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I currently have a Synology 220+ and a couple of VPS's, and I'm looking to consolidate, while getting out of Synology's walled garden. I've already got a couple of 3.5's in the Synology, and 4 2.5's lying around and I'm planning on running a number of docker containers and a couple of vms.

That said, I've never built anything before, and basically just went to PCPartPicker, started with the case, and checked 5-stars on each component and went from there. So... how absurd is my build?

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor $135.00 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler Cooler Master MasterLiquid 360L Core ARGB Liquid CPU Cooler $90.71 @ Amazon
Motherboard MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard $165.99 @ B&H
Memory TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory $26.99 @ Amazon
Storage Seagate IronWolf NAS 8 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive Purchased For $179.00
Storage Seagate IronWolf NAS 8 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive Purchased For $179.00
Storage Seagate IronWolf NAS 8 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive $159.99 @ Adorama
Case Fractal Design Meshify 2 ATX Mid Tower Case $173.89 @ Newegg
Power Supply Corsair RM650 (2023) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $89.99 @ Corsair
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $1200.56
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-05-23 19:32 EDT-0400
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[–] yaroto98@lemmy.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My amd igpu works just fine for jellyfin. LLMs are a little slow, but that's to be expected.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm not sure if I really want to deal with an llm. It would mostly be for home assistant, so nothing too crazy.

[–] yaroto98@lemmy.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a very similar NAS I built. The Home Assistant usage doesn't really even move the needle. I'm running around 50 docker containers and chilling at about 10% cpu.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The LLM for home assistant, or just HA in general doesn't move the needle? My HA is also pretty low key, but I was considering the idea of running my own small llm to use with HA to get off of OpenAI. My current AI usage is very small, so I wouldn't need too much on the GPU side I'd imagine, but I don't know what's sufficient.

[–] yaroto98@lemmy.org 2 points 1 year ago

Just home assistant doesn't move the needle. The llms hit the igpu hard and my cpu usage spikes to 70-80% when one is thinking.

But my llms i'm running are ollama and invokeai each with several different models just for fun.