Question Reusing an Old Platform

[ScottAD]

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.

 

[Shmee]

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.

 

[ScottAD]

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.

That was my main concern I guess. Generally not considered a low power component 😅

 

[In2Photos]

That was my main concern I guess. Generally not considered a low power component 😅

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.