I want to use it for. Essentially to host a modded minecraft server, PalWorld, and perhaps one or two others. Never at the same time and just when my kids are wanting to play games. I just don't want to pay for server hosting unless its absolutely necessary. I'd like to eventually use it for some personal storage for pictures etc that my wife and I can drop our photos and such to instead of keeping everything on the cloud. ( I'll pick up some extra storage drives as time goes )

The curve ball is he wanted it back for whatever reason so he swapped me for another system he had ( another x99 system )

Gigabyte GA-X99-UD5

32gb DDR 2400 ECC ram ( 4 x 8gb )

1TB SSD

Nvidia P4000 ( the card is meaningless, I have a 1060 I intend to toss in it for less power as the board doesn't have onboard video )

The kicker -- He gave me a Xeon E5-1650 V4 for the hastle.

Which chip should I actually use with it? I already received the E5-2667 v4. It only set me back 20$ so it isn't a huge ordeal if one is better than the other, I'd just prefer to utilize the better of the two.

One other question, would it be worth picking up more DDR 2400 ECC to put in? Another 32gb is only about 40$ give or take, and I know I should match the type if so.

I've begun tinkering with linux and getting things setup as it already has the E5-1650 v4 installed but swapping it out if the E5-2667 v4 would be a better choice isn't an issue.

Anyways, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

manikyath · June 19

the 1650 is probably the better choice if it's always gonna be a single game server. it should be a bit faster single core.

Enavin · June 19

17 hours ago, manikyath said:

the 1650 is probably the better choice if it's always gonna be a single game server. it should be a bit faster single core.

Thank you kindly!