Home Gaming Server Proyect or Sell

[Rakanyshu]

So i recently upgraded my pc, used for gaming mostly and some motion graphics animation.

The old pc i have in a box right now is:
Mobo: Gigabyte X58 UD3r rev 2.0
CPU: i7 950
RAM: 12 Gb DDR3 1600Mhz (2x6) Kingstone hyperX
Optics drive a DVD RW Lg brand
HDD: Segate barracuda 320 Gb and i have a WD blue 1Tb lying there.
Case: Thermaltake Commander G42 windowed
GPU: GTX 660Ti 2Gb

it lacks a PSU and has the intel stock cooler (never used as it was cooled by an Aio water cooler)

the thing is i play a lot of 7 days to die with my brother, on horde nights it gets laggy for both and as i have this pc doing nothing i figured it could be used as a dedicated game server, now it may be too much for just a game but was wondering if it would be worth the hassle and how would be the best way to aproach using the hardware i already have (expending as little as possible) and to optimize resources for power consumption and such.

Other than that i would try just to sell the whole system but not sure how much i can ask for it or if its even worth it tu buy a PSU to sell it complete.

Any thoughts on the matter would be apreciated i hope its a good discussion.

PD: sorry about my english but its not my native language.

 

[jaslion]

So i recently upgraded my pc, used for gaming mostly and some motion graphics animation.

The old pc i have in a box right now is:
Mobo: Gigabyte X58 UD3r rev 2.0
CPU: i7 950
RAM: 12 Gb DDR3 1600Mhz (2x6) Kingstone hyperX
Optics drive a DVD RW Lg brand
HDD: Segate barracuda 320 Gb and i have a WD blue 1Tb lying there.
Case: Thermaltake Commander G42 windowed
GPU: GTX 660Ti 2Gb

it lacks a PSU and has the intel stock cooler (never used as it was cooled by an Aio water cooler)

the thing is i play a lot of 7 days to die with my brother, on horde nights it gets laggy for both and as i have this pc doing nothing i figured it could be used as a dedicated game server, now it may be too much for just a game but was wondering if it would be worth the hassle and how would be the best way to aproach using the hardware i already have (expending as little as possible) and to optimize resources for power consumption and such.

Other than that i would try just to sell the whole system but not sure how much i can ask for it or if its even worth it tu buy a PSU to sell it complete.

Any thoughts on the matter would be apreciated i hope its a good discussion.

PD: sorry about my english but its not my native language.

Just sell it. making it run a server is a bit of a waste. Also x58 motherboards go for 150$+ easy as they are heavily sought after. I would say gut it and sell it part by part.

 

[Rakanyshu]

So i recently upgraded my pc, used for gaming mostly and some motion graphics animation.

The old pc i have in a box right now is:
Mobo: Gigabyte X58 UD3r rev 2.0
CPU: i7 950
RAM: 12 Gb DDR3 1600Mhz (2x6) Kingstone hyperX
Optics drive a DVD RW Lg brand
HDD: Segate barracuda 320 Gb and i have a WD blue 1Tb lying there.
Case: Thermaltake Commander G42 windowed
GPU: GTX 660Ti 2Gb

it lacks a PSU and has the intel stock cooler (never used as it was cooled by an Aio water cooler)

the thing is i play a lot of 7 days to die with my brother, on horde nights it gets laggy for both and as i have this pc doing nothing i figured it could be used as a dedicated game server, now it may be too much for just a game but was wondering if it would be worth the hassle and how would be the best way to aproach using the hardware i already have (expending as little as possible) and to optimize resources for power consumption and such.

Other than that i would try just to sell the whole system but not sure how much i can ask for it or if its even worth it tu buy a PSU to sell it complete.

Any thoughts on the matter would be apreciated i hope its a good discussion.

PD: sorry about my english but its not my native language.

Just sell it. making it run a server is a bit of a waste. Also x58 motherboards go for 150$+ easy as they are heavily sought after. I would say gut it and sell it part by part.

Thanks for your input, i guess it is indeed the smarter choice, it could be a fun project but maybe i should just sell what i can and build a new machine with a home server in mind probably a small form factor pc really quiet and with low power consumption for that project.

 

[jaslion]

So i recently upgraded my pc, used for gaming mostly and some motion graphics animation.

The old pc i have in a box right now is:
Mobo: Gigabyte X58 UD3r rev 2.0
CPU: i7 950
RAM: 12 Gb DDR3 1600Mhz (2x6) Kingstone hyperX
Optics drive a DVD RW Lg brand
HDD: Segate barracuda 320 Gb and i have a WD blue 1Tb lying there.
Case: Thermaltake Commander G42 windowed
GPU: GTX 660Ti 2Gb

it lacks a PSU and has the intel stock cooler (never used as it was cooled by an Aio water cooler)

the thing is i play a lot of 7 days to die with my brother, on horde nights it gets laggy for both and as i have this pc doing nothing i figured it could be used as a dedicated game server, now it may be too much for just a game but was wondering if it would be worth the hassle and how would be the best way to aproach using the hardware i already have (expending as little as possible) and to optimize resources for power consumption and such.

Other than that i would try just to sell the whole system but not sure how much i can ask for it or if its even worth it tu buy a PSU to sell it complete.

Any thoughts on the matter would be apreciated i hope its a good discussion.

PD: sorry about my english but its not my native language.

Just sell it. making it run a server is a bit of a waste. Also x58 motherboards go for 150$+ easy as they are heavily sought after. I would say gut it and sell it part by part.

Thanks for your input, i guess it is indeed the smarter choice, it could be a fun project but maybe i should just sell what i can and build a new machine with a home server in mind probably a small form factor pc really quiet and with low power consumption for that project.

Yeah a g4560 and some other cheap stuff is a lot less power hungry and will do what you want no problem.

 

[James Mason]

Take out the GPU and run off the integrated graphics, and/or have it be remote only and remote into it when needed.
It'd be a pretty good server for FPS games, but having other people from outside your home connect to it can be a real hassle and may not work good unless you have a good upload speed (unlikely, need business class internet or very expensive home internet)

 

[Rakanyshu]

Take out the GPU and run off the integrated graphics, and/or have it be remote only and remote into it when needed.
It'd be a pretty good server for FPS games, but having other people from outside your home connect to it can be a real hassle and may not work good unless you have a good upload speed (unlikely, need business class internet or very expensive home internet)

The cpu doesn't have integrated graphics so i'll have to use a gpu card, i can get one low end low power used gpu free from work and probably sell the gtx 660 to get some money for a reliable psu.

My internet is pretty good imo is 140Mb download and 70Mb upload fiber-optic to home, if i put it in dollars is not so expensive around 40/50 per month, the pc config, server config and network config would be a hobby-like thing for me to do on weekends + it would better our game experience.

the only thing is keeping me from doing it at this moment is that it doesn't have a psu i'll have to wait a couple of weeks to be able to buy one, but i don't want to buy anything expensive for that, unless i build a whole new system (that would take months).