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Cake day: March 8th, 2025
  • HiTekRedNek@lemm.eetoMemes@sopuli.xyz•RIP obsolete techEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    I’m about to drop a supermicro Xeon board plus an E3-1275 and 32G of ECC ram into the guts of this old Optiplex 790 mini tower I have. (i3 2100, so a generation newer, and a Xeon instead of an i3)

    I plan to eventually get a better case but for now this is fine. Right now it’s running Plex media server on FreeBSD on bare metal, but I’m planning to swap to proxmox once I get the new board installed.

    Unfortunately that won’t be for another week. While the board will be here today, it is a little more power hungry than the old system, and I’m already pushing the OEM 375W PSU with 5 drives (SATA SSD and 4 7200rpm SAS drives) so I also have a PSU coming. But that is not expected until middle of next week.

  • HiTekRedNek@lemm.eetoMemes@sopuli.xyz•RIP obsolete techEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Last week isn’t really that long ago. Going through my mom’s old things and found a PC she bought new back in 2013. A Dell Optiplex 790 with a dvdrw in it.

    I just happened to have a couple of blanks so I verified that it worked before pulling it out and using it as an external drive. Works that way as well on my much newer Ryzen 5800x build in a case with no 5.25" bays. (Or externally accessed 3.5s for that matter. No external bays of any sort other than some USB ports on the front.)

    My 2006 Honda also has a 6 disc changer and it sounds better than the Bluetooth adapter I connected to it. (It is wired to the back of the factory sound system, but Bluetooth audio just sounds flat to me, even on the best speakers)