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IT’S DONE! – $200 Home Lab Challenge: Part 2
IT’S DONE! – $200 Home Lab Challenge: Part 2
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Nice work! I loved watching this challenge! I really hope you come up with something similar in the near future. Maybe do your own version of the "hairpin challenge" and trade up from that DVD/cup holder to a tiny 1L PC that you could use for a home lab PC 🙂
Changing out that system was kind of a miss. The i7-6700 is more efficient at idle but loses out big time under full load and Skylake is only a bit more efficient than Broadwell. We are only talking about a 1 generation newer CPU (5th vs 6th Gen) on the same 14nm node.
As far as the system itself, it is a massive downgrade. It's smaller but the platform is way more limited in upgrade and expandability options. If you would've scored a similar system but with an i7-8700 instead then that would've been worthwhile but the 6700 is only a Quad-Core and just 1 gen newer than the 2660v4.
You included the gas for the 4 hour trip, but not the meal from the drive thru?!
I joke. This was awesome to watch and reminded me of the janky days of computer markets
My Proxmox-Server is also running on an i7-6700 and works really well for over a year now. It draws around 24W (one 3.5" HDD, one 2.5" HDD, 1 SATA SSD, one NVMe). Love this setup
this makes me wanna google the youtubers in my city lol
There are some things in this video that I wouldn't describe as a small offense as war crimes.
My heart would be so so happy if I would be in your place and build that for 200 bucks.
That's a great home lab I would consider, one thing to crib is the BYOC option that you got in the last otherwise it would be so organized and clean build.
The Thermaltake Case can make a great build.
Hoping for a video with the case
This series was a blast. I love seeing creativity under the constraints of a tight budget. Thanks!
I've washed many motherboards, circuit boards, etc. with water. One company I used to work at was a factory environment. You couldn't believe how many time clocks got stuff spilt on them while powered up by plant employees. First thing I'd so was replace it with a working spare. Then take it back into the office and use kitchen sink to scrub the circuit board with a tooth brush. Mainly I just cleaned all the corrosion from the spills off the board. Let it dry for few days and 99% of time they would be back to life. I had to explain to lots of people that said "you can't get water on electronics"… I had to explain the water doesn't hurt circuit boards by itself…. the mixture of water and being plugged into power does.
Do you have a go to motherboard brand if you want a cheap low power server?
I feel like this would work better with a Bingo Card. Cause then you can look at 3 different axes and decide your plan, rather than scrapping and changing around your plans partway through
I loved this challenge, the solution for the BYOC is fantastic, only one thing: the server in the top part will get covered by dust very soon, it would have been better to put it under, near the ups, and dig some holes in the wooden "backplate"… But hey, time and moneys were limited, you did it very well!
Highest moment of the channel is the dvd drive for a cup holder 😂
Where is that SSD from? Bliksem is 'n swear word in Afrikaans, and I don't know of its use anywhere else in the world, that's hilarious.
I would love to see another challenge. My idea to mix it up would be to have a base goal the same as you did this time, but instead of wheel spins you have bonus goals similar to some of your wheel spins that if you meet them then you get extra budget. For example using ZFS gets you an extra $10 budget.
That core v21 I have one of those and if it has all its bits is a great nas case imo. Esp since it comes with 2 3.5 bays and like 3 2.5 bays. Wish it was a bit more compact but it's a really nice case imo with all that fan space ❤😂
Well in my city for 200 dollars I would get a i5 6th gen or i5 4th gen that too mini pc like optiplex 3040 lmao (refurbished ofc) well people seem to sell high prices for old pieces 😅
I love the end result. Thanks for doing it.
Bro did you calculate the gas cost delivering the parts 😅😂
Either way nice build ❤
Great series although the BYOC was a shame, the Thermaltake case would have been decent rather than the slightly weird old wooden side table 😂
HP Elitedesk!
If you ever repeat something like this, you might want to consider a negative, a positive, and a neutral wheel. You then both spin one or two each at the beginning, so it avoids any last-minute upsets.
Pretty sure it's build your own case not bring your own case
It's not jank without duct tape, also do pc repair for 6 months you will see some things that make that pc look clean lol
Entertaining and hopefully you do another series in the future.
I would love to see that you are doing the challenge together, e.g. best possible power efficient Proxmox Server for max 300$
For BYOC: 2x IKEA Lack tables mounted together make a great 19 rack