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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

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[–] KaninchenSpeed@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

From my experiance with minecraft servers ryzen is the way to go.

I would recommend getting a used ryzen 5 5600g or ryzen 7 5700g i found some for less than 80€ on ebay. For the mainboard i would either get a cpu + mainboard combo or get it new as i haven't found any non broken used boards. Pretty much anything is fine, just look out for the number of pcie slots and the lane distribution between them and if it supports lane bifurcation (you need this if you want to add m.2 expantion boards) if you want to add a hba or network card later on and that the board has 4 ram slots. Get at least 32gb of ram, 64gb is better and get them as 2 sticks, so you can upgrade later, ddr4 is cheap now. Storage wise I would reccommend 2 sata ssds as boot drives and 2 nvmes (if the mainboard supports it) for data.

So as an example (only 1 boot drive) with the prices ive found:

U: used (ebay); N: new

CPU U Ryzen 7 5700g w. heat sink 75€
RAM U 2x32gb corsair vengeance lpx 80€
MB U msi b550-a pro 82€
PSU N bequiet system power 550w 52€
SSD1 N crucial bx 500 250gb 16.5€
SSD2 N crucial p3 plus 2tb (2x) 198€
Result 503.5€

This mainboard isn't itx, but you should find one that is for a similar price!

Software wise you can try out debian, truenas or something else, but try to use zfs. Im personally using debian on zfs root running minecraft servers in docker containers with docker-compose but running lodestone (a web ui for mc servers) would also be an option. Running nextcloud in a container is also pretty eanew

[–] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

This is a great specific response based on the principle in my comment. Thank you for taking the time for OP and others. I feel like the Vega iGPU on the ryzen 5xxx is meant to be pretty good too right?