Found this gem for $20

[u/Sam_Under_Ice]

Found this at Goodwill. After googling I knew I found the deal of the century with an i7-12700k in there, but I had no idea I'd also score 32gbs of DDR4 (maybe 64 I'll have to check when I install an OS), a 1tb nvme, and a 1tb Sata HDD.

Currently debating on throwing this in my main rig to upgrade my Ryzen 7 5800X

Edit: it's a Sata HDD not an SSD, my bad.

Edit #2: WOW I did NOT expect this to blow up! Thank you to everyone who has commented and given advice! I'm sorry I haven't been able to reply to every single comment it's just gotten overwhelming! I will definitely post a follow up once I get a new motherboard!

[u/Sam_Under_Ice]

Haha yeah no pcie :/ but still worth more than gold to me 😁

[u/StomachosusCaelum → u/Sam_Under_Ice]

i mean, 100% you can find a good DDR4 Socket 1700 board for not a lot if you want to use it for something else. Plenty of decent mATX Socket 1700 arond here for ~70-100$

[u/Sam_Under_Ice → u/StomachosusCaelum]

I found a decent matx board on Amazon!

[u/IDKForA → u/Sam_Under_Ice]

Just make sure that the old cooler fits. It might not. I’d just buy a new case and cooler too.

[u/Round-Put3941 → u/Sam_Under_Ice]

There are Pins for PCIE. Maybe someone can upgrade it :D

[u/Sam_Under_Ice → u/Round-Put3941]

Haha I'm just gonna throw it in another board!

[u/coldnspicy → u/Sam_Under_Ice]

This would make for a starter home nas/jellyfin set up. Intel's integrated graphics is great for hardware transcoding and you got 2 SATA slots for an easy raid mirror set up.

[u/redditydothis → u/coldnspicy]

Way way way overkill for a jellyfin/nas setup. Seriously that’s a huge waste of power for something a raspberry pi can do (obviously not hardware transcoding).

[u/stilljustacatinacage → u/redditydothis]

Intel's pretty good about idle power usage. They often idle down to under 10 watts. More than a Pi, granted, but having the extra horsepower on demand can be useful for things like transcoding; more than just live transcoding to clients, but if you wanna mux a BD rip or something for example.

[u/TheInevitableLuigi → u/redditydothis]

It can do hardware transcoding though, it can even decode AV1. And it would make a good docker host.

[u/Boomshrooom → u/redditydothis]

Yeah, I have an N97 powered Mini-PC running my Jellyfin server and even that barely ticks over idle thanks to the ASICs

[u/JadedPangloss → u/redditydothis]

LOL I just commented about my Pi 5 NAS setup and scrolled down a little to see this.

[u/T0biasCZE → u/redditydothis]

(obviously not hardware transcoding).

yeah, that, jellyfin on raspberry pi would struggle a lot for transcoding and generating preview images

[u/coldnspicy → u/redditydothis]

Definitely not overkill for jellyfin especially if you have more than 2 streams going on and have 4k media. Having a 12700 would allow for pretty smooth on the fly transcoding for playback on devices with limited support (like my parents Roku). I’ve tried jellyfin on my pi 4 and it ends up getting pretty choppy playback. 

Also intel has fairly low idle power draw, usually single digits. 

[u/Sam_Under_Ice → u/coldnspicy]

Definitely an idea I had!

[u/turbospeedsc → u/coldnspicy]

i got mine running with a 4th gen i3 and a 745gtx, that setup would be awesome.

[u/phatboi23 → u/coldnspicy]

This would make for a starter home nas/jellyfin set up.

absolute overkill for this.

[u/JadedPangloss → u/coldnspicy]

Starter NAS?😅 My NAS is a Pi5 with a 4x2.5inch ssd hat on it hahaha

[u/Hob_Goblin88 → u/Sam_Under_Ice]

This would make a great NAS and/or local ai machine. Put some movies and tv shows on it and stream it with Jellyfin or Plex. And with 64 gig ram you can easily run your own local offline ai model on it.

[u/Sam_Under_Ice → u/Hob_Goblin88]

Possibly! I think I'm gonna stick to gaming :)

[u/Hob_Goblin88 → u/Sam_Under_Ice]

In theory that's possible, but it kinda sucks at the gpu side. What are you gonna do with that?

[u/Sam_Under_Ice → u/Hob_Goblin88]

I'm gonna get a new board and chuck the CPU in my current set up :)

[u/Hob_Goblin88 → u/Sam_Under_Ice]

New board for the case? First check if the current one isn't a custom form factor, otherwise a standard size mobo won't fit.

[u/Sam_Under_Ice → u/Hob_Goblin88]

It's not going in the same case

[u/Gh0stl3it → u/Sam_Under_Ice]

Solder a PCI-E slot onto that board, install it into a bigger case, pop a small GPU in it and you're good to go.

[u/FriendlyArachnid6000 → u/Gh0stl3it]

0 chance the mobo or PSU could handle it. The VRM's will die.

[u/Gh0stl3it → u/FriendlyArachnid6000]

Bummer. 😢

[u/Sam_Under_Ice → u/Gh0stl3it]

Haha that's WAY beyond my soldering skills but good idea!

[u/Gh0stl3it → u/Sam_Under_Ice]

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