My budget is ~500 Euro.

I haven’t built a PC in 10 years, I gave no idea where to start.

It will mostly be used to run Nextcloud, Minecraft Server and some future homelab projects.

I’m thinking of using this for the case https://www.the-diy-life.com/introducing-lab-rax-a-3d-printable-modular-10-rack-system

Where do I start? What CPU or motherboard would you recommend? I want it to be somewhat future proof and also act as a NAS

  • nagaram@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    My “production” home lab is 3 Optiplex 3050 with i7-7700. They work great and are pretty low power.

    • freebee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Fujitsu Esprimo here… 50 €, before the extra RAM, SSDs, … Relatively low power usage, lots of SATA, PCI slots, lots of USB ports… Works very well for all except transcoding. Could put a GPU but it would really make power consumption go up