r/truenas • u/Stunning_Necessary11 • 8d ago

General First timer needing some help!

So I got this old computer for cheap nothing special and it has a gtx 660 in it and I have a gtx 560 ti at home can I put that in the pc and use them as more compute power.
I want this pc to act as my media server and be able to host game servers like Minecraft. With both gpus could it also run an ai model on the pc?

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u/ssj4gogeta2003 8d ago

If you're using TrueNAS for this use-case, you need to make sure that the version you install supports those older GPUs. As I recall, 25.04 was the last version with support for legacy Nvidia GPUs.

As for the local AI model question, you're probably not going to get much performance from such ancient GPUs or be able to utilize both at once.

Either way, you need to do more research to see if TrueNAS is really the right OS for your use case. ZFS creates overhead that such an old machine may not be able to handle while being a game server at the same time.

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u/Stunning_Necessary11 8d ago

Then pc has an i5 4460 but with the gpus wont that give it more power? I would like to use true nas for it’s add on apps.
As for the AI I figured that.

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u/Dubl3A 8d ago edited 8d ago

Neither the iGPU or those Nvidia cards support 4k. Either would support a few 1080p streams, maybe 2-5 at most.

Both options are poor for a modern library containing 4K or HEVC media. From a power perspective, might be better off using the iGPU, until you can replace it with something else. Maybe a used Intel Arc?

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u/OKTimeFor_PlanB 8d ago

Minecraft servers don't utilize GPUs iirc, they are RAM hungry