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Question Reusing an Old Platform

ScottAD

ScottAD

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My son is going to the dark side. So I have a Ryzen 3600x and a 3060TI platform that I want to make use of. Right now I've been running Plex from my 7600x/9070 but should I
  • Sell the platform as parts and use the money to buy newer items for an HTPC/Home Server
  • Just repurpose it
  • Repurpose it, sell the mobo and move the chip to an ITX platform
Can get hard drives but my Plex is less than 4 TB atm.
 
Sounds like a perfectly reasonable setup still, especially if just used for home server/HTPC stuff. Only issue with AM4 and the 3600X is there is no integrated graphics, so you would have to use a video card like the 3060Ti you have, which is generally unneeded GPU power for this kind of setup.
 
Shmee said:
Sounds like a perfectly reasonable setup still, especially if just used for home server/HTPC stuff. Only issue with AM4 and the 3600X is there is no integrated graphics, so you would have to use a video card like the 3060Ti you have, which is generally unneeded GPU power for this kind of setup.
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That was my main concern I guess. Generally not considered a low power component 😅
 
ScottAD said:
That was my main concern I guess. Generally not considered a low power component 😅
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No, but since it won't really be used for anything you will just consume the idle power of the card. You could always replace the 3600X with something like a 5600G with integrated graphics and then remove the 3060Ti for use elsewhere.

My son recently got a new PC from a giveaway. He had a 5600X with 32GB of RAM and a GTX 1660 Super. We put his "old" computer in the living room and use it for more casual gaming now. I put a retro gaming platform on it (for old Nintendo/SEGA games) and we can still play some of our newer games with it. It actually did fine playing Hogwarts as long as you're ok with turning the settings down.
 
I always face similar issues. The technology changes now faster than I can keep up. I need to do more Tom's Hardware reading. The NEWS part of Anandtech has gone silent.

But I cannot readily see to compare my old Skylake "Media PC and Server" to the OP's hardware. I need to do some lookups to get a handle on how slow my rig is.

I don't THINK it's slow, but it only serves my needs for it -- a perfect entertainment jukebox and backup server for my other two desktops and a laptop. Every year I try and update hardware if it's needed, but I've got Win 11 Pro installed on all the Skylake/KabyLake systems (3), and the system in question has a 12TB 4-HDD drive pool under Stablebit DP and Scanner. I use a single 8TB 3.5 HDD "hot-swap" to synch with the pool. The PCs synch their folders with the server.

Anybody can critique my home network and digital fortress. Since the other two PCs have regular daily backup with licensed Macrium, I don't think I'll ever lose my data, as long as I synch things weekly. The other two systems have a hot-swap 5TB to store Macrium images.

What frightens me is my getting old, but the maintenance helps keep me sharp -- I suppose.
 
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