That way I can run my more demanding stuff without also having to power a bunch of spinning rust all the time. Yes the ~70 watts for 24/7 HDD’s nags at me that much; don’t try to tell me how long it will take me to make my $80 back 😂

Aren’t drive hibernating if you don’t use them?

Anyway At worse it’s 20$ per month if you pay .38 kW/h. 😅

Oh boy here we go for me :

• 8x ESP32
• 50 feet of LED
• a crate of electrical hardware to power up everything.
• a mini EliteDesk to replace my RetroPi with something with a bit more power.
• I have to Install that dual 10gb card in my server.
• I still have to finish my Watercooled GPU with an disconnect-able external radiator in his own case (I think I need another D5 pump… Damnit and more piping…)

I won’t talk about everything else I need to do haha.

JNVME 0 and 1

This look like the X12SPM-LN4F, so this FAQ should apply :

https://www.supermicro.org.cn/support/faqs/faq.cfm?faq=34848

JNVME0/1 are PCIe 4.0 x8 Slimline SAS Connectors. These two Slimline SAS connectors located on the motherboard to support two PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe connections. This connector provides high-speed and low-latency connections directly from the CPU to NVMe Solid State (SSD) drives. Cables available from SMCI eStore: https://store.supermicro.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=slimline sas

Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3 GHz 6-Core Processor

Oh boy, this is probably the least efficient cpu I ever seen and it consume almost as much as my Epyc 7551, check the TDP value.

That’s a good list of LGA-2011-3 but crosscheck with CpuBenchmark : https://www.cpu-list.com/lga-2011-3-cpu-list/eng/

Well you can’t put two I7s on one board :)

Technically you can : https://www.newegg.ca/p/pl?d=dual+processor+motherboard

Question is, why would you? 😂 You will get better performance from a Xeon or Epyc cpu for probably less.

The x3650 M4 7915 is a fine server, although outdated to today standards can still pull his weight if hidden and not scared of power cost (like OP mentioned, he’s not haha.

if only my teenage self understood the treasure that setup would become.

Oh yeah that’s sad, I remember moving out of my parents house 15 years ago only to come back for Christmas and asking where the old Tandy computer was… My mother threw it out, that thing had a bunch of great classic games running on DOS like Rampage, Pitfall, Star Trek, galaga, centipede, etc… I’m still mad.

Downside? It’s noisy and power hungry

Pretty big downside tbh and pretty meh Xeon CPU at this point (equal to a 7th gen i7).

But plus side is the space for HDD, memory is easy to get cheap (DDR3) and a solid case to build in a new build at worse.