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Need advice on a one pc home (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Cikos@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi, so I want to building a pc for a home server (?) or NAS. I dont really know whats the most appropriate term but what I intend to build is a one pc for my household. currently my requirement is one work 'pc' capable of heavy 3d modeling one light work pc. two 4k gaming tvs. (they most likely wont be used at the same time)

my knowledge of technical stuff is bretty basic so please be patient with me.

before, i used my steam deck to stream my work pc using parsec but i thought i just want to jump all in on linux and using vm to use more niche 3d softwares.

my budget is flexible as long as i dont need to use enterprise hardware. also i heard nvidia is not good for linux so i'd like to confirm if that is still the case as im thinking of using 5090 if not, i hope amd releases an equivalent capable card or if any according my quick research suggest.

as for linux, the only distro (?) i ever used is the steam deck one and i love it. im not a programmer or even remotely capable one so i'd like to avoid anything that has to be manually typing commands at terminal but im open to surface level tinkering.

thank you for your time

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[–] blinx615@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I got used EPYC stuff and a 3090, but basically the same template; just a few more resources.

CPU: AMD EPYC 7542 (16 cores / 32 threads)
Motherboard: Supermicro H12SSL-i
Memory: Samsung DDR4 8×32GB
GPU: EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 24GB

However, I haven't run into some of the issues you had. With the proxmox host on wired ethernet and my laptop on 5GHz wifi from about 10ft away from the access point I can easily play Rocket League with no noticeable latency, 1440p 120Hz. I'm using sunshine on a windows VM and moonlight on Fedora. It did, indeed, take a crapload of fiddling and I consider myself pretty adept at these things, but it can be done. :D

I also swap the GPU between two VMs. I have a Ubuntu VM I use for AI workloads for fiddling around. On that one, I just ssh in and the GPU is 100% utilized for AI. Planning to add another GPU in the future (or a few).

Can't speak to remote connections, but my previous experience with cloud providers tells me it might be good enough for slow paced games, but it will fail horribly on anything really latency dependent. Best case scenario is the latency is off by just enough to make you lose your mind, or worse, you get use to the weird remote latency and then get all screwed up when you play at home.