u/Fit-Reward9420

I have a couple old school xeon servers I just don’t need any more. One is a supermicro x9 mb with 2x e5 2697 v2’s and 256 gb of ddr3 ram in a 4u case with a new 750 watt msi psu. The other is a single socket supermicro with another e5 2697 v2 and 128 gb of ddr3 ram in a 3u case. Love to see a new home labber get some use out of these. I spent a lot putting the together and don’t expect to get it back. But they just sit powered off, taking up space in my rack. I have some extras that could go with them. I have an extra supermicro x9 DRF-I dual socket mb also. And some extra v2 Xeons. Great proxmox boxes

I have a couple old school xeon servers I just don’t need any more. One is a supermicro x9 mb with 2x e5 2697 v2’s and 256 gb of ddr3 ram in a 4u case with a new 750 watt msi psu. The other is a single socket supermicro with another e5 2697 v2 and 128 gb of ddr3 ram in a 3u case. Love to see a new home labber get some use out of these. I spent a lot putting the together and don’t expect to get it back. But they just sit powered off, taking up space in my rack. I have some extras that could go with them. I have an extra supermicro x9 DRF-I dual socket mb also. And some extra v2 Xeons. Great proxmox boxes

I have a couple old school xeon servers I just don’t need any more. One is a supermicro x9 mb with 2x e5 2697 v2’s and 256 gb of ddr3 ram in a 4u case with a new 750 watt msi psu. The other is a single socket supermicro with another e5 2697 v2 and 128 gb of ddr3 ram in a 3u case. Love to see a new home labber get some use out of these. I spent a lot putting the together and don’t expect to get it back. But they just sit powered off, taking up space in my rack. I have some extras that could go with them. I have an extra supermicro x9 DRF-I dual socket mb also. And some extra v2 Xeons. Great proxmox boxes

Homelab/server newbie. Start with I’m clueless about most of this. I have an eclectic collection of old computers. Just put together a 4u case ryzen 7 “nas” 40 tb spinning hdds , an hp z820 with 2xeon E5 2697 V2’s and 256 gb ram, 3 x old Macpro 6,1’s pretty maxed out (Linux not Mac OS)an m4 Mac mini , iMac Pro with 128 gb ram, M2 Max studio , and a couple old dell desktops. I’m putting together another 4U X99 2x E5 2697 v4 18 core 256 gb ram box. Most of these are 10 gbe lan.
So back to the title of my post. I have proxmox on the ryzen 7 nas and only omv installed as a vm. As fun as learning that I don’t know much about Linux yet is, I really have no end goal in mind here. The typical jellyfin, home automation , etc setup really doesn’t interest me. My curiosity is how people interface with their proxmox nodes. This latest box will have an rtx 3090 in it so I can dabble in LLM. I’m planning a windows vm and probably a cachy os vm. The browser interface leaves me kinda meh. Even though this box is old Xeon tech , it would be nice to connect to a couple 32 inch monitors and have a better user experience than novnc and a browser tab in Firefox. Looking for other options or just not using a hypervisor and install an OS baremetal and call it a day.