Hello folks,
I'm planning on building an ultra low-end home server for a weekend project. I have a cheap PSU, some DDR3 RAM, and SSDs/hard drives lying around on my shelf already. I found a pretty good deal on Amazon in my country for a H61 motherboard + i3 3240 CPU. It'll be a headless system mostly used it as a media server, maybe run PiHole and some cronjobs to archive content on reddit and YouTube. The built in NIC maxes out at 10/100 Mbps. The Mobo has no USB 3.0 support whatsoever but oddly enough has an NVMe M.2 slot. I want to add a Tp-Link Gigabit PCIe card to it, does it have the bandwitch to utilize it properly or will it be bottlenecked down to a lower speed? (Amazon link)
Here's the motherboard in particular.
I'm planning on building an ultra low-end home server for a weekend project. I have a cheap PSU, some DDR3 RAM, and SSDs/hard drives lying around on my shelf already. I found a pretty good deal on Amazon in my country for a H61 motherboard + i3 3240 CPU. It'll be a headless system mostly used it as a media server, maybe run PiHole and some cronjobs to archive content on reddit and YouTube. The built in NIC maxes out at 10/100 Mbps. The Mobo has no USB 3.0 support whatsoever but oddly enough has an NVMe M.2 slot. I want to add a Tp-Link Gigabit PCIe card to it, does it have the bandwitch to utilize it properly or will it be bottlenecked down to a lower speed? (Amazon link)
Here's the motherboard in particular.
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