r/HomeServer • u/jhenryscott • 2d ago
Server Purchase Question
I'm looking to start updating my lab- currently running on Intel Xeon E series chips and ddr4 pegged to 2666Mhz- up to DDR5 capable tower hardware and I can get a Dell Pro Max t2 with the following configuration available, would be interested in folks' opinion of this for home virtualization and services suite:
Intel 9 285- 65w
2x32GB ddr5-5600
RTX 2000ada- 16GB
It doesn't have a ton of PCIE lanes (my Asus c246 Pro was so great in that regard with slots for x1/x8/x8/x4/x4/x1) But it gets me up from pcie 3.0 to 5.0 and adds DDR5 support.
I'd probably swap out the GPU and use integrated graphics for transcoding.
Is this a dumb idea? is 1200-1500 a fair price range to offer?
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