This $250 Ryzen Pre-Built is a BEAST Home Server!

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Timestamps:
00:00 The intro
01:45 The CPU
04:19 What's the catch?
05:12 The pre-built
07:00 Power consumption
09:59 Replacing the PSU
12:38 Replacing the motherboard
13:29 Performance
15:22 Final words

[WolfgangsChannel]

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Correction: The Ryzen 3600 die shot at 3:30 has the "IO" and "CCX" labels swapped (thanks @Weyzar !)

Needs to be changed according to your PCIe devices before running!
Use this command to see what devices support ASPM: sudo lspci -vv | awk '/ASPM/{print $0}' RS= | grep --color -P '(^[a-z0-9:.]+|ASPM )'

[_vr]

Awesome, I love the fact that you can focus on getting the most out of your money, and not blasting a hole in the wallet.

[wherath]

Benchmarks I'd like to see for this system, and the others as well are;
1. ZFS resilvering. (use some standardized drive size and layout like 3-wide z1 of some cheap 4tb drives or whatever you can get your hand on.)
2. Your typical DB & FS benchmarks, Seq. I/O, Rand. I/O and such.
3. In general also displaying the benchmarks of all previous builds alongside the current results with perf/W and perf/$

[uploadfreak]

I love your channel. It got me hyped enough to fix my data chaos and now I'm almost done with my take on a NAS build based on the N5105 motherboard.
I'll definitely stay tuned for that N100 video as this could be the perfect board for my off-site backup in a different city.
Keep it up!

[Fictiion]

I just love your budget friendly videos and the amount of effort you put in those, that's really inspiring me to try to this as well at home.

[marcschneider]

I like your low power builds. It insipred me to build a homserver out of a Asrock Desk Mini x300. I did 3D print a modified housing (printables x300 case) in order to add the thick 5TB 2.5" HDD. I do not need more disk space. I picked a Ryzen 5600G and switched the power supply to a GaN 65W usb c one. So the board gets 20V (instead of 19) through usb c power delivery. Pretty cool!
I actually did not measure the power consumtion yet. But I will do a research about your mentioned power top tricks. I remember the power draw to fairly under 15W but don't remember if the drives were connected. Once I found time to measure the power consumtion, I can let you know.
The N100 build will be alse pretty decent and might be way under 10W with 2 HDD drives.

[StormGod]

I really enjoy videos like this, thanks! I recently found your channel and used what I learned to retool my Minecraft server and brought it from 20 watts down to 10 watts while players are logged in and playing! That might be a cool video for you to tackle since it is a light duty 24/7 use case and oddly just wants tons of RAM and a *fast* single core to keep the game loop running at 20 ticks per second. I picked Intel G3258 since they are so cheap and can easily overclock to 4.0GHz. I just bought two off eBay for $9 each and got it up to 4.0GHz stable and it barely touched my idle power draw!!!

[KopfKino]

Thanks Wolfgang, I rarely miss your videos, always super interesting. Especially like the homeserver stuff.
This rig looks like a great deal, however involves a lot of tinkering. What do you make of the recent-ish (or older even) mini-pcs like Optiplex and the like ?

[marksulloway]

I discovered exactly the same low idle wattage with both of the 8 core Ryzen APU's - 4750G Pro and 5700G - both draw 7-8 watts at idle on an Aorus B550 ITX motherboard. The 5700X idles at 30 watts, the 5950X at 40 watts - all on same B550 motherboard. As you pointed out only the Pro models alllow allow ECC memory. Gruess aus Florida!

[alexanderos]

Fantastic Video as always.
For your Question. A geat benchmark for a home server is fileflows.
It transcodes videos in the "Archive" using so called flows. The best part is that it is super easy to switch between software and hardware transcode. and in contrast to tdarr and similar projects priorizes quality over speed.
In My experience a transcode to HEVC on GPU is a great test of the overall CPU power.

[roccociccone]

I converted my previous desktop sporting a 5900x to my new virtualisation host. I run it at the 65w eco mode. It's pretty awesome considering my previous virtualisation host was running on an intel Nuc.

[garrywashere]

Hi Wolfgang, love your channel man. Keep the good shit coming!

[SilvioDidonna]

Didn't expect less than 20W for that build, great! Waiting for the new video about the n100

[Sunlight]

My website hosting server uses just 6.5W in idle. It's a used HP office PC with an i5 9500 and 8GB RAM (original PSU has platinum efficiency). Got it around 2 years ago for £150.

[Ak]

I cannot like this video enough, I feel like I learned so much!
The laptop charger as PSU is nuts!!

[rdsii]

This may work for me. I'm looking for a power efficient cpu build a 2U server with. All this server will run is windows server 2022, NordVpn, Qbittorent, Sonarr, Radarr, and Jacket.
The collected "linux ISO's" will be moved over to my media server so nothing will be stored on it long term. One M.2 boot volume and a second drive for temp storage (read a place to store the downloads until they complete)is all I need.

[marcijel]

Thank you for your videos. Recently I bought an HP Prodesk 600 G4 with i3 8100 CPU. With powertop --autotune and other steps (~HDD spin down), the idle consumption is 8-9W !! This computer has a 180W platinum power supply. And it costs about 120-140 EUR on the used market (8-16GB RAM, 250GB SSD). Also it has a huge disadvantage: only one 3.5" drive bay. But it's enough for me.

[GstarCurtis]

If you had to pick something brand new, that is actually available what would you choose, for low consumption, without being poor?

Plex 4k playback, NAS, and other various stuff.

Currently rocking a 5820k with a Quadro P2000, MSI X99-A SLI PLUS, 16gb ram and it consumes around 60-65w.

For a budget around 500 euro.

[_FaUlti_]

Something to note about those FSP (Fortron) blocks.
They can do a lot.
If such a unit as your is still in good condition, it operates well when loaded at 80% or more. How long will it keep working under heavy load is questionable, since these are old blocks, but from what I have seen, these are very stable, relatively realiable units, with protections and stuff.
Anyone interested, look at how many stickers they have next to the main one. The more the better. I have yet to see one with an 80+ rating.

[Keshmi]

Отличное видео! Отдельное спасибо за субтитры)
Тоже присматриваюсь к amd из за поддержки ecc памяти и его работы на большинстве десктопных плат. Думал вам про них написать, а тут ваше видео вышло)
Вообще еще интересны процессоры PRO 5650G (в два раза больше кэш, архитектура cezanne) или варианты 4c\8t, некоторые из них реально купить oem (80-100$)