I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I’ve been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I’ve got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I’d love some project ideas!

  • monk@lemmy.unboiled.info
    1·
    13 hours ago

    Get rid of the dGPU power comsumption at all costs, as it’s underpowered for anything serious.

    Enable Intel AMT so that you get hardware level remote control, including power control.

    Afet that it’s a now-weak power-hungry CPU with weak cooling, but a decent amount of RAM, so, IDK, a buildserver or a VM host for scenarios when something needs to happen in the background, but latency doesn’t matter.

  • Tiuku@sopuli.xyz
    262·
    6 days ago

    Uptime: 29 seconds

    Don’t worry about it, you’re not in a rush to do anything. How about getting a cup of tea for starters?

  • philluminati@lemmy.ml
    7·
    6 days ago

    I had a 6700k until December just gone. For Linux it can do everything and anything. It’s totally usable! I only gave mine up because of CS2.

    • sntx@lemm.ee
      4·
      6 days ago

      It even has integrated graphics - so throw out that GPU, I have my server with a 6700k pull less than 20W at idle!

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        3·
        6 days ago

        I have 7700 went with fanless case and ssds, 25w underload, 15w idle. 750w PSU doesn’t use its fan until you hit 30% load.

  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    7 days ago

    If you want to get into running a home lab, this world probably be a nice start. So throw proxmox on it and host all the services you want (in containers or VMs). Media server like jellyfin, maybe a nextcloud, storage/Nas services, automate your home with home assistant.

    It has a relatively large amount of memory for that generation of system, but also will probably not exactly sip power for the performance your getting. So if power is expensive where you are, think twice about it.

    • jrgn@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 days ago

      What is the benefit of running it in Proxmox rather than just containers on bare metal?

      • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
        5·
        6 days ago

        Depends what you want to do. If you want only docker containers, it’s the wrong tool. If you want to run a mixture of VMs and LXC containers, it’s literally a management interface made for it. So it’s pretty good at it.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    Jellyfin server? it’ll do hardware transcode handily! Lots of RAM is good for something like TrueNAS since ZFS will use it as a cache.

  • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    6 days ago

    Jellyfin server!!

    You’ll eventually want more storage so LVM is the way to go for making your “drive” easily extendable.

    I use my (very similar, just AMD and with a dGPU) for my Jellyfin server and to selfhost some AI models for experimentation, and I’m working on rolling out matrix synapse because selfhosting

    • wobfan@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Thought the same, although on a second thought Jellyfin would maybe use 1% of the resources of that CPU. But still, I started with Jellyfin and Audiobookshelf on my home server (it has approx. half the computing power of the XPS) and now it has expanded to Immich, LLMs, Nextcloud, and has basically replaced my whole cloud personality. It has a lot of disk space also, so actually - if you don’t need the laptop - set it up as a home server and start with one project on it. I promise it’ll grow fast, haha.

  • fachpersonal@lemmy.ml
    7·
    7 days ago

    With that amount of ram you could make it a hypervisor and host a lot of containers and vms. Maybe proxmox would be a good fit?

  • buwho@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    “same thing we do everyday, pinky. try and take over the world!”

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    Imo too high power consumption for 24/7 operation so I wouldn’t use it that way. If I only had this machine to work with, i’d probably use it as a media server or NAS but turn it on only as needed. Wake on LAN to turn it on and configure it to auto turn off.

  • notthebees@reddthat.com
    5·
    7 days ago

    That’s the last ATX compliant xps PC. I’d swap the wifi card for something else. It has some issues. That bug was patched out afaik.

    (Friend has an xps 8900 and it was a unique experience)

    I’d also find a cheap gpu to put in it. There is a mount for a 92 mm fan in the front. You just have to remove some tape in the front of the PC covering a vent.

    Admittedly my friend games and does dev work on it.

    Also it could do with a repaste.

    As far as I know you can’t upgrade the CPU on that past the 6700.