I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I’ve been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I’ve got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I’d love some project ideas!

  • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Jellyfin server!!

    You’ll eventually want more storage so LVM is the way to go for making your “drive” easily extendable.

    I use my (very similar, just AMD and with a dGPU) for my Jellyfin server and to selfhost some AI models for experimentation, and I’m working on rolling out matrix synapse because selfhosting

  • buwho@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    “same thing we do everyday, pinky. try and take over the world!”

  • Veraxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    1 day ago

    That is a lot of RAM. Only a quad-core processor, but I imagine should still be fine for general-purpose desktop use.

    What would you want it to do? Honestly I would call that over-specced for something like a file server and would probably consume a lot of power if left on all the time. Maybe a media server which can use the discrete GPU for video encoding?

    • bpt11@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      16·
      1 day ago

      I really don’t have anything specific in mind, but a media server is definitely something that’s been on my list of things I’d like.

      As for the ram, it kind of is an absurd amount. I think it only started with 8 gigs (maybe 16), but since it was just my family computer growing up it would get continually more and more bloated and slow, upgrading the ram was the only way my dad knew how to upgrade it so he’d do it every now and then to try and speed it up lol.

      • Danitos@reddthat.com
        1·
        21 hours ago

        For the media server, I recommend taking a look at Jellifyn. If you want some fancy statistics use, also give it a look at a Prometheus+Graphana config.

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
        12·
        2 hours ago

        definetly bazzite gaming htpc if you get a sufficient gpu in it. stream games from it ota.

        if you take advantage of this amount of ram to virtualize, you could do both that and a server simultaneously, maybe more, you have 2 gpus and network that can be assigned independently.

        the only downside would be power consumption if kept on, but that cpu can definetly handle more server stuff than you would expect.

        i think you can also get one of those chinese xeons for dirt cheap on aliexpress and it might work as a hefty upgrade if you really need more cores for a few coins.

  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
    71·
    1 day ago

    Home server! Not sure how CUDA support is, but exo/petals node for AI and stuff? Immich for photos, Nextcloud for files, homeassistant!

    • notthebees@reddthat.com
      2·
      23 hours ago

      GTX 745 is weird. It’s early Maxwell, not Kepler. It’s not particularly fast and as it is Maxwell, only supports fp32.

  • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
    112·
    22 hours ago

    Project 1: Install Gentoo on it. 🙂 Project 2: Keep Gentoo installed on it.

  • philluminati@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I had a 6700k until December just gone. For Linux it can do everything and anything. It’s totally usable! I only gave mine up because of CS2.

      • notthebees@reddthat.com
        3·
        12 hours ago

        My friend has a 2080 in his and he’s been able to play monster hunter wilds without much issue. It does support nvme.

        (He’s on pop os)

        Edit: that 6700 is a limiting factor in some titles. BeamMP really likes high core count CPUs.

  • fachpersonal@lemmy.ml
    10·
    1 day ago

    With that amount of ram you could make it a hypervisor and host a lot of containers and vms. Maybe proxmox would be a good fit?

  • Akito@lemmy.zipEnglish
    35·
    12 hours ago

    Can’t do much with these specs. You could make it headless and lose the desktop environment to make it much more useful.

      • Akito@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        XD I mean, there are also discreet GPUs from the 90’s, yet pretty much all integrated GPUs are far more performant than that.

        Your discreet GPU is over 12 years old and even back then it was an entry level card. So, actually, it is very weak and, for many use cases, weaker than many current integrated ones. Not to mention possible lack of current driver support, etc…

        You could also look up the other parts, I won’t do that for you. But the same counts for the “i7”. If the i7 is nearly as old, it’s weaker than some i3s from today and definitely weaker than lots of i5s, nowadays.

        Again… Same goes for the RAM, etc… If your RAM is really slow, then the size of the RAM will only be useful for certain use cases.

        Again and again… You have to research for every part, to really know, what they are capable of. Just saying “i7” and “discreet” does not make the PC any better, whatsoever.

        In short: you can use the computer for a lot of stuff, but only very limited. If you want to do something very specific, really well, then you need to find the right niché, where it might work well. Otherwise, as I initially foreshadowed, there is actually not much you can do with those specifications. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  • PushButton@lemmy.world
    1·
    21 hours ago

    I have something similar, but with an old nvidia 1070.

    I run a file server, nginx for my web dev, git server, postgres and, surprisingly, ollama.

    The old nv 1070 is CUDA capable and it’s doing an OK job for my usage.

    Check if you can put your hand on an old NV card for an AI agent.

    Cheers!