#b450 — Public Fediverse posts

I think it's impressive that my #homelab server is still alive and well after 3 years and building it using cheap/used consumer (non-server) parts.

The CPU especially is like SUPER solid - I bought a used #AMD Ryzen 7 1700 back in 2021 for 589.99 MYR (~126 USD) - it had 1 year warranty but meh, the seller def did not entertain my request to have it replaced when I received it with bent pins. I was ready to just give up on it but decided wth I'll just try to bend the pins right back and it's worked perfectly since then.

I still have a Ryzen 7 3700X + an #MSI #B450 MATX board lying around after I had upgraded to a Ryzen 7 5700X + #ASUS #B550 ITX combo, thinking maybe I could upgrade the server with them, but idk if it's even needed. The only bottleneck on my server really is just the 4 DIMM slots on the mobo that have been maxed out to 64GB DDR4 RAM (which I also had bought for cheap) and so that CPU/Mobo upgrade won't help with that.

I'm really glad I went this route cos having that homelab server has been a gamechanger to my lifestyle since I essentially have a perfect playground I could waste my precious time on. Now really I just need to devise a way to move from #VMware #ESXi to #Proxmox but I'm too lazy to figure out how I could do so without losing all of my VMs/#Kubernetes cluster.

I think it's impressive that my #homelab server is still alive and well after 3 years and building it using cheap/used consumer (non-server) parts.

The CPU especially is like SUPER solid - I bought a used #AMD Ryzen 7 1700 back in 2021 for 589.99 MYR (~126 USD) - it had 1 year warranty but meh, the seller def did not entertain my request to have it replaced when I received it with bent pins. I was ready to just give up on it but decided wth I'll just try to bend the pins right back and it's worked perfectly since then.

I still have a Ryzen 7 3700X + an #MSI #B450 MATX board lying around after I had upgraded to a Ryzen 7 5700X + #ASUS #B550 ITX combo, thinking maybe I could upgrade the server with them, but idk if it's even needed. The only bottleneck on my server really is just the 4 DIMM slots on the mobo that have been maxed out to 64GB DDR4 RAM (which I also had bought for cheap) and so that CPU/Mobo upgrade won't help with that.

I'm really glad I went this route cos having that homelab server has been a gamechanger to my lifestyle since I essentially have a perfect playground I could waste my precious time on. Now really I just need to devise a way to move from #VMware #ESXi to #Proxmox but I'm too lazy to figure out how I could do so without losing all of my VMs/#Kubernetes cluster.

I think it's impressive that my #homelab server is still alive and well after 3 years and building it using cheap/used consumer (non-server) parts.

The CPU especially is like SUPER solid - I bought a used #AMD Ryzen 7 1700 back in 2021 for 589.99 MYR (~126 USD) - it had 1 year warranty but meh, the seller def did not entertain my request to have it replaced when I received it with bent pins. I was ready to just give up on it but decided wth I'll just try to bend the pins right back and it's worked perfectly since then.

I still have a Ryzen 7 3700X + an #MSI #B450 MATX board lying around after I had upgraded to a Ryzen 7 5700X + #ASUS #B550 ITX combo, thinking maybe I could upgrade the server with them, but idk if it's even needed. The only bottleneck on my server really is just the 4 DIMM slots on the mobo that have been maxed out to 64GB DDR4 RAM (which I also had bought for cheap) and so that CPU/Mobo upgrade won't help with that.

I'm really glad I went this route cos having that homelab server has been a gamechanger to my lifestyle since I essentially have a perfect playground I could waste my precious time on. Now really I just need to devise a way to move from #VMware #ESXi to #Proxmox but I'm too lazy to figure out how I could do so without losing all of my VMs/#Kubernetes cluster.

I think it's impressive that my #homelab server is still alive and well after 3 years and building it using cheap/used consumer (non-server) parts.

The CPU especially is like SUPER solid - I bought a used #AMD Ryzen 7 1700 back in 2021 for 589.99 MYR (~126 USD) - it had 1 year warranty but meh, the seller def did not entertain my request to have it replaced when I received it with bent pins. I was ready to just give up on it but decided wth I'll just try to bend the pins right back and it's worked perfectly since then.

I still have a Ryzen 7 3700X + an #MSI #B450 MATX board lying around after I had upgraded to a Ryzen 7 5700X + #ASUS #B550 ITX combo, thinking maybe I could upgrade the server with them, but idk if it's even needed. The only bottleneck on my server really is just the 4 DIMM slots on the mobo that have been maxed out to 64GB DDR4 RAM (which I also had bought for cheap) and so that CPU/Mobo upgrade won't help with that.

I'm really glad I went this route cos having that homelab server has been a gamechanger to my lifestyle since I essentially have a perfect playground I could waste my precious time on. Now really I just need to devise a way to move from #VMware #ESXi to #Proxmox but I'm too lazy to figure out how I could do so without losing all of my VMs/#Kubernetes cluster.

I think it's impressive that my #homelab server is still alive and well after 3 years and building it using cheap/used consumer (non-server) parts.

The CPU especially is like SUPER solid - I bought a used #AMD Ryzen 7 1700 back in 2021 for 589.99 MYR (~126 USD) - it had 1 year warranty but meh, the seller def did not entertain my request to have it replaced when I received it with bent pins. I was ready to just give up on it but decided wth I'll just try to bend the pins right back and it's worked perfectly since then.

I still have a Ryzen 7 3700X + an #MSI #B450 MATX board lying around after I had upgraded to a Ryzen 7 5700X + #ASUS #B550 ITX combo, thinking maybe I could upgrade the server with them, but idk if it's even needed. The only bottleneck on my server really is just the 4 DIMM slots on the mobo that have been maxed out to 64GB DDR4 RAM (which I also had bought for cheap) and so that CPU/Mobo upgrade won't help with that.

I'm really glad I went this route cos having that homelab server has been a gamechanger to my lifestyle since I essentially have a perfect playground I could waste my precious time on. Now really I just need to devise a way to move from #VMware #ESXi to #Proxmox but I'm too lazy to figure out how I could do so without losing all of my VMs/#Kubernetes cluster.